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at the ends of the nervules. Under surface brownish grey, 

 tinged with violet ; outer margin of primaries bordered witli 

 violet-grey, costal area striated and powdered with brown, 

 discoidal and costal spots as above, but the latter is surrounded 

 with black ; secondaries are freckled with brownish and clouded 

 with violet-grey below the black linear discoidal spot ; above 

 the anal angle there is a short whitish diffuse line, edged 

 inwardly with violet-grey. 



Expanse 38 millim. 



One male specimen from Moupin, July. 



Hob. Western China. 



Closely allied to S. evanescens, ButL, and perhaps only a 

 local form of that species. 



Genus ANONYCHIA. 



(Warr. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1893, p. 412.) 



Anonychia grisea. 



Nadagra grisea, Butl. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1883, p. 172. 

 Onychia grisea, Swinhoe and Cotes, Moths of India, p. 574 (1887). 

 Anonychia grisea, Hampson, Fauna Brit. Ind., Moths, iii. p. 178 (1895). 



I have specimens from Moupin, Ta-chien-lu, Pu-tsu-fong, 

 Wa-ssu-kow, taken in June and July. 



Distribution. N.W. Himalayas ; Sikkim ; Khdsis (Hamp- 

 son) ; Western China. 



Anonychia latifasciaria, sp. n. 



Allied to A. grisea^ Butl. Primaries greyish, powdered 

 and freckled with brownish ; the central band, which is inter- 

 sected by a blackish sinuous line, is broad and darker, espe- 

 cially towards the edges; the inner edge of the band is 

 curved about the middle ; submarginal line diffuse, pale, 

 wavy : secondaries fuscous grey, with a blackish, central, 

 slightly curved line. Under surface fuscous grey ; costa 

 yellowish, freckled with black ; the primaries have a blackish 

 discal spot and a series of spots on the neuration beyond ; 

 secondaries are much freckled and have a discal spot and a 

 series of spots as on primaries. Fringes grey, darker at their 

 base and marked with blackish at extremities of the nervules. 



Expanse 32 millim. 



Occurs at Omei-shan, Pu-tsu-fong, Ni-tou; I have one 

 male specimen from each locality : July. 



Hob. Western China. 



