104 NOCTUID®. 
B. Antenne of female almost simple; palpi in both sexes somewhat curved 
forward and with tufts of scales from base and extremity of 2nd joint 
in front, the 3rd joint long in wale, shorter and more broadly scaled 
in female. 
6321. Anuga japonica. 
Piada japonica, Leech, P. Z.8. 1889, p. 538, pl. 52. f. 6. 
Head and thorax blue-grey slightly irrorated with black-brown ; 
palpi with black bars on basal joint ; tegule with black line near 
base; pectus in front and fore tarsi at extremities black-brown ; 
abdomen blue-grey tinged with brown, a small tuft of black scales 
on 4th segment, the ventral surface rufous in male, dark brown 
with the anal segment rufous streaked with white in female. 
Fore wing blue-grey tinged with red-brown, the inuer area and 
terminal area except towards apex suffused with red-brown; sub- 
basal line represented by a curved brown striga from costa and 
black point in cell; antemedial line double, the inner line indistinct 
and rufous, the outer black, sinuous and slightly angled inwards 
at vein 1; orbicular and reniform defined by black and with brown 
centres; the former round, the latter elliptical with black striga in 
centre ; traces of a diffused brown medial line, excurved to median 
neryure, then incurved; postmedial line double, the inner line 
Fig 39.—<Anuga japonica, 5. 1}. 
black, the outer indistinct, bent outwards below costa, then dentate 
and produced to blackish and pale points on the veins, incurved at 
discal fold and below vein 4, some black points beyond it on costa ; 
subterminal line formed of small rufous spots with an oblique 
blackish shade before it from vein 7 to inner margin, the line 
slightly incurved below vein 8; a series of small black spots just 
before termen, almost obsolete towards tornus. Hind wing greyish 
irrorated and suffused with dark purplish brown, almost wholly 
suffused in female; an indistinct curved dark postmedial line; a 
slight ochreous white subterminal line from yein 4 to submedian 
fold with black spots before it above and below vein 2; a series of 
black strive on termen from apex to vein 2; the underside brownish 
white irrorated with brown, a black discoidal lunule, indistinct 
curved medial line, postmedial series of black points on the veins 
and diffused subterminal line waved towards tornus. , 
Hab. Javan, Yokohama (Pryer), 1 g type, Sendai (Leech), 1 9. 
Bey. 42-46 millim. E 
