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arched at tlie base, thence straight to the apex ; exterior margin very convex, 

 scalloped, anal angle obtnsely pointed ; precostal vein bent outward at the middle ; 

 subcostals and radial well separated. Palpi ascending, hairy above, scaled below, 

 apex somewhat slender ; antennce stout, with a lengthened spatulate club ; eyes 

 naked. Type. — B. Schrenckii. — Bremeria Schrencldi (Adolias Schrenckii, Menetries, 

 Bull. Acad. Petr. (1859) p. 215. Schrenck's Eeisen Amur Lande ii. Lep. p. 31, 

 pi. 3, fig. 2, ? (1859). Apatura Schrenckii, Bremer, Lep. Ost-Siberia, p. 19 (1864). 

 Leech, Butt. China, etc., p. 154. Habitat. Amur Land. Corea. 



Genus Athymodes. — Male. Foretving elongate, subtriangular ; costa very 

 slightly arched, apex obtuse, exterior margin oblique, uneven; posterior margin 

 straight ; first subcostal emitted at fully one-fourth before end of the cell, second 

 at a short distance beyond the end of the cell ; discocellulars short, upper 

 outwardly oblique, middle concave, lower absent ; cell open. Hindwing short, 

 broadly ovate ; exterior margin convex, slightly scalloped ; precostal short, 

 excurved ; radial emitted from lower subcostal at some distance from its base. 

 Palpi laxly clothed, apex short, broad, tip pointed ; antennae with a somewhat broad 

 spatulate club; eyes naked. Allied to Mimathyma. Tyiie. — A. Nycteis. — Athymodes 

 Nydeis (Athyma Nycteis, Menetries, Bull. Acad. Petr. 1859, p. 215 ; Schrenck's 

 Reisen Amur Lande, ii. p. 28, pi. 2, fig. 11, i (1859). Habitat. Amur Land. — 

 Athymodes Cassiope (Athyma Cassiope, Menetries, I.e. p. 214 (1859) ; Schrenck's 

 Reisen, ii. p. 27, pi. 2, fig. 10 (1859). Leech, Butt. China, etc., p. 155 (1892). 

 Habitat. Amur Land. 



Genus CHITORIA. 



Imago. — Male. Forewing triangular ; costa very slightly arched, apex some- 

 what falcate and obtuse, exterior margin concave in the middle, edge almost even ; 

 first and second subcostal branches emitted before end of the cell ; discocellulars 

 bent inward close to subcostal, lower end acute, radials from angle and lower end ; 

 cell short, broad, open ; median veinlets wide apart, lower median nearly opposite 

 discocellulars. Hindiving short, triangular, produced posteriorly, exterior margin 

 oblique, slightly uneven ; cell open ; precostal vein long, much curved. Body 

 robust ; palpi rather stout ; antennae slender and with a short broad spatular club ; 

 eyes naked. 



Type. — C. sordida. 



CHITORIA SORDIDA (Plate 192, fig. 2, 2a, h, ^ 9)- 

 Apatura sordida, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 7G5, pi. 41, fig. 2, (J. de Niceville, Butt, of India, 



etc., ii. p. 52 (1886). 

 Apatura Phaacia, Hewitson, Exot. Butt. iv. Ap. pi. 1, fig. 1, 2, ? (1869). 



