3S GEOMETEID^.— EPHTEID^. 



front and back of head Tvliite, vertex buif; antennte white, with testaceous pectinations; 

 thorax and abdomen sordid whitish. Wings below white, fringe spotted as above ; primaries with 

 greenish-clouded costal area and slightly yellowish costal margin ; a blackish discocellular 

 dot ; secondaries with three or four brown discal dots. Expanse of wings 1 inch 5 lines. 



Shanghai. 



Allied to C. bajidaria of Europe. 



TANAORHINUS, g. n. 



Allied to Geometra, but the palpi extremely long, the primaries falcate with straight outer 

 margin, the secondaries rounded and entire. Type T. confuciaria. 



Tanaorhinus confuciaria. (Plate L. fig. 4.) 

 Geometra confuciaria, Walker, Cat. Lej). Eet. xxii. p. 522. n. 30 (1861). 



Emerald-green ; wings with blackish discocellular dots ; primaries crossed near the base 

 l]y a dentate-sinuate creamy-white line ; a broad dentate-sinuate white belt traversed by an 

 undulated green line just beyond the middle; a very irregular deutated submarginal line : 

 secondaries crossed by a central white belt traversed by an undulated green line ; a very 

 irregular dentated line across the disk : head yellow at the sides, yellowish at the back ; 

 antennae white at the base and below, with testaceous pectinations ; palpi black above, white 

 bekTH' (excepting the terminal joint) ; abdomen cream-coloured. Wings below clearer green, 

 with larger black discocellular spots ; a straight purplish discal stripe, and two or three spots 

 ot the same colour beyond it on the secondaries ; body below white ; tibiae and tarsi above 

 green, the tibiae banded with black. Expanse of wings 3 inches. 



North China (Fortune) ; Yokohama [Jonas). 



EPHYEID.E. 



ANISODES, Guenee. 



Anisodes hadassa. (Plate L. fig. 5.) 



Anisodes hadassa, Butler, Aim. S,- Marj. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 400 (1878). 



Ochraceous, wings irrorated with grey, crossed by three more or less defined crenulate 

 grey lines bordered with dull lilacine (in some examples very indistinct) ; well-marked black 

 discocellular spots ; a marginal series of more or less defined blackish dots : primaries with the 

 costa more or less plumbaginous and transversely striated with grey : collar grey or plum- 

 baginous. Under surface paler and clearer ; primai'ies always with one well-marked discal 



