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Fore wing beneath with the yellow markings a little 

 broadened, the subapical ones paler. Hind wing beneath 

 with the black parts only feebly expressed (olive-grey), 

 but with two strong roundish black outer spots, one 

 corresponding to that of upperside, the second between 

 M 1 and M 2 . 



Chang Yang, Central China, July 1888 (A. E. Pratt). 

 Type in Coll. Joicey ; 2 <J $ in coll. Brit. Mus. Also a <J 

 from Ichang and one from Ta-tsien-lu in coll. Brit. Mus. 



Unaccountably mixed by Leech among elizabetha ; collar 

 red, wings narrower, fore wing wanting the yellow longi- 

 tudinal line in cell and the large submarginal spot behind 

 M 2 ; hind wing wanting the black transverse mark near end 

 of cell and with narrower, quite differently shaped distal 

 border. Evidently nearer to pulchella, but larger, both 

 wiugs differently marked in distal half. 



Family Geometridae. 

 Subfamily HemitbeinjsT 



2. Synclysmus nigrocristatus, sp. n. 



S .— 31 mm. 



Face whitish, irrorated with light brown and darker red- 

 brown, a small pointed tuft at the lower extremity tipped 

 with the latter colour. Palpus black on upper and outer 

 sides and at tip. Vertex white mixed with brown. Thorax 

 dirty white, much mixed with brown and red-brown above, 

 and in part with black. Abdomen more ochreous, with 

 rather strong brown black-mixed crests ; a red tinge on 

 sides. 



Fore wing white, shaded with light brown (less strongly 

 in submedian and terminal areas than in the rest of the 

 wing) ; lines formed of black irroration more condensed at 

 anterior end ; first extremely oblique from costa at base ; 

 antemedian from costa at 3'5 mm. to middle of hind margin, 

 sinuous, excurved in cell, incurved between fold and SM 2 ; 

 postmedian at about two-thirds, dentate, rather deeply inbent 

 between the radials and again between M 1 and fold; a more 

 reddish-brown shade between this and the very indistinct, 

 dentate, whitish subterminal ; termen with elongate black 

 markings between the veins. 



Hind wing long (Pm^asa-shaped), whiter than fore wing, 

 Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 9. Vol. i. 21 



