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slightly into the darker portion about the middle, black diseal spot. 

 Secondaries purplish, irrorated with black, and the disc traversed by two 

 parallel pale lines. Fringes of all the wings grey-brown, preceded by a black 

 marginal line. Under surface as above. Expanse, 15 mm. 



I took a female example at Gensan in July, 1886. 

 MiCEOscA ExusTA var. ERECTA, Plate IV., fig. 3. 



? . Yellowish ochreous, reticulated with purplish brown. Primaries 

 have a purplish brown stripe from the apex along the costa nearly to the 

 middle, from whence it traverses the wing directly to the inner margin ; 

 from the costal portion of this stripe a line of the same colour is projected to 

 the outer margin. Secondaries with curved central, and indented submarginal 

 purplish brown lines. Expanse, 22 mm. 



A female example taken by myself at Gensan, July, 1886. 



The narrower straight-edged central fascia would appear to 

 afford a good character by which this insect might be specifically 

 separated from C. exusta and ardens, but I have long series of 

 each of these last, and am of opinion that they themselves are 

 nothing but forms of one species. I am therefore not inclined to 

 claim specific rank for the solitary specimen I have from Gensan, 

 which, although it exhibits some points of difierence when com- 

 pared with typical examples of C. exusta, Butl., taken at the 

 same time and place, is yet connected with that species by other 

 forms taken in Japan, which are not exactly identical with typical 

 C. exusta or var. ardens. 



MicRoscA MARGiNEPUNCTALis, n. sp., Plate IV., fig. 10. 

 Primaries fuscous-grey, diseal area tinged with pink, costa spotted with 

 brown, three black spots below the tip, and some pale cuneiform spots on 

 outer margin ; several dusky lines from inner margin to the raedian nerve, 

 diseal spot black. Secondaries pinkish grey, with some small whitish diseal 

 spots separated from each other by blackish scales, two interrupted transverse 

 abbreviated whitish bands from abdominal margin. Under surface pale 

 brown, faintly tinged with pink ; primaries thickly spotted with black along 

 costal area, some short blackish linear marks on the disc, and some silvery 

 white cuneiform streaks at apex and outer margin ; secondaries with the 

 diseal area densely sprinkled with black scales, and divided into three 

 portions by transverse bands of the ground colour. Expanse, ^ 22 — 28 mm., 

 ? 31—33 mm. 



I took four specimens (one male, three females) in Satsuma, 

 May, 1886. 



MiCRoscA suBRosEALis, n. sp., Plate IV., fig. 14. 



Primaries ochreous, strongly suffused with pink, and traversed by several 

 faint narrow brownish wavy lines, one of which beyond the blackish diseal spot 

 is sharply elbowed ; costa rather paler, spotted with linear patches of brown. 

 Secondaries pinkish red tinged witli ochreous, and spi'inkled with numerous 

 faint dots arranged in transverse lines. Fringes pale brown, chequered with 

 dark brown. Under surface pale ochreous, tinged with pink and dotted and 

 lined with brown. Expanse, 20 mm. 



An example of each sex taken by my native collector at Ningpo, 

 in June, 1886, 



