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smaller, often obsolescent before the margin, the dot at the base of the forewing very small, almost in- 

 visible. On the underside the forewing is more or less suffused with black. From the Altai to the mouth 

 of the Amur and t'orea, on Askold, and also extending far to the south, over South China into the 

 Malayan territories, ab. leacrita Swinh. (11 a), with more distinct dots above and without the sooty leacrila. 

 suffusion beneath on the disc of the forewing, comes from .Japan and Southern China. The moths in 

 July, locally apparently not rare (according to Graeser for instance at Blagoveshchensk). 



S. acerba Lccfh (It a). At once distinguished from flava by the colouring, which is bright pink acerba. 

 instead of yellow; hindwing and abdomen pale pink, thorax and forewing dark pink; the latter bears 

 5 dark stripes beyond the cell on the veins, which often connect the discal rows of spots. From Mupin 

 in West China. 



S. rhodophila Walk. (11 a). Body orange, wings tinged with rose-red, especially at the margin, rhodophila. 

 sooty suffusions, varying in extent and shape, on the disc of the forewing between the veins at the base 

 and before the marginal area. Amurland and North China, southwards to Shanghai, as well as in 

 Corea and Japan, where it occurs both on the Main Island and on Hokkaido (Matsumdra). Seems only 

 to occur singly. ]\lany authors place this species with Miltochrista, on account both of its rose-red colour 

 and small size and of the shape of the wings, in which this species differs from the preceding. 



S. torrens Butl. (11 b). Size and shape as in the preceding, but thorax and forewing briglit dark ton-ens. 

 pink, the blackish suffusions being reduced on the forewing to two undulating shadow}^ lines, which 

 traverse the disc. Leech, whom Matsumura follows in his Catalogue, considers torrents a variety of the 

 preceding species. 



S. palmata Moore (11 !>) only touches the Palearctic region at the southern frontier of Kashmir, palmala. 

 size almost as in micans; jjalo yellow, with dark markings, the forewing bearing two basal dots one below 

 the other, and then a transverse row of three large black dots, which have sometimes a steely blue gloss. 

 The distal portion of the basal half of the wing is without markings, but the outer half of the forewing 

 is covered with a network of radial streaks which leave a broad outer margin and stand close together. 

 Before the outer mai'gin of the hindwing there are also traces of such radial stripes. First described from Bengal. 



2. Genus: £iig-oa ]r«/fc. 



This genus consists of a dozen small, grey, weakly spotted and banded species, which are mostly 

 very like each other, and inhabit chiefly the tropics of the Old World. Only two forms, which are closely 

 allied, reach the Palearctic region in Eastern Asia. Head broad, with flat frons; eyes far apart; tongue 

 strong; palpi short, erect; antennae filiform, almost imperceptibly dentate in the ^. Thorax short, stout. 

 Legs strong, tibial spurs moderately long. Abdomen sometimes projecting a little beyond the anal angle. 

 Forewing narrower and more pointed than in the preceding, usually mouse-grey or brown-grey, the Pale- 

 arctic forms slightly marked with black. Nothing is as yet known of the early stages. 



E. taeniata Flxs. (11 b). Forewing with a few fine costal dots on a slate-grey ground; before and taeniata. 

 beyond the median area irregular lines, here and there interrupted or thickened into spots. From the 

 Bureja Mts. and Corea. 



E. grisea Butl. (11 b). Little larger than the preceding. Forewing also slate-grey, 2 black dots near grisca. 

 the liase, and 2 hnes separated into spots beyond the middle and before the margin. From Japan; 

 according to Matsqmura also in Corea. 



3. Genus: Psiloi»epla Turn. 



Closely allied to the preceding genera, and united with them by Hampson, but with nuich 

 narrower and more densely scaled wings, and altogether more strongly built. Nearly all 6 species inhabit 

 the Himalayas, and all belong to the Indo-Australian fauna; only two of them occur in Tibet. 



P. fasciata Moore (= promelaena Hamps.) (11 b). Forewing dark smoky brown with the exception fasciata. 

 of the outer third and an elongate spot at the base of the inner margin. Behind the cell, this colour 

 is extended marginally into a tooth. The marginal portion, which is bounded by a yellowish transverse 

 line accompanying the tooth, is lighter and variegated with j^ellowish colour. Hindwing slightly trans- 

 parent dark brown; a narrow shadowy line runs through the disc, parallel with the outer margin. From 

 Yatung in Tibet. 



P. margaritacea Walk. (= margaritaria Walk.) is similar in markings to Nud. mundana, but '."^'Jj'^Cp"' 

 without the distinct cellular spot, and the ground-colour of the forewing is more or less pure white or 

 yellowish white. Yatung, also in Sikkim. 



