Entomol. Mitteilungen III, 1914 Nr. 7/8. 248 



but as I am not yet certain, I prefer to use the safer name, too much 

 niischief having alrea,dy been done by hasty JuniiDings in this difficult 

 genus. Walker's ty]ie of ahsconditaria, froni Foo-chow, agrees iDerfectly 

 with the Forinosan form. Recorded from Formosa by Matsumura (Cat. 

 Ins. Japon. Lep. p. 120) as remotata, no doiil)t quoting Hampson; 

 specimens from the Island have for many years stood in the British 

 Musenm collection. 



*3r). Pty<*hopo(la siiiicata Waik. ^ ?, Kankau (Koshun), April, 

 June and July 1!)12; 1 +, Kosempo, June 1912. Besides Walker's type 

 from Foo-chow and a .^ from Ting-hai (Fokien) I know only the Formosan 

 specimens. Related to muricata Hufn. in structure and colonring but 

 much smaller, rather narrower-winged, the rosy purple colour disposed 

 in more regulär lines, though these vary in width and there is some- 

 times a Suggestion of a rosy suffusion. 



*36. Ptychopoda paraula Prout, nov. sp. — r^, 17 mm. 8ize, shape, 

 coloration and anteimal structure as'in impe.ra Butl., or with the ground- 

 cojour very slightly lighter, the hindwing perhaps not quite so fully 

 rounded; hindleg with the femur and tibia longer-haired. Forewing 

 with costal and subterminal reddish or purplish bordering about as 

 in im.pexa, the latter, however, not quite so close to tke termen; reddish 

 discal dot stronger than in impexa, a fine, slightly sinuous median line 

 touching it distally, antemedian and postmedian lines present as dots 

 on the veins, fringe with reddish dots at vein-ends. Hindwing with 

 antemedian line, cell-dot and postmedian series of dots; subterminal 

 shade starting near the apex, sinuous, receding from the termen, dis- 

 appearing about the middle of the wing, a terminal reddish shade from 

 apex to 2"'* or 3'"'^ radial, a reddish spot at tornus; fringe-dots only 

 well developed in anterior half of wing. Underside also rather more 

 strongly marked tha-i in impcm. Alikang, ()ctol)er ]!)()!), one example 

 only. 



*37. IMychopoda invalida IJutl. ( ?)• A small, worn?from Alikang, 

 September 1909, may be provisionally referred to this species, which 

 appears to bc distributed in Japan, Korea and Eastern to Central China. 

 A larger ? from Suisharyo, 22 December 1911, also worn, may be a 

 weakly marked aberration of the same, though the forewing is more 

 pointed than usual. A small, more reddish tinged S from Alikang, 

 October 1909, I am also inclined, according to the structure, to regard 

 as an abcrrant invalida, l)ut more extensive and better material is 

 re(piired for the elucidation of these forms. 



*3S. .Viiisodes pallida Moore. — 1 J, 1 9- Alikang, October and 

 November 1909. Median shade weaker than in most of the forms, the 



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