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brown mixed with darker brown. Under side ochreous brown with 
itraces of the upper side markings. 
Expanse, 25 millim. 
Collection number, 646. 
A male specimen from Kanshirei, August 20th, 1905. 
- Somewhat resembles 7. angularia, Leech, but smaller. 
Gelasma rantaizanensts, sp. n. 
@. All wings whitish with greenish suffusion, especially on the 
medial area up to the postmedial line; costa and termen ochreous ; 
postmedial line white, serrated, almost straight and parallel with the 
termen ; discoidal mark dusky, linear; fringes greenish white. 
Expanse, 32 millim. 
Collection number, 847 c. 
A female specimen from Rantaizan, May 7th, 1909. 
Alhed to G. glaucaria, Walk., from which it differs in being 
‘paler in general colour; the antemedial line of fore wings is 
indistinct, and the postmedial line is straighter and nearer the 
termen; the termen itself is paler. On the hind wings the 
postmedial line is also nearer the termen, and is rather more 
sharply serrated. 
Geometra argentilineata, sp. n. 
?. Head white, face and palpi ochreous, collar greenish brown; 
thorax and abdomen greenish. Fore wings green, costa narrowly 
' ochreous; antemedial line silvery white, dentate teeth set inwards ; 
postmedial line silvery white, crenulate; discdidal bar dusky ; space 
between the transverse lines rather darker. Hind wings green, 
discoidal bar dusky, enclosing a silvery white streak; antemedial 
line silvery white, dentate teeth set inwards; postmedial line silvery 
white, crenulate, following contour of the termen. Fringes of all the 
wings greyish, preceded by silvery white points at ends of the veins. 
Under side whitish, faintly tinged with green, transverse lnes 
traceable. 
Expanse, 30 millim. 
Collection number, 1620. 
A female specimen from Arizan, August 16th, 1908. 
Near G. argutaria, Walk. 
I have a male specimen from Kanshirei, taken in August, 
1908, which may be referable to G. argentilineata, but it is in 
such poor condition that its identity must remain doubtful. 
NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 
BANKIA ARGENTULA IN WICKEN Fen.—In reference to Mr. W. G. 
Sheldon’s concluding paragraph on ‘‘ Wicken Fen” (antea, p. 4), I 
may state that I had taken B. argentula in Wicken Fen before it had 
been turned up at Chippenham Fen. So that it was not into a “new 
