404 Lord Walsiuffham on Asiatic TortrlcldaB. 



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of the wing is an oblique elongate steel-blue spot beneath the 

 costa, with two wliite costal streaks at its upper edge, opposite 

 to which is a rounded steel-blue spot between the fold and 

 the dorsum ; this is followed by a smaller spot at the lower 

 edge of the fold halfway to the tornus ; from a little beyond 

 the middle of the costa a slightly outward-curved bright steel- 

 blue band runs to a little above the tornus, where it is 

 diverted towards the termen ; at its costal extremity are two 

 oblique white costal streaks, these are followed by three pairs 

 of similar costal streaks before the apex, the third from the 

 apex sending out an oblique steel-blue line to the termen ; 

 some steel-blue spots follow the outline of the termen below 

 it, and the space preceding these latter markings is streaked 

 with olive-brown ; cilia pale steel-grey, a slender whitish 

 ochreous line along their base followed by a narrow fuscous 

 line; the extreme apex of the wing around the last two 

 costal streaks is tinged with olive-brown and the cilia at the 

 extreme apex are whitish. Exp. al. 13-14 mm. Hind 

 wings dark brownish fuscous ; cilia white, tipped with 

 greyish before the apex, a slender whitish ochreous line along 

 their base, followed by a narrow brownish fuscous line. 

 Abdomen brownisii fuscous. Legs brownish grey; hind 

 tarsal joints spotted with whitish ochreous. 

 Tfipe, ? (70020); ^ (70019) Mus. Wlsm. 

 Hub. Japan — Yesso {Fryer ^ 1882). Four specimens. 



Thiodia, Hb. 



1110 (2). Thiodia infessana^ Wlsm. 



Antennm pale favvn-ochreous. Palpi projecting more than 

 the length of the head beyond it ; pale ochreous, the end of 

 the tuft beneath the median joint fawn-brownish. Head and 

 thorax pale ochreous, the latter with a brownish shade. 

 Fore wings fawn-brown, mixed with minute brownish fuscous 

 scales, profusely mottled and transversely strigulate with 

 shining pale ochreous, and with two short black lines in the 

 obscure ocelloid patch above the tornus; cilia pale ochreous, 

 with brownish mottling. Exp. al., S 20, ? 22 mm. Hiiid 

 wings brownish grey ; cilia pale brownish cinereous, with a 

 slender pale ochreous line along their base. Abdomen and 

 lerjs brownish grey. 

 ' Type, i (60827) ; ? (00828) Mus. Wlsm. 

 Hab. Asiatic Turkey — IJaleb — Shar Devesy, 15 VI. 

 1890 (jyative Coll); Palestine [Tristram^ 1883). Six 

 .specimens. 



