from China, Japan, and Oorea. 83 



Four male specimens were received from Pu-tsu-fong and 

 one from Chow-pin-sa : June. 



OberthuYs types were from Ta-chien-lu. 

 Hob. Western China. 



Venusia kioudjrouaria. 



Venusia kioudjrouaria, Oberth. Etud. d'Entom. xviii. p. 31, pi. iii. 

 fig. 46 (1893). 



Oberthur describes this species from Ta-chien-lu. I have 

 four female specimens taken in the province of How-Kovv in 

 July. 



Bab. Western China and Thibet. 



Venusia laria. 



Venusia lana, Oberth. Etud. d'Entom. xviii. p. 30, pi. iii. fig. 34 

 (1893). 



Oberthiir's types were from Ta-chien-lu. My collectors 

 did not meet with the species. 

 Hob. Western China. 



Venusia undularia, sp. n. 



Primaries grey ; basal area with four serrated brownish- 

 grey transverse lines ; beyond the blackish discal spot there 

 are two undulated, serrated, brownish-grey lines, enclosing a 

 band of the same colour ; the nervules passing through this 

 band are marked with black, and there is a black bar on the 

 band above the third median branch ; submarginal line agrees 

 with the others in colour and contour, but increases in width 

 towards the costa ; between the last line and the outer margin 

 there is an indistinct dusky line. Secondaries whitish ; the 

 discal dot is placed on or near a dark grey transverse shade, 

 and there are four or five dark grey crenulated lines beyond. 

 Fringes whitish grey, preceded by a series of blackish dots. 

 Under surface of primaries fuscous, with the transverse lines 

 beyond the discal spot faintly shown; of secondaries as above. 



Expanse, $ 30, ? 33 millim. 



One example of each sex from Pu-tsu-fong, Western 

 China : June. 



This species is allied to V. laria, Oberth. 



Genus ASTHENA. 

 (Hiibn. ; Hampson, Fauna Brit. Ind., Moths, iii. p. 417 (1895).) 



Asthena candidata. 



Geometra candidata, Schiff . S. V. p. 110 ; Hiibn. Geom. fig. 101. 

 Asthena candidata, Meyrick, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1892, p. 74. 



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