Lord Walsingham on Asiatic Torfricrdae. 441 



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line along the termen precedes the greyish cinereous cilia. 

 Exp. al. 14 mm. Hind wings and cilia pale brownish cine- 

 reous. Abdomen brownish grey. Legs white, with blackish 

 annulations on the hind tarsi. 



Type, $ (60352) Mus. W Ism. 



Hub. E. China — Ningpoo, IV. 1886 {Leech). Amur — 

 Anossowo, 15 VI. 1877 (Hedemann) . Japan — Yesso (Pryer, 

 1882). Three specimens. 



This is distinguished from burgessana, Z., by its paler hind 

 wings, the paler dorsal patch, and by the pale space above the 

 tornus, the costal triangle not extending to the tornus. It is 

 nearly allied to laciniana, 7i , and lundana, F. 



Rhopobota, Ld. 



1268. Rhopobota ncevana, Hb. 

 Rhopobota ncevana, Stgr. & Wk. Cat. Lp. Eur. 263. No. 1268 (1871) 1 . 



Hab. Europe 1 . Japan (Pryer, 1886). India — Dharm- 

 sala (Hocking^); Ootacamund, I. 1884 (Minchin). 



Crocidosema, Z. 



1269. Crocidosema plebeiana, Z. 



Crocidosema plebeiana, Stgr. & Wk. Cat. Lp. Eur. 263. No. 1269 (1871) l ; 

 Wlsni. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1897, 127. No. 174 (1897) a . 



Hab. Europe 1 . Palestine (Tristram). Hawaiia 



(Blackburn). AUSTRALIA 2 . WEST INDIES 2 . BRAZIL 2 . 



Peru 2 . Argentina 2 . 



1269 (1). Crocidosema demutata, sp. n. 



Antennce ( £ ) thickened, not ciliate ; shining white, basal 

 joint dull white. Palpi white, touched with greyish at the 

 middle of the median joint externally. Head white. Thorax 

 evenly mottled with white and grey. Fore wings ( J* ) w r ith 

 a costal fold from the base ; basal patch whitish ochreous, 

 costa and dorsum mottled with grey, and with some olive- 

 brown on its lower half; beyond the basal patch is a strong 

 grey shade, faintly reticulated with white and fuscous, and 

 continued from the costa to a triangular patch, on the dorsum, 

 consisting of a number of more or less connected white spots, 

 varied with grey on the extreme margin ; beyond this dorsal 

 patch the outer part of the wing is stained with olive-green ; 

 there is a large circular patch of fuscous white below the 

 commencement of the outer third of the costa, into which two 

 pairs of geminated white streaks run from the margin above 



