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obliquely by an angnlated white line, which, towards the 

 inner margin, is bounded internally by deeper colour and 

 externally by grey ; costal margin yellow, fringe white ; 

 secondaries shining brown, fringe white ; thorax chocolate- 

 brown ; abdomen greyish, with yellow anal tuft : under 

 surface shining whity brown ; primaries slightly greyish with 

 yellowish costa. Expanse 1 inch 1 line. 

 Yokohama {Jonas). 



Drepanulidse. 



42. Oreta turpisj n. sp. 



^ . Pale shining brown, external area sprinkled with short 

 black liturffi ; fringe dark chocolate-brown : primaries crossed 

 obliquely by two contiguous, parallel, discal, greyish lines, 

 which become blackish towards the apex ; a short plumba- 

 ginous apical streak between the outer line and the margin ; 

 the costa at apex and the fringe in the subapical sinus black ; 

 secondaries with the costal area pale, apical area rather darker 

 than the rest of the wing ; thorax reddish brown 5 abdomen 

 pale brown, anal tuft yellowish : under surface testaceous, 

 speckled sparsely with grey ; fringe brown. Expanse 1 inch 

 4 lines. 



Yokohama [Jonas). 



43. Oreta calida^ n. sp. 



Laky brown, mottled with black liturjB ; the male less red 

 than the female ; wings crossed by two central blackish lines, 

 the inner one slightly incurved, and the outer one angnlated 

 near the costa of primaries, bounded also by a yellow line 

 running to the apex, and limited externally by a brown streak; 

 apex greyish, with black margin ; fringe dark brown ; extre- 

 mity of the cell more or less dusky : secondaries with dark 

 brown fringe ; the female with a discal series of black dots, 

 outer border ferruginous. Under surface bright reddish tawny, 

 spotted with grey, and crossed by a discal grey stripe, which 

 is angnlated near the costa of primaries ; legs red. Expanse, 

 ^ 1 inch 8 lines, $ 2 inches. 



Yokohama (Jonas), Hakodate [Whitely). 



Allied to the preceding species and to 0. suffusa. 



44. Oreta pulchripes, n. sp. 



Sordid testaceous ; wings bordered and clouded with rosy 

 lilacine, and margined with ferruginous, mottled and striated 

 with grey ; primaries with two or three costal spots and one 

 near the external angle blackish, crossed by two oblique irre- 



