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dot in a black ring; a black somewhat lunulate terminal line; fringe pale grey, rayed with black; hindwing 

 fuscous grey with outer line and a broad terminal border darker; in W. Cliina and the Ussm-i district a dark 

 form occurs — ^subsp. suiiusa suh.sj). nov. (56a) in which the whole forewing is clouded with dark grey; the type suffusa. 

 form is from Japan only; specimens from Corea and Amurland appear in a way intermediate, being generally 

 darker, but with a quite narrow paler median fascia, = subsp. angustimedia .subsp. nov. (56 b) ; these are smaller angusti- 

 than typical anipliata. '»''^^- 



P. intensa Butl. (= octogesima ButJ. nee Hbn., angustata Stgr.) (56 b). Smaller than ampliata Btlr. intensa. 

 but similarly marked, except that the outer of the four lines forming the inner band is obliquely curved out- 

 wards from costa instead of starting vertically; the two outer of the 4 lines running more wavy and oblique 

 throughout; also the orbicular stigma is larger, black-centred, and does not touch the reniform, which in its 

 loM'-er lobe is marked with a round black spot ; Butle r's type from Japan ; Staudinge r's angustata from Amurland. 



7. Genus: 1*arag;iioriiiia gen. nov. 



Differs from all the allied genera of the Family in the antennae of the ^ being subserrate, with short 

 sessile fascicles of cilia, not smooth and lamellate; in the sliorter hairy palpi, with small, almost hidden, terminal 

 segment, and especially in the presence of an areole in the forewing, vein 9 anastomosing with the stalk of 7, 8; 

 vein 6 rises from angle of cell and is not stalked with 7, 8. Type P. fuscescens Hmps. from India. 



P. brunnea Leech. Forewing light fuscous brown, the basal area greyer; subbasal hne broadly black, brumiea. 

 emitting a jM'ojection outwards below the median vein; four other lines black and waved; the first curved, 

 the second nearly straight, the intervening space brown; third line double, fourth excurved towards middle, 

 the intervening space likewise brown, subterminal line dusky, waved, followed on costa by a triangrdar brown- 

 ish grey patch, edged externally with black; stigmata iiidistinct, the reniform with its inner edge black; 

 hindwing fuscous. Described from a single $ taken at Pu-tsu-fong, W. China. The species so closely resembles 

 fuscescens Hmps. that it may safely be referred to Paragnorima. 



8. Genus: Parapsestis gen. nov. 



Differs from Palimpsestis Hbn. in vein 6 of forewing rising from upper end of cell instead of being stalked 

 with 7, 8; antennae in both sexes lamellate; except for this it agrees entirely with Paragnorima Warr. Type 

 P. argenteopicta Oberth. 



P. argenteopicta Oberth. (49 g). Forewing pale shining grey more or less dusted with darker and tra- argentco- 

 versed by wavy dark lines ; three white spots at base of wing, often obscured, surrounded by dark scaling ; three P'cta. 

 dark lines, the outermost angled outwards in submedian fold, and filled in with dark grey, form the inner band, 

 which is preceded by a pale dark-edged line; outer band formed of 3 or 4 obscurely marked lunulate dentate 

 lines, outcurved between vein 6 and the submedian fold, filled in with dark only at costa; the teeth of these 

 lines form dark dashes on veins alternating with pale ones; subterminal line white interrupted into spots, pre- 

 ceded by blackish wedge shaped marks and followed by a dark shade ; an obscure dark streak from apex ; ter- 

 minal line thick, lunulate; fringe grey mottled with darker; stigmata rarely plain, grey with darker outlines; 

 the orbicular round, the reniform oblong; hindwing dingy grey, with a paler outer band and narrow terminal 

 space beyond the siibterminal line; in the ab. plumbea Butl. (56 b) the forewing is suffused with dark leaden plumbea. 

 grey, obscuring the markings generally, but the 3 white spots at base, those forming the subterminal line, and 

 the white dots on the veins stand out conspicuous. The paler forms are tj^ical, from Amurland; Japanese 

 examples are generally darker, culminating in the suffused aberration plumbea. 



9. Genus: Polj'ploca Hbn. 



Differs from Palimpsestis Hbn. in the eyes being haiiy; the third segment of dorsum with a crest. Larva 

 living concealed between united leaves of trees. Type P. flavicornis L. 



P. diluta F. (= bipiuicta Dup.) (49 h). Forewing whitish grey or lilac grey or dark grey; a short black diluta. 

 dash on siibmed'an fold near base; the base itself diffusely darker; inner band brown, formed of three lines, 

 the inner two dark grey and diffuse, the outer concise and black, outwardly elbowed on each fold, inwardly 

 angled on vein 1 ; outer line double, inwardly dentate, incurved from costa to vein 4, then vertical and undu- 

 lated, followed by a diffuse brown shade edged with a dentate broM'n line, followed again after a pale space by 

 another dark dentate line ; subterminal pale followed by a darker shade and met by a black obhque mark from apex ; 

 a line of black marginal lunules ; reniform stigma narrow, grey with a black edge, bearing a small white spot 

 at its lower end ; hindwing pale grey with darker outer band marked by dark streaks on the veins, and a broad 



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