18 XILLS'ID^E. 



and a short oblique apical line black ; fringe intersected by a slightly darker line : secondaries 

 shining sordid white, with a broad pale broivn external border ; fringe white ; thorax greyish 

 brown, antennse ferruginous ; abdomen paler, whitish at the base and with a black dorsal tuft : 

 primaries below pale shining brown, becoming whitish towards the inner margin ; costa 

 beyond the cell dotted with black and whitish ; secondaries silvery white, with a whity- brown 

 costal spot and a discal stripe of the same colour; pectus creamy white, changing in front to 

 smoky brown; venter testaceous. Expanse of wings 1 inch 7 lines. 

 Yokohama [Jonas] . 



LITHOPHANE, Hiibner. 



Lithophaae saga. (Plate XLV. fig. 9.) 

 Lithophane saga, Butler, Ann. if Mag. Kat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 198 (1878). 



Primaries grey, with numerous black and brown dashes, four in the centre of the costa 

 oblique, two neai' external angle also oblique, but slanting upwards, the remainder longitu- 

 dinal ; a dusky oblique streak from the outer margin near the apex to the external third of 

 the inner margin; reniform spot barely perceptible ; an acutely undulated oblique discal line, 

 arched towards the costa, the external undulations partly filled in by black spots : secondaries 

 with the basal half sordid white, crossed by brown veins ; external half occupied by a very 

 broad smoky -brown border, upon which the veins look black; fringe sordid Mhite : head grey, 

 with black spots behind the eyes ; collar brown, with a central transverse black-edged grey 

 belt ; thorax grey, with a brown streak on each side ; abdomen whity brown, with dark 

 dorsal tufts. Primaries below smoky brown, the basal area and apical border pale ; secondaries 

 white, the costal area and outer margin sordid; a broad brown external band, a black spot 

 at the end of the cell, and a discal series of black dots on the veins ; pectus pale greyish ; 

 venter sordid white. Expanse of wings 2 inches 4 lines. 



Yokohama [Jonas). 



CUCULLIA, Ochs. 

 Cucullia fraterna. (Plate XLV. fig. 10.) 

 Cucullia fraterna, Butler, Ann. Sf Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 198 (1878). 



Nearly allied to C. lucifuga, but the primaries duller, with the spot in the cell black, 

 compressed and elongated ; secondaries pure white (with the veins and outer border brown, 

 and the costal area brownish, as in C. lucifuga) . Expanse of wings 2 inches 1 line. 



Hakodate [Whitely). 



