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176 Mr. A. G. Butler’s Descriptions of new 
costal patch is continued{backwards, chiefly owing to the 
colour of the orbicular spot, which is large, oblique, and 
testaceous, enclosing an oblique 8-shaped brown cha- 
racter ; the undulated white discal lines (which are ill- 
defined in X. conspicillaris) are sharply defined, the inner, 
black-edged line being also nearer to the outer line and 
abruptly terminating half-way across the interno-median 
interspace, where it meets a curved longitudinal black 
stripe bounding the margin of the internal white border, 
and running to the outer edge of the white basal area ; 
marginal spots lunate, black, bordered internally with 
snow-white; fringe as usual; the secondaries differ in 
having a rather broad diffused brownish external border ; 
the veins are sordid (not black), tipped with black and 
crossed by a discal series of black dots ; the body differs 
in the browner colouring of the back of the collar, 
behind the black line ; on the under surface the principal 
difference is in the browner and more uniform coloration 
of the primaries, and the less conspicuous discal series 
of black dots on the secondaries; expanse of wings, 
1 inch 9 lines. 
Yokohama (H. Pryer). 
This species is sufficiently nearly allied to the 
European one to render a comparative description 
preferable to any other. 
APAMEIDA. 
52. Thalpophila digna, n. s. 
Allied to 7’. cytherea of Europe, from which it differs 
as follows :—Primaries silvery grey, sericeous with black 
markings, the interno-median area blotched with black 
to the base; the subbasal black-edged whitish line 
obsolete, and the second line with no inner white border ; 
the orbicular spot small, circular and sharply defined by 
a black edge, the ‘“‘reniform”’ ill-defined, clouded with 
black, and confounded with the black costal dashes ; 
discal line forming one slightly concave line from the 
subcostal vein to the third median branch, and thence 
trisinuate (the central sinus crossing the first median 
and interno-median interspaces) to inner margin, its 
inner (and not its outer) border being snow-white ; sub- 
marginal whitish line squamose, less irregular, formed 
entirely of pure white scales; marginal black line 
replaced by black dots; secondaries sordid white, 
