from Chinay Japan, and Corea. 441 



Genus Phyllabraxas, nov. 



Palpi porrect, reaching slightly beyond the frons and 

 clothed with long hair ; outer margins of wings rounded. 

 Primaries of male with fovea. Neuration as in Arichan7ia. 

 Antennas of male ciliated and finely serrated. Hind tibiae 

 dilated, with a tuft of long hair and two pairs of moderately 

 long spurs. 



Type P. curvaria. 



Phyllabraxas curvaria, sp. n. (PI. YIT. fig. 3.) 



Whitish, sparingly powdered with brownish. Primaries 

 suffused with olive-grey and marked with fuliginous brown 

 as follows : — a spot at the base ; an angulated subbasal band 

 united at the angle with a central fascia, the latter encloses 

 a patch of the ground-colour at each end and its outer edge is 

 curved and recurved; on the outer margin below apex there 

 is a more or less quadrate spot, and on the costa before apex 

 there is a similar one (these spots are united at tlieir opposed 

 angles), the lower encloses two white dots, which represent 

 portions of a much interrupted submarginal line ; on the outer 

 marginal area above outer angle there is a third spot, and 

 from the inner edge of this a streak descends to inner margin. 

 Secondaries have a blackish discal spot and a submarginal 

 band, the latter indicated by a brown spot on the costa, one 

 about the middle, and a dash above anal angle. Fringes of 

 primaries black, chequered with whitish towards inner 

 margin ; those of secondaries whitish marked with blackish. 

 Under surface : primaries whitish, the apical spots are 

 blackish and the basal area is suffused with the same colour; 

 secondaries are whitish powdered with blackish, and have an 

 incomplete central band in addition to the macular submar- 

 ginal band as above, but both are blackish. 



Expanse 42-46 millim. 



Five specimens, including both sexes, from Ta-chien-lu, 

 Moupin, and Omei-shan : July. 



Ilab. Western China. 



In one female from Ta-chien-lu (the only specimen from 

 that locality) the apical markings are browner. 



Phyllahraxas similar ia, sp. n. 



Primaries sordid whitish, freckled with blackish and 

 marked with reddish brown as follows : — a small patch at 

 the base ; a straight narrow subbasal fascia, commencing as 

 a spot on costa j an outwardly diffuse central fascia, broadest 



