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shade and followed by a black transverse line which is bent opposite 
the spot. 
Expanse 42 mm. 
?. Browner, the antemedial line of forewings not so distinctly 
dentate below the costa, and the upper sinus of postmedial line not 
so deep as in the male. 
Male type from Tobetsu, Oshima, July, 1902. Female 
type from Nikko, August, 1893. <A series of eight male 
specimens and one female taken at Tobetsu and Junsai 
Numa, Oshima, Yezo, in June and July, 1902, 1903, and 
at Nikko, August, 1893. 
Expanse of series from 34 to 42 mm. 
Local distribution. YEZo; Honpo. 
Habitat. JAPAN. 
This species comes near Lycia (Liston) robustum, var. 
parva, Leech. It differs, however, from parva in the 
antemedial line being indented below costa, and in its 
much smaller size. 
Collection numbers, 533, 5338a. 
Genus GNOPHOS. 
Treitschke, Eur. Schmett., vi, 1, p. 160 (1827); Hamp- 
son, Fauna Brit. India, Moths, iii, p. 251 (1895). 
248, 
Gnophos perdita. 
Gnophos perdita (Butler ?), Staud., Ivis, x, p. 61 (1897), Cat. 
Lep. pal., i, p. 345 (1901). 
Staudinger records this species from Japan with a 
query, and states in the Iris (swpra) that a female of this 
species was identified for him by Leech, but that he is 
unable to discover where Butler described the species ; 
unrecorded by Leech. 
General distribution. E. S1BERIA (Ussuri); ? JAPAN. 
Genus ALCIS. 
Curtis, Brit. Ent., p. 113 (1829). 
249, 
Alcis invenustaria. 
Amphidasys invenustaria, Leech, Entom., suppl. p. 43 
(May, 1891). 
