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series towards outer margin ; two indistinct luniilar wavy 

 yellow lines ascending towards costa from middle of liind 

 margin : hind wing yellowish at base ; an indistinct brownish 

 recurved fascia from anal angle. Abdomen ochreous yellow. 

 Antennas, palpi at sides, and fore legs above brownish. Un- 

 derside pale glossy whitish testaceous. 



Exp. 2 inches. 



Hah, Shanghai. In coll. W. B. Pryer. 



Lofhopteryx sinensis. 



Upperside dark umber-brown : fore wing slightly black- 

 speckled, crossed by blackish sinuous subbasal and discal 

 bands ; a pale greyish streak obliquely from lobe of hind 

 margin and speckles along the outer veins : hind wing with a 

 short black-and-grey-speckled streak at anal angle. Under- 

 side pale brown. 



Exp. S If, ? If inch. 



Shanghai. In coll. W. B. Pryer and F. Moore. 



Ceira straminea. 



Male and female. Upperside — fore wing pale straw-yellow, 

 indistinctly speckled with darker yellow at the base ; an 

 oblique discal ti-ansverse series of brown points terminating 

 at apex, where they are partly confluent ; a marginal row of 

 similar points ; hind wing whitish cinereous. Body yellow. 

 Legs brown above, yellow beneath. Underside pale straw- 

 yellow ; fore wing in the male brownish cinereous in the 

 middle. 



Exp. 1| inch. 



Hab. Japan. In coll. W. B. Pryer and F. Moore. 



Pterostoma sinica. 



Male. Upperside — fore wing pale dull testaceous, with 

 slightly darker narrow longitudinal streaks between the veins ; 

 a median series of short chestnut-brown streaks, a submarginal 

 and marginal sinuous line of same colom* ; inner lobe of hind 

 margin black-and-grey fringed : hind wing brown. Body 

 pale testaceous ; abdomen with brownish dorsal tufts. Un- 

 derside pale testaceous : fore wing longitudinally clouded witli 

 brown: hind wing with two outer series of short longitudinal 

 brown streaks between the veins ; a narrow marginal brown 

 line and a clavate spot at end of cell. 



Exp. 2| inches. 



Uab. Shanghai. In coll. W. B. Pryer. 



Allied to P. f/risca, Brem. et Grey, from the Amui" Land. 



