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the orbicular and reniform spots more or less strongly outlined in white; costa white-spotted, 

 most strongly beyond the middle ; a more or less well-marked squamose patch of yellowish 

 scales just beyond the reniform spot; a transverse bracket-like white line followed by a 

 yellowish streak near the external angle ; a 3-shaped pale line, bordered outwardly with deep 

 black, near the base ; fringe of all the wings white-spotted and with basal and central pale 

 lines : secondaries shining greyish brown. Wings below much as in E. fuscula, but darker. 

 Expanse of Avings 1 inch 1 line. 

 Yokohama (Jonas). 



ERIOPID^. 



CALLOPISTRIA, Hiibner. 



Callopistria obsctira. (Plate XLVI. fig. 3.) 



Callopistria obscura, Butler, Ann. Sj- Mag. Nat. Eist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 200 (1878). 



Allied to C. pteridis, but the ground-colour of the primaries sepia-brown, more or less 

 irrorated with tawny, the transverse lines wider apart and bordered by sericeous grey (not 

 rosy lilaciue) , the veins whiter, the marginal spots narrower and blackish ; secondaries rather 

 paler than the primaries, with whitish costa and outer border ; body altogether duller and 

 greyer than in C. pteridis : primaries below grey, with sandy whitish borders ; secondaries 

 sericeous whitish, with greyish subapical spot, discal line, and discocellular spot ; body below 

 sandy whitish. Expanse of wings 1 inch 5 lines. 

 • Hakodate {IVhitely) ; Yokohama [Jonas). 



Callopistria asthiops. (Plate XLVI. fig. 4.) 

 Callopistria sethiops, Butler, Ann. ^ Mag. Nat Ilist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 200 (1878). 



Allied to C. exotica, but the primaries almost black, crossed by silvery white lines, the 

 oblique white-edged dash at the end of the cell tapering downwards to a point and almost 

 uniting with the interno-median band, which is oblique, the band across the cell also well 

 marked and oblique, so that the three markings together form a y ; the white apical dash 

 represented by three decreasing oblique white lines, the lowermost of which joins a ^-shaped 

 white figure (replacing the lanceolate mark of C. exotica) ; outer border narrow, black witli 

 white edge : secondaries silvery whitish ; the veins, an indistinct abbreviated discal line, and a 

 broad diffused outer border greyish : body whitish, collar banded with black ; base of tegulte 

 testaceous, anal tuft ochraceous. Wings below silvery whitish ; primaries with the discoidal 

 area and two white-bordered discal streaks greyish ; secondaries with the discoeellulars and 

 two apical streaks parallel to the outer margin greyish brown ; body whitish. Expanse of 

 wings 1 inch 1 line. 



Yokohama [Jonas). 



