118 Mr. Butler's descriptions of 



black atoms, witli the exceptions of a pale angular l)and just 

 before the basal third ; the speckled area also bounded exter- 

 nally by a second band scarcely paler than the ground colour; 

 two black sub- apical spots as in ^. digramma; secondaries of a 

 deeper ochreous tint than the primaries and slightly sordid, 

 excepting upon the external and costal borders ; thorax pale 

 ochreous, abdomen slightly darkur; under-surface pale creamy- 

 ochreous; primaries with Avhite internal border, basal three- 

 fourths of the wing suffused with pale brownish. Expanse of 

 wings 36 mm. 



Yokohama (II. Pryer). 



11. Forthetria eurydice^ n. sp. 



Primaries above olive-broAvn ; basal two-fifths confusedly 

 banded with black ; a dusky discocellur lunule ; a black sub- 

 apical semicircle upon the costa, and an interrupted discal series 

 of seven black spots ; secondaries black-brown, almost black; 

 body blackish, antenna3 and tegulas olive-brown; wings below 

 blackish-brown, primaries with the apical third sandy testaceous, 

 shoAviug some of the black spots of the upper surface ; body 

 below sandy-brown. Expanse of wings 40 mm. 



Ohoyama (H. Pryer). 



About the most sombre species in the genus. 



12. Calliteara pseudabietis, n. sp. 



$ Primaries above greyish-white, with faint indications of the 

 markings of C. ahietis as follows: — base silvery-white, bounded 

 by a slightly zigzag abbreviated blackish line; no orbicular spot, 

 but an oblique reniform black-edged spot upon a grey irregular 

 central belt partly edged with blackish; a sub-apical black dot; 

 a sub-marginal series of black dots, and an imperfect series of 

 blackish spots on the fringe; secondaries sericeous greyish, Avith 

 whitish abdominal border and grey-spotted Avhite fringe ; body 

 above sordid white with dorsal blackish spots ; antenna? "with 

 reddish ] ectinations ; under-surface white; wings with black 

 discocellular spots; primaries with greyish discoidal area ; palpi 

 black at the sides ; legs spotted with black. Expanse of wings 

 50 mm. 



Nikko, lOth August, 1881 (G. Lewis). 



The form of the i^rimaries in this species is that of C. ahietis 

 $ , it is also nearly as i)ale as and much loss distinctly marked 

 than that sex; it should follow C. argentata. 



