of Heterocera from Japan. 481 



transverse dark red-brown discal line ; two ochre-bordered 

 cream -colom-ed spots at the end of the cell ; crest (formed by 

 the conjunction of the tegulte) considerably higher and dis- 

 tinctly bordered with yellowish clay-colour; head, collar, 

 ventral surface of the body and secondaries below cream-colour 

 instead of white. Expanse 3 inches 8 lines. 

 Yokohama {Jonas). 



53. Odonestis excellens^ n. sp. 



($ . Primaries deep sordid ochreous or gravel-yellow, with 

 a white spot at the end of the cell, outer border broadly and 

 irregularly chocolate-brown ; base brownish, enclosing a large 

 subcostal spot of the ground-colour ; three equidistant zigzag 

 lunulated brown stripes, the areabetween the first two brownish; 

 secondaries chocolate-brown, with a central diffused darker 

 band : body deep sordid ochreous ; antennas cream-coloured, 

 with brown pectinations : wings below ochraceous, with 

 three subparallel transverse brown streaks, the two outer 

 ones on the secondaries macular. Female sordid testaceous, 

 with markings as in the male, but far less distinct. Expanse, 

 ($ 2 inches 10 lines, ? 3 inches 6 lines. 



Yokohama {Jonas). 



Allied to O. sodalis from China and " Lebeda " undans 

 from Silhet. 



54. Odonestis superans^ n. sp. 



Smoky brown, with a white spot at the end of the cell ; 

 primaries with an irregularly sinuous disco-submarginal whitish- 

 bordered dusky stripe, a slender transverse broadly sinuated 

 discal line ; male rather paler than the female, the primaries 

 with a large white subcostal spot near the base, an angulated 

 transverse subbasal line, the centre of interno-median area 

 occupied by a broad white nebula : wings below uniform in 

 colouring, with an indication of a diffused darker discal streak 

 across both wings. Expanse, ($ 3 inches 3 lines, ? 4 inches 

 3 lines. 



Yokohama {Jonas). 



55. Odonestis spectahilis. 



? . Like the preceding, excepting that the primaries and 

 thorax are black, and the whitish border of the disco-submar- 

 ginal stripe is replaced by white spots ; no white spot at the 

 end of the cell ; the under surface with dusky-streaked exter- 

 nal area to primaries and black prothorax ; ground-colour of 

 the wings redder. Expanse 4 inches. 



Yokohama {Jonas). 

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