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XXVI. Descriptions of new Genera and Species of Hetero- 
cerous Lepidoptera from Japan.* By Arruur G. 
Butter, F.L.§8., F.Z.8., &e. 
[Read August 3rd, 1881.] 
GEOMETRITES. 
ENNOMIDA. 
91. Therapis straminea, un. s. 
Pale straw-yellow, the wings white towards the basal 
area ; primaries with slender blackish dashes across the 
costal border; the base of this border speckled with 
blackish ; the basal half of the second median inter- 
space and a curved submarginal line from it to the apex 
buff-yellow flecked with black ; a subapical black lunule 
close to the outer margin; the apical fringe blackish 
with bisinuated black inner line, being the commence- 
ment of an interrupted lunulated black marginal line ; 
secondaries minutely and sparsely speckled with blackish 
scales; a slender blackish marginal line interrupted at 
the ends of the nervures as in the primaries; wings 
below pale creamy stramineous, whitish towards ‘the 
internal area of primaries and the base of secondaries, 
irrorated with brown, and with a brown marginal line ; 
primaries with a small brownish spot at the origin of 
the second median branch, and an oblique subapical 
yellowish streak flecked with brown ; apical fringe black, 
with sordid white centre between the veins ; secondaries 
with an arched series of black dots on the veins beyond 
the middle; body pale creamy buff or sordid white, 
the legs slightly brownish; expanse of wings, 1 inch 
6 lines. 
Tokei (Fenton). 
The following species I must for the present refer 
provisionally to Hpione, in which genus I have placed 
their allies; at the same time they appear to me to 
* Continued from p. 200, ante. 
TRANS. ENT. soc. 1881.—PaART III. (SEPT.) 3G 
