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tlie most perfect specimens which can be procured, ought in all 

 fairness to be sent; by tliis, half one's labour might be saved, 

 tlie new species would be represented by presentable types 

 instead of disfigurements to the cabinet, and the sender would 

 have the satisfaction of knowing that he had done to otJiers as 

 he would that they should do to him. 



Cymatophorid.e. 

 Thyatira Jlavida, n. sp. 



Primaries above brownish-grey, sericeous, with five unequal 

 yellowish centred black-edged white patches, the largest at base, 

 the next largest at apex, two semi-circular, of about equal size, 

 one just beyond the centre of costa, the other at external angle, 

 the fifth narrow and elongated upon the inner margin ; second- 

 aries sericeous straw-yellow, clouded with grey beyond the 

 middle ; a tolerably broad dark grey sub -marginal band taper- 

 ing towards the anal angle; head and collar grey; thorax white, 

 the tegulffi sub-quadrate, slightly yellowish at their inferior 

 angles ; abdomen Avhity-brown ; under-surface pale sericeous 

 yellow, primaries clouded with grey, especially towards outer 

 margin, excepting a clear apical costal patch ; all the wings with 

 dark grey disco-submarginal band. Expanse of wings -ii mm. 



Hakodate, August 28th (G. Lewis). 



Intermediate in the character of the primaries between T. hatis 

 and T. •prijeri. 



Asplialia punctigera, n. sp. 



Nearly allied to A. arctipenms {Xylina arct/'pennis, Butler); 

 Avings a little broader and more pointed at apex; primaries silvery- 

 grey, with a broad central darker belt occupying more than a 

 third of the costa but narrowing to half its width at inner mar- 

 gin, the inner edge of this belt oblique and angular, the outer 

 edge obhque, slightly inarched but ill-defined; discoidal spots 

 small but stone-Avhitish, with l^lackish margins ; two parallel 

 zigzag pale discal stripes, the outer one limiting the dark 

 external border, which is rather narrow and tapers at the 

 extremities ; secondaries pale greyish, slightly darker towards 

 outer margin ; fringe whitish, traversed by a grey stripe ; thorax 

 dark grey, abdomen paler; imder-surface silvery-grey, the pri- 

 maries, especially within the cell, darker than the secondaries, 

 Avitli four little oblique black costal dashes beyond the cell; 

 pectus whitish. Expanse of wings 42 mm. 



Hakodate (G. Lewis). 



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