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The claviform brown-black, encircled with intense black. The cunei- 

 form spots in the subterminal space are also noticeable. The inferior 

 wings grey, paler at base, with the discoidal lunule and transverse 

 line darker " (I c. 1856, pt. ii., p. 35). 



Of this variety Staudinger writes : " Keceived in small numbers 

 from Saisan, and a pair of specimens also from Lepsa, taken on the 

 21st of May. Bombycina is on the average, considerably smaller than 

 German leucophcea, and the markings of the fore wings are always 

 particularly lighter and more distinct. This ordinarily comes about 

 owing to the nervures being white and the markings black, the latter 

 standing out clearly and distinctly. The cuneiform spots are ex- 

 ceptionally black and conspicuous. A couple of males are very dark " 

 (' Stettiner entomologische Zeitung,' vol. xliii., p. 35). 



Charceas, St., graminis, L. 



Vol. i., p. 131. Charceas graminis var. albineura, Bdv. I have 

 been able to refer to Boisduval's figures and find that his figure of graminis 

 represents the form of gramineus of Haworth, whilst his figure called 

 albineura closely resembles my var. rufa = the tricuspis of Hiibner. 

 " The anterior wings are brownish-grey with a reddish tint towards 

 the inner margin, the costa ochreous, the nervures pale (whitish), the 

 reniform and orbicular white, the transverse subterminal band ochreous, 

 whilst there is a row of dark spots between the nervures, between the 

 subtermiual space, and the outer margin " (' Icones,' pi. 74, fig. 4). 



AporopJiyla, Gn., australis, Bdv. 



Vol. i., p. 131. Aporophyla australis. Duponchel gives the 

 following very interesting account of this species : " M. Boisduval, 

 after having placed this species among the Xylinidce in the first edition 

 of his ' Index,' placed it among the Hadenidce in the second, but we 

 consider it belongs to neither of these families, and that it ought to 

 form, with other allied species, a special genus which we propose 

 establishing. 



" This species varies very much in the depth of the ground colour, 

 but the persistence of the same design in all specimens makes it easily 

 recognised. The upper wings are of a grey, more or less white above, 

 often shaded with red ; sometimes they are entirely red or even black- 

 ish, and in this case, the two inner transverse lines are ordinarily more 

 or less bordered with whitish-grey. Of the three transverse lines, the 

 innermost is the most apparent. It is lightly sinuous, and composed 

 of a series of small black or brown or cuneiform spots ; the space be- 

 tween this and the fringe is more or less pale, and bordered entirely 

 by a row of small black lunules, which separate it from the fringe. 

 The latter is brown, toothed, and intersected with reddish-grey. The 

 median line is very much angulated like a saw ; the inner is equally 

 angulated and forms posteriorly two very elongated angles. These 

 two lines finely marked in black, are absent in many specimens. The 

 space which separates them is often traversed by an irregular brownish 

 hand. In the superior part of this band one notices the two ordinary 

 stigmata, of which the orbicular is oblong and placed obliquely ; the 

 reniform is almost triangular, a little reddish towards its outer border, 

 and marked with two or three brown streaks. Between the median 

 and sub-median nervures, one sees a third stigma of elliptical shape, 



