124 Mr. BuTLER*s descriptions of 



of Japanese Lepidoptera," a work wliicli (situated as Pryer is, 

 far away from all large liljraries and collections) he would have 

 been wiser not to have attempted to produce. 



I may mention here that ' A rgyris ' superba should have been 

 referred to Walker's genus Auzata ; it only differs from the 

 type of that genus in the much longer sub-costal furca in the 

 primaries, the entire, instead of deeply sinuated, character of 

 the secondaries, and in its slightly thicker antennae, whereas it 

 differs from Argyris in both neuration and antenna; ; the fol- 

 lowing is a new genus: — 



CALLiciLix, n. gen. 



Wing-form and neuration similar to Auzata; but the antennas 

 pectinated and tapering, and the palpi slender, erect, and 

 decidedly longer than in Avzata ; the position of the genus 

 therefore is between the latter and Macrocilix. 



20. Callicilix abraxata, n. sp. 



Creamy-white, all the wings with a marginal series of large 

 oval grey-brown spots, and some partly confluent irregular 

 patches tending to form a sub-marginal band; primaries crossed 

 by a broad and somewhat irregular central belt, grey-brown 

 towards costa, and enclosing a spot of the ground-colour, but 

 below the sub-costal vein, dark golden-brown, crossed by pearl- 

 grey veins, with black extremities, and traversed internally by 

 a pale sinuated line; three grey-brown spots across the basal 

 area; two oval spots on the radial interspaces and a third near 

 apex pearl-white; secondaries with a large grey-brown patch 

 from centre of abdominal margin to the middle of the wing, 

 whence it is continued by two unequal spots to costa; a small 

 sj^ot near base of interno-median area ; four pearl-Avhite spots 

 on the disc between the sub-median and radial veins ; head 

 black, antennae brown; thorax cream-colour; abdomen yellowish, 

 with two dorsal series of grey-brown spots ; wings below with 

 markinus more confluent than above, costal area ijolden-browuish; 

 central belt paler than above, greyer, not broken by bicolored 

 veins or a pale line ; body below ochreous, venter with small 

 blackish lateral sj)0ts. ExjDanse of wings 44 mm. 



Yezo, Nikko (H. Pryer). 



lias somewhat the aspect and altogether the coloration of an 

 Abraxas. 



