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even Spitzbergen. It must surely have also a more consider- 

 able Asiatic range, since it is found in -Japan. 



Genus 'J. MINOA. 



Antenna) short, simple, aud very slender ; palpi small and 

 slender ; head roughened ; thorax and abdomen smooth, 

 short and thin ; fore wings trigonate, short and blunt, rather 

 densely scaled aud unicolorons ; hind wings elongate ; all 

 smoothly margined ; veins 7 and fc! joined to the end of the 

 cell. 



A\ e have but one species. 



1. M. euphorbiata, Schijf.; murinata, Slniid. Cut. — 

 Expanse al.iout f inch (18 to 22 m.m.). All the wings 

 smooth, silkj', pale greyish-brown or tawny-brown, without 

 markings. 



Antennas of the male short, sim])le, thickly ciliated, brown; 

 palpi minute, dull brown ; face convex, smooth, silkj' reddish- 

 brown ; head also reddish-brown; thorax smooth, tawny- 

 brown ; abdomen of the same colour faintly barred with 

 paler ; lateral and anal tufts small, paler. Fore wings short, 

 blunt, somewhat trigonate ; costa faintly arched at the base 

 and apex, straight between ; apex bluntly augulated ; hind 

 margin nearly straight, and somewhat perpendicular, but 

 rounded ofi' at the anal angle ; dorsal margin rather full ; 

 colour uniform silky greyish orange-brown, more tinged with 

 grey at the base ; devoid of markings ; cilia concolorous. 

 Hind wings rather elongated, evenly rounded behind ; of a 

 faintly paler shade of the same colour, though in some lights 

 appearing decidedly paler, especially so toward the base ; 

 devoid of markings ; cilia of the same colour. Female quite 

 similar. 



Undersides of all the wings, the body, and legs, rather 

 yellower orange-brown than the upper side ; more ochreous 

 toward the costa of the fore wings. 



