144 Mr. Leech on a collection of 



and bordered on each side with fuscous. Thei'e are several fuscous 

 si^ots, inchiding a large central one, scattered over the disc, and a 

 band of the same colour tapering towards the inner angle traverses 

 the outer margin. Secondaries white, with a large central fuscous 

 spot and some smaller ones on all the margins ; a yellow line, 

 edged with brownish and bordered with fuscous, runs from anal 

 angle parallel with outer margin as far as the third median nervule. 

 Antennae brown, slightly serrated. Head and pectus yellowish, 

 collar white, tipped with yellowish brown. Thorax white, orna- 

 mented with yellow and brownish. Abdomen white, tinged with 

 fuscous dorsally ; tufts yellowish. Fringes grey, partly chequered 

 with white. Under surface : colour, and markings very similar to 

 those of the upper side, but the central spots are yellowish brown. 

 Expanse, 78 mm. 



238. Pachyodes arenaria, n. s. (PL IX,, fig. 12). 



Female. All the wings whitish. Primaries with some fuscous 

 and brownish scales, sparingly sprinkled over the disc, more 

 thickly on the costa and towards outer margin, and forming a dark 

 patch on the anterior margin before the apex; before the middle 

 is a brownish curved transverse line, preceded by a small oval 

 mark and followed by a much larger one, both outlined in dark 

 brown, and filled up with paler ; beyond the middle a curved dark 

 brown line from the costa apj)ears to terminate at the second 

 median nervule, but may be faintly traced from this point curving 

 in the opposite direction to the inner margin. Secondaries whitish, 

 sprinkled with pale brownish scales ; submarginal line pale and 

 ill-defined. Under side whitish. Primaries with a round spot 

 above, a short bar near the base succeeded by a large oval spot, 

 and a narrow curved fascia, all dark brown in colour, and, excepting 

 the short bar, are reproduced on the secondaries. Head and collar 

 brownish, thorax and abdomen whitish. 



Expanse, 59 mm. 



239. Rhyparia jaguaria, Guen., Plial., ii., 198, 1246. 



Several fine examples. They are paler and larger 

 than specimens from Japan. 



240. Abraxas sylvata, Scop., Ent. Carn., p. 220 (1763). 



Abraxas idmata, Fabr., Syst. Ent., 632, 



.1, miranda, Butl., Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (5), i., 



p. 441 (1878) ; 111. Typ. Lep. Het., pt. iii., p. 48, 



pi. Iii., fig. 12. 



