42 MICEONIID^. 



MICRONIID^. 



EROSIA, Guenee. 

 Erosia rapha. (Plate LI. fig. 5.) 

 Erosia rapha, Butler, Anti. Sf Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 403 (1878). 



Snow-white ; wings crossed near the base by a semicircular series of dark brown dots : 

 primaries with a very irregular red-brown discal baud, margined and intersected by blackish 

 lines and bounded externally by large subconflucnt black spots ; two subapical black dots con- 

 nected with the apex by a black line ; a sigmoidal pale-brown marking near the outer margin ; 

 base of costa blackish : secondaries with the external area excepting at apex broadly red- 

 brown, interrupted by one or two small white spots, and internally by an angulated white- 

 edged brown discal hue ; margin from the superior caudal process downwards dark brown ; a 

 black dot below the inferior process : body spotted with blackish. Under surface white ; basal 

 area sordid; external area, especially of primaries, varied with smoky brown. Expanse 

 of mugs 11 lines. 



Hakodate [Whitely). 



Erosia azela. (Plate LI. fig. 6.) 

 Erosia azela, Butler, Ann. ^ Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 403 (1878). 



Primaries above with the basal two thirds, excepting a creamy patch at centre of inner 

 margin, chocolate-brown, crossed by two parallel tawny transverse lines ; external area silvery 

 white, brown-speckled internally, and interrupted by a marginal series of triangular brown 

 spots : secondaries with the basal half cream-coloured, bounded by a brown discal belt ; 

 external area silvery white ; marginal spots as in primaries, but smaller ; fringe spotted with 

 brown : head and thorax blackish ; shoulders plumbaginous ; abdomen cream-coloured. 

 Under surface altogether paler, but very similar in character to the upper surface. Expanse 

 of ivings 1 1 lines. 



Yokohama {Jonas). 



Erosia moza. (Plate LI. fig. 7.) 



Erosia moza, Butler, Ann. ^ Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 402 (1878). 



Shining greyish brown, reticulated with slaty grey; fringe dark brown: primaries 

 crossed near the base by an arched dark brown line ; an oblique abbreviated dark brown line 

 from the eosta beyond the middle ; a dark brown quadrate spot bounded externally by a black 

 f"-sliaped marking on the inner margin, and a reddish-brown streak spotted with black near 

 the outer margin : secondaries crossed near the base by a black line ; a black angulated and 

 sinuated discal line, edged externally with white, and partly bounded internally by a tawny 



