48 ZEEEXIDiE. 



ochreous on tlie costal border, the basal area only marked with one large blackish blotch : 

 body below white ; abdomen belted with grey. Expanse of wings 2 inches 6-8 lines. 

 Yokohama (Jonas) ; Hakodate {ffliitely). 



ABRAXAS, Leach. 



Abraxas conspurcata. (Plate LII. fig. 11.) 

 Abraxas conspurcata, Butler, Ann. ^ Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol i. p. 440 (1878). 



Like heavily spotted varieties of A. grossulariata, but differing in that the two discal 

 series of black blotches are complete in the secondaries as well as in the primaries and are 

 nearer to the outer margin; also in the broadly black basal area of the secondaries. Expanse 

 of wings 1 inch 7 lines. 



Yokohama [Jonas). 



Abraxas miranda. (Plate LII. fig. 12.) 

 Abraxas miranda, Butler, Ann. (Sf Mag. Nut. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 441 (1878). 



Allied to A. leopardinata from India, but larger ; the primaries with broader and darker 

 basal and internal patches ; the costa blotched with grey throughout, the patch over the end 

 of the cell much larger and confluent with the costal patch ; the transverse grey belt below it 

 placed nearer to the middle of the wing and, in the female, touching the dark internal patch ; 

 two confused parallel discal series of grey blotches ; a number of small grey spots forming two 

 imperfect j)arallel series on the externo-discal area : the secondaries vnth. a complete grey belt 

 across the cell ; two somewhat confused discal series of grey blotches terminating in the usvial 

 dark internal patch ; external area spotted with grey ; marginal blotches partially confluent : 

 body similar. Expanse of wings, 6 2 inches, ? 2 inches 4 lines. 



Yokohama [Jonas). 



Abraxas placida. (Plate LIII. fig. 1.) 

 Abraxas placida, Butler, Ann. ^- Marj. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 441 (1878). 



White, with ochraceous body ; wings with ochreous outer border and black-spotted orange 

 fringe ; an exteruo-discal series of black spots, imperfect in secondaries ; base ochraceous, 

 spotted with black ; primaries with three subbasal blackish spots ; an irregular central band 

 formed of blackish blotches ; two black costal spots near apex : secondaries with a central 

 irregular band formed of blackish lines ; shoulders and palpi blackish. Wings below nearly as 

 above. Expanse of wings 1 inch .T lines. 



Hakodate [Whitely). 



