BIZIA.— NIPHOXISSA. 31 



BIZIA, Walker. 



Bizia aexaria. (Plate XL VIII. fig. 5.) 



Bizia sexaria, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. xx. p. 261 (1860). 



Endropia mibuaria, Felder, Reise der Nov. Lep. v. Taf. cxxiii. fig. 31 (1875). 



Stramineous : wings above spotted with ochraceous and crossed from the end of the cell 

 of primaries to the abdominal margin of secondaries by a sordid ochraceous stripe : primaries 

 with ])ale costal border, the margin flecked with black-brown ; a large brown spot before the 

 middle and a second beyond the cell ; a sinuous series of brown dots upon ochraceous spots 

 crossing the disk ; outer border broadly ferruginous, striated with grey and spotted with 

 black : secondaries with a large apical ferruginous spot streaked with grey ; fringe spotted 

 with feri-uginous at the end of the veins : upper sm-face of palpi, head, and anterior legs, and 

 both surfaces of the antennaj black-brown. "VVings below with the markings better defined 

 than above, red-brown, the basal area speckled with blackish ; otherwise as above. Expanse 

 of wings 2 inches 2 lines. 



North China [Fortune) ; Yokohama (Jonas) ; Mongolia (Swinhoe) . 



COEYPHA, Walker. 



Corypha incongruaria. (Plate XLVIII. fig. 6.) 

 Corypha incongruaria, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. xx. p. 270 (1860). 



Stramineous, irrorated with ferruginous; a submarginal sinuous subconfluent series of 

 dusky spots : primaries crossed by three nearly equidistant brown lines, the two inner ones 

 partly suffused with bright ochreous scales, the innermost one angulated near the costa ; 

 external area, from the outermost line, pale purplish brown : secondaries crossed by two 

 central and slightly convergent subangulated brown lines, between which and the submarginal 

 series of dusky spots the ground-colour is slightly brownish. Under surface clearer, the wings 

 densely speckled with ferruginous and crossed by two ferruginous lines. Expanse of wings 

 1 inch 10 lines. 



North China [Fortune). 



(ENOCHPtOMIID^. 



NIPHONISSA, Butler. 



Niphonissa arida. (Plate XLVIII. fig. 7.) 



Niphonissa arida, Butler, Ann. Sf Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 394 (1878). 



Primaries above pale sandy brown, speckled with grey; an oblique grey discal line ; a 

 black-edged whitish discocellular dot ; apical half of costal margin ochreous ; fringe very 



