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15. Genus: Xerice Walk. 



Antenna of cJ with moderately long pectinations, these but little shorter in $ or the antenna of $ seti- 

 form. Palpi porrect, reaching above head, with short end-segment. Proboscis vestigial. Thorax with a high 

 crest of scales. Abdomen long cylindrical, extending % beyond the anal angle of hindwing. Legs rather slender, 

 hind tibia with mid- and end-spurs. Forewing long, but rather broad, the costal margin almost straight, apex 

 slightly rounded, distal margin moderately oblique and curved. Hindwing broadly rounded. — The genus 

 was based by Walker on a North-American species. Since then 3 species have become known from East Asia, 

 all of which agree with one another in an essential characteristic in the marking, a dark longitudinal stripe on 

 the forewing edged with a light tone on the hind side *). 



N. davidi Oberth. (= bidentata Leech nee Walk.) (45b). Forewing dark brown-grey, the distal portion davidi. 

 of the costal area light silver-grey traversed by 2 abbreviated blackisli transverse bands ; the dark ground deepest 

 on the posterior half of the wing, here sharply contrasting with a white longitudinal stripe which runs from the 

 base to the distal margin, the stripe bearing a black spot before and beyond the middle; hind margin again 

 dark. Hindwing grey-brown. — North China, Ussuri district and Japan. 



N. bipartita Bull. (45b, as partita). Similar to davidi, somewhat darker, the forewing divided into 2 biparlita. 

 equal halves, the costal half dark, its boundary quite straight; in the broad white longitudinal stripe a rectangu- 

 lar red-brown central spot; in the white costal spot only one dark transverse band. — upina Alph. (45 b), from upitia. 

 North Chma, has a somewhat darker ground, the costal half of the forewing is bounded by an intensely black 

 longitudinal stripe with which the red-brown median spot is merged together; the white colour of the hind- 

 marginal half is reduced to a border of the black longitudinal stripe. — Japan (typical form). North China, 

 Tibet (Amdo). 



N. leechi Stgr. (45 c). Crest on thorax light red-brown, patagia ashy grey. The whole hindmarginal leecM. 

 area of the forewing whitish, only traversed by a narrow blackish transverse band ; the dark ground of the costal 

 area has a posterior sharply defined boundary which bears close before the centre a small triangular projection; 

 in this costal area a slightly dentate, narrow, black half band beyond the middle. Hindwing grey-brown. ^ 

 Southern Amurland. 



16. Genus: Cvliiphisia Bdv. 



Antennae pectinate to the apex in both sexes, the branches long in <^, short in ?. Palpi short, obliquely 

 downturned. Proboscis vestigial. Eyes naked, ocelli present. Hair on thorax and legs dense and long, on ab- 

 domen short. Hind tibia with end-spurs only. Forewing rather broad, with the distal margin moderately 

 curved, hind angle not sharply defined; no areole; vena 6 together with stalk of 7, 8, 9, 10 from upper angle 

 of cell. Veins 6 and 7 of hindwing on a very long stalk, the free portions of these veins only about half as 

 long as the stalk. — Larva naked, only bearing very few minute hairs, smooth, without tubercles, with 16 feet. 

 Pupa short and stout, with round anal end, flattened dorso-ventrally.— In Europe this genus is only represent- 

 ed by a single species, which occurs nearly throughout the Palearctic Region. A second species has only lately 

 been described from Japan; several species in America. 



G. crenata Esp. (= crenosa Hbn.) (46 d). Ashy grey. Forewing with a blackish transverse band before crenata. 

 and another beyond the centre, the former almost straight, the latter dentate and distally pale-edged; the 

 area between the two bands often darkend in the ?; a submarginal dentate band proximally light-edged. Cen- 

 tral Europe, sporadical and rare, occurring as far as Southern Scandinavia and North Italy, Bukovina, South 

 Russia. April, May. — The East-Asiatic form, from the Amur and Ussuri districts, which we call amurensis amurensis. 

 Stgr. i. I. (46 d), is darker, blackish grey, with the light edges to the postdiscal and submarginal bands sharper. 

 — Larva bright green, with yellow glossy head, two dorsal longitudinal lines whitish, between them a vivid 

 dark red spot on thoracical segments 2 and 3 and on abdominal segments 3 to 9. June and again in the autumn 

 on species of Poplar, lives and pupates between leaves spun together. Pupa black-brown, feebly glossy. 



G. japonica Wileman. Body dark brown. Forewing grey-brown M'ith light discal spot; subbasal band japonica. 

 as well as a pre- and postdiscal one sharply marked, blackish, edged with light grey, dentate or undulate; a 

 pale submarginal suffusion. Hindwing rather lighter than the forewing, with a pale double median band. — 

 Japan (Yezzo). 



17. Genus: Dryiuoiiia Hbn. 



Antennae of (J with rather long pectinations to the apex, of $ simple, setiform, only bearing short brist- 

 les on the underside. Palpi short, hardly reaching above the hair of the frons. Proboscis vestigial. Eyes naked; 



*) In connection with this genus we figure a species of Nociuidae which Leech had placed with the Notodonts as 

 Edema niviUnea. Tliis species, however, is identical wilh Obeethuek's Dichugyris jankoicskii, which is separated by Stau- 

 BiNGER und Rebel as Stenoloba. The insect is dealt with vol. 3, p. 273 of this work and its J figured, 1. c, plate 51, 1. 



