36 BOAEMIID^.— GEOMETEID.E. 



wings below white ; a broad discal blackish belt^ with straight internal edge, produced ex- 

 ternally in one or two places so as to touch the margin ; discocellular spots black ; primaries 

 with greyish basal area. Expanse of wings 1 inch 8 lines. 

 Yokohama (Jonas). 



Hypochroma snperans. (Plate XLIX. fig. 12.) 

 Hypochroma superans, Butler, Ann. ^ Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 398 (1878). 



Testaceous, the wings, excepting at the base, greenish sericeous crossed by multitudi- 

 nous short grey lines; black discocellular lines; an interrupted irregular white lunulated 

 discal stripe, indistinct in secondaries ; a submarginal series of white dots ; a marginal series 

 of black spots ; fringe rather long, ashy grey : primaries with black-spotted costa ; apex of 

 palpi and frons black. Under surface of the wings wliite, with the base yellow ; large black 

 discocellular patches ; a blackish spot in each discoidal cell, and below it a well-marked grey 

 longitudinal dash; a broad blackish discal belt crossed by au interrupted white line; a series 

 of black marginal spots : primaries with black-spotted costa ; external area streaked with 

 blackish : body ochraceous, legs above blackish. Expanse of wings 2 inches 6 lines. 



Yokohama [Jonas). 



ELPHOS, Guen. 

 Elphos latiferaria. (Plate XLIX. fig. 11.) 

 Pachyodes ? latiferaria, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. sxi. p. 445 (1860). 



Whity brown, clouded and streaked with burnt sienna, densely and transversely striated 

 with dark brown : primaries crossed beyond the cell by a broad angulated oblique white belt 

 (from costa to outer margin), striated with dark brown and bordered with blackish; wing 

 crossed by four brown stripes, the first basal, the second crossing the cell, interrupted, the 

 third at the end of the cell, the fourth blackish, abbreviated, crossing the inferior portion of 

 the disk; a blackish transverse subapical stripe : secondaries with pale external border, bounded 

 internally by a brown stripe, a second interrupted stripe across the middle of the wing : under 

 suiiace greyer, the markings less strongly defined. Expanse of wings 2 inches 1 line. 



North China [Fortune) . 



The measurement as given by Mr. Walker must be a misprint. 



GEOMETRID^. 

 JODIS, Hilbn. 



Jodis claripennis. (Plate XLIX. fig. 10.) 

 Jodis claripennis, Butler, Ann. ^ Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 399 (1878). 



Aspect of /. putataria, but of twice the size ; chalky white, with a faint greenish tint 



