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Genus TRISTROPHIS. 

 (Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. vii. p. 199 (1883).) 



Tristrophis veneris. 



Urapteryx veneris, Butl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) i. p. 392 (1878) ; 

 111. Typ. Lep. Het. iii. p. 29, pi. xlviii. fig. 1 (1879). 



A fine series from Yokohama and Nikko in Fryer's col- 

 lection. 



The transverse bands of primaries vary in width and the 

 black spots on disk of secondaries are inconstant both as 

 regards size and number. 



Hob. Japan. 



Genus MYRTETA. 

 (Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. xxiii. p. 831 (1861).) 



Myrteta sinensaria, sp. n. (PL VI. fig. 13.) 



Near to M. planaria, Walk., but rather whiter in the 

 ground-colour ; outer third of primaries more heavily suffused 

 and the three transverse lines approach nearer to each other 

 toward inner angle; the three blackish spots towards anal 

 angle of M. planaria are in M. sinensaria replaced by a 

 sinuate black line, and the two submarginal spots are repre- 

 sented by a blotch. 



Expanse 46 millim. 



One male example from Moupin, July. 



Hal. Western China. 



Myrteta angelica. 

 Myrteta angelica, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 413. 



Two specimens from Yokohama in Fryer's collection. 

 I captured the species at Oiwake in October. 

 Hab. Japan. 



Myrteta tripunctaria, sp. n. 



Very near to M. angelica, Butl., but whiter, and the three 

 transverse lines of primaries are narrower and more oblique ; 

 on the outer edge of the yellow patch at anal angle of second- 

 aries there are three black spots, the middle one the largest, 

 and a short indented black line on its inner edge. On the 

 under surface the neuration is dark coloured ; the outer mar- 

 ginal area of primaries is broadly blackish, preceded by a 

 blackish line, and the basal area is suffused with the same 

 colour ; above the three blackish spots on outer margin of 

 secondaries there is a blackish patch ; submarginal line 



