CHASMIN0DE3. CUASiriNA. 351 



4792. Chasminodes nigrilinea. 



Leocyina nigrilinea, Leech, V. Z. S. 1889, p. 522, pi. 51. f. 8. 



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

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

 wing silvery white ; a brownish postincdial line obliquely exciirved 

 t'roiu costa to vein 4, then oblique and slightly angled outwarda at 

 vein 1 ; a terminal series of small fuscous lunules ; cilia while 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 tinged 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. 



Hah. Japan, Yokohama {Pryer), 1 5 type. Exp. 34 millim. 



4793. Chasmiiiodes alboniteus. 



Acontia albonitens, Brem. Bull. Ac. St. P6ter.sb. iii. p. 490 (ISfU); 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. Foi'o wing with 



Fig. 160. — Chasminodes albonitens, J', t- 



two slight discoidal black points or slight lunule and a terminal 

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

 on ternien from apex to vein 2. 



Hah. W. SiBEP.iA, Ussuri, 2 J , 2 $ ; Japan, Yesso {Fryer), 3 2 , 

 Hakodate {Leech), 2 J , Oiwake {Fryer], 1 J , Tokio (Maries), 1 d , 

 1 2 ; CoREA, Gensan {Leech), 2 cS . L\vp. 2S-3G millim. 



Genus CHASMINA. 



Type. 



Ckasmina, '^' Ik ix. 146 (185(>) iibialis. 



Sphrugifera, Staud. Rom. Mem. vi. p. 554 (1892) sigillaia. 



Liinophlehia, Hmpsii. 111. Het. B.M. ix. p. 92 (1893) serivca. 



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

 head, smoothly scaled and flattened against frons, the iJrd short ; Irons smooth, 



