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919. Euplcxia dolorosa. 



Mamestra dolorosa, Walk., Cat. Lep., xxxii, p. 667 (1865). 

 Unplexia conduda, Hampson, Fauna Brit. Ind., Moths, ii, 

 p. 211 (1894). 



One female specimen from Kiukiang, taken in July. 

 Distribution. Throughout India and Ceylon {Hamp- 

 son) ; Central China. 



920. Euiolcxia mclanospila. 



Trachea mclanos2oila, Koll., Hiigel's Kaschmir, iv, p. 480 



(1844). 

 Eurois aiiriphna, Walk., Cat. Lep. Het., xi, p. 557 (1857). 

 Trachea atriplicis, Koll. (nrc Linn.), Hiigel's Kaschmir, iv, 



p. 479 (1844). 

 Hadena cmripUna, Leech, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1889, 



p. 508. 

 Euplcxia viclanos]iila, Hampson, Fauna Brit. Ind., Moths, 



ii, p. 214 (1894). 

 Hadena lucia, Butl., Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., (5) i, p. 



195 (1878); III. Typ. Lep. Het., iii, p. 17, pi. xlv, fig. 



2 (1879). 

 Hadena kosakka, Oberth., Etud. d'Entom., v, p. 80, pi. 



vii, fig. 4 (1880). 

 Hadena lucia, Oberth., op. cit., vi, j). 20, pi. viii, fig. 3 



(1881). 

 Hadena tokiensis, Butl., Trans. Ent. Soc, Lond., 1881, p. 



186. 



Of this exceedingly variable species I have a series of 

 eighty-four specimens, fifty of which are from the following 

 localities in China, Japan, and Corea — Ta-chien-lu, 

 Omei-shan, Ni-tou, Chia-kou-ho, Pu-tsu-fong, Wa-shan, 

 Chang-yang, and Ichang ; Oiwake, Tokio, and Hakodate ; 

 Gensan. The others are chiefly from Kulu. 



All the above-named forms are represented, and the 

 species-maker would have almost as much scope as if he 

 were to start naming aberrations of Arctia caia. Some 

 examples have no trace whatever of white on the 

 primaries, whilst in others there is a large, more or less 

 quadrate, Avhite patch on the disc of the wing, the upper 

 portion of which is placed between the stigmata, and 

 in some specimens is tinged with pink. Every inter- 

 mediate gradation is represented between a conspicuous 



