CHASMIXA. MOLVENA. 357 



incurved to vein i where it is angled outwards ; a large somewhat 

 irregularly rounded postmedial chocolate-brown patch from just 

 below Costa to above vein 3 ; two slightly waved subtcrminal brown 

 lines from vein 6 to inner margin ; a waved blackisli line just before 

 termen ; a fine brown terminal line ; cilia tinged with yellow 

 brown. Hind wing white tinged with ochreous and with faint 

 brownish patch on termen below apex ; some brown strite on 

 apical half of termen. Underside; of fore wing with diffused l)rown 

 patch on basal half of costa and cell, the postmedial patch brown ; 

 hind wing with small discoidal spot and curved postmedial series of 

 points. 



Hab. AV. Siberia, Ussuri ; Jai'ax, Hakodate, 1 c? , Oiwake 

 {Pnjer), 2^,1 $ . ' Exi). 40-42 millim. 



4804. Chasmiiia biplaga. 



Acoutia hlplaqa, Wlk. xii. 71)5 (ISriT); Bull, 111. Ilet. B. .M. iii. p. 10, 



pi. 45. L 7." 

 Euphiima auhii'incalh. Wlk. xxxiii. 780 (ISHj). 

 Acontia hipliKjinfa, Wlk. xxxiii. 781 (1855). 



Silvery white ; palpi fulvous above and at tips ; frons with 

 black bar above ; antennae brown ; legs tinged with ochreous brown, 

 the fore tibiae with two blackish points ; abdomen with i'aint 

 diffused brownish ochreous bands. Fore wing with oblique wedge- 

 shaped fulvous band from middle of costa to lower angle of cell ; 

 rcniforai incompletely defined by brown and with brown spot at 

 middle, constricted at middle ; a yellow-brown wedge-shaped patch 

 ix'om lower angle of cell to termen between veins 4 and 1 ; a bright 

 rufous elliptical subterminal patch fi'om just below costa to vein 4 ; 

 a yellow-brown mark at apex and slight subterminal line followed 

 by a fine waved line just before termen with black point on it below 

 vein 4 ; a fine brown terminal line ; cilia brown at tips. Hind wdng 

 with diffused brownish terminal band, the cilia tinged with brown ; 

 the underside with slight discoidal spot and curved postmedial series 

 of points. 



Hah. Japan, Fusan (Leech), 1 J, Shiraonoseki (Li-ech), 1 J', 

 Isuruga (Leech), 1 § , Nikko (Ito), 1 2 ', Cokea, Gensan (Leech), 2 c^ ; 

 N. China (Fortune), 2 cJ fypt; and type suhapicalis, Nankow Pass, 

 1 2 ; C. China, JSTingpo, 1 5 ; AV. China, Kwei-chow, 1 J , ('hang- 

 yang (Pratt), 1 J • Exp. 32-38 millim. 



Genus MOLVENA. 



Type. 

 Molvena, Wlk. xxxiv. 126() (18(')5) i/ii/talh. 



Proboseis fully developed ; palpi porrect, extending to jusl. beyond Irons 

 and moderately fringed will] liuir below ; iron.s with long iruneale corneous 

 jirocess with raised edges and pointctl corneous jjlale below it ; eyes large, 



