CHASMIN0DE3. CHASJUXA. 351 



4792. Chasminodes nigrilinea. 



Leocyma nigrilinea, Leech. P. Z. S. 1889, p. 522, pi. 51. f. 8. 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen pure white ; antennae tinged 

 with fuscous except at base ; fore tarsi ringed with brown. Fore 

 wing silvery white ; a brownish postmedial line obliquely excurved 

 from costa to vein 4, then oblique and slightly angled outwards at 

 vein 1 : a terminal series of small fuscous lunules ; cilia white at 

 base, fuscous at tips. Hind wing white ; a curved postmedial line 

 from costa to submedian fold, the area beyond it tinged with brown 

 to vein 2 ; a fine brown terminal line ; cilia white tiuged with 

 brown at apex. Underside of fore wing brown, the costa and inner 

 area white, whitish streaks in and beyond the cell and in inter- 

 spaces of terminal area ; hind wing with curved diffused postmedial 

 line from costa to vein 2, the area beyond it irrorated with 

 fuscous. 



Hob. Japan, Yokohama (Pryer), 1 $ type. Exp. 34 millim. 



4793. Chasminodes albonitens. 



Acontia albonitens, Breru. Bull. Ac. St. Petersb. iii. p. 490 (1861); id. 

 Lep. Ost-Sib. p. 55, pi 5. f. 15 ; Stand. Cat. Lep pal. p. 225. 



Silvery white ; palpi with the base of 3rd joint blackish ; 

 antennae blackish except at base; fore tibiae with black point at 

 base, the tarsal joints with black points at base. Fore wing with 



Fig. 160. — Chasminodes albonitens, $ . \. 



two slight discoidal black points or slight lunule and a terminal 

 series of slight black points. Hind wing with slight black points 

 on termen from apex to vein 2. 



Hub. W. Siberia, Ussuri, 2 J , 2 o ; Japan, Yesso (Pryer), 3 $ , 

 Hakodate (Leech), 2 J , Oiwake (Pryer), 1 S , Tokio (Maries), 1 c? , 

 1 5 ; Corea, Gensan (Leech), 2 tf . Exp. 28-36 millim. 



Genus CHASMINA. 



Type. 



Chasmina, Wit. is. 146 (1856) tibialis. 



Sphragifera, Stand. Rom. Mem. vi. p. 554 (1892) sigillata. 



Clinophlebia, Hinpsn. 111. Het. B.M. ix. p. 92 (1893) sericea. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex of 

 head, smoothly scaled and flattened against frons, the 3rd short; frons smooth, 



