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174 Mr. A. G. Butler’s Descriptions of new 
and secondaries sericeous creamy white; thorax sandy 
brownish; abdomen paler sandy brown, sericeous ; 
primaries below whitish towards the inner margin, 
without markings; secondaries with the costal border 
slightly sordid ; “body below sandy brownish ; expanse of 
wings, 1 inch 3 lines. 
Yokohama (H. Pryer). 
GLOTTULID. 
49. Glottula sordida, n. s. 
Primaries dark bronzy brown, crossed by two ill- 
defined black lines, the first at just before the basal 
third, widely sinuated, the second at about external third 
angulated and dentate-sinuate ; the costal border to the 
commencement of the second line marked with four 
black spots, beyond this line with alternate black and 
cream-coloured spots; fringe pale brown, traversed by a 
black line and tipped with black : secondaries shining 
greyish brown, with a very slender darker marginal line : : 
fringe whitish, traversed by a smoky brown line, and 
tipped with the same colour; thorax reddish brown; 
abdomen greyish brown; under surface shining greyish 
brown, with bronzy reflections : fringe grey ; primaries 
with an oblique blackish costal dash beyond the cell ; 
secondaries with the reflections rather redder than in the 
primaries, a dusky spot at the end of the cell; expanse 
of wings, 1 inch 6 lines. 
Yokohama (H. Pryer). 
The primaries of this species are rather squarer 
than in the typical form, more like G. atronitens of 
Australia; but the neuration and other points of 
structure agree. 
XYLOPHASIID. 
50. Xylophasia commicxta, n. 8. 
Nearest to X. sodalis; general aspect of Agrotis ustulata; 
primaries above dark purplish grey, with all the mark- 
ings as in X. rurea, excepting the two triangular blackish 
patches on the external border, which are wanting; the 
base, costal border between the black spots, discoidal 
area from the orbicular stigma to the denticulate discal 
line, the discoidal spots, and the outer border of a discal 
series of unequal black hastate spots, sienna-red (varied 
