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Genus Obeidia. 

 (Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. xxiv. p. 1139 (1802).) 



Obeidia vagipardata. 

 Obeidia vagipardata, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. xxiv. p. 1139 (1862). 



Common at Chang-yang, Kiukiang, and in all the localities 

 visited by my collectors : June and July. 



There is considerable variation in the size of the black 

 spots ; those on the secondaries are often confluent and form 

 more or less complete bands. In one male specimen from 

 the province of Kwei-chow the secondaries are almost entirely 

 blackish and the outer and inner marginal areas of primaries 

 are broadly marked with the same colour. 



Uab. Central and Western China. 



Obeidia rongaria. 



Rhyparia rongaria, Oberth. Etud. d'Entom. xviii. p. 35, pi. ii. fig. 22 

 (1893). 



Described by Oberthlir from a specimen received by him 

 from Ts^-kou. 



Hab. Western China. 



Obeidia idaria. 



Rhyparia idaria, Oberth. Etud. d'Entom. xviii. p. 35, pi. v. fig. 73 

 (1893). 



Oberthiir's type was from Tse-kou. 

 Hab. Western China. 



Obeidia tigrata. 



Abraxas tigrata, Guen. Ph.al. ii. p. 202 (1857). 



Obeidia tigrata, Hampson, Fauna Brit. Ind., Moth.'^, iii. p. 309, fio-. 



(Ib95). 

 Rhyparia leopardaria, Oberth. Etud. d'Entom. vi. p. 17, pi. ix. fig. 5 



(1881). 



A large number of specimens were received from Moupin, 

 Omei-shan, Chia-ting-fu, Kiukiang, and Ohang-yang : June 

 and July. 1 captured the species at Gensan in July. 



This species varies in exjjanse, in the tone of the yellow 

 coloration, and also in the size of tiie black spots ; in some 

 specimens the spots on secondaries are confluent and form 

 bands. 



Leopardaria, Oberth., is certainly a form of this species ; 



