ABEAXAS.— LOMASPILIS. 49 



Abraxas plurilineata. (Plate LIII. fig. 2.) 



Abraxas plurilineata, WaU-ei-, Cat. Lep. Hit. xxiv. p. 1123 (1862). 



Primaries white, base yellowish ; the basal half crossed by eight oblique dark brown 

 stripes ; three transverse brown stripes just beyond the middle, two across the disk, a third 

 abbreviated towards the apex, and one submai'ginal ; a marginal dark brown line : secondaries 

 yellowish, especially towards the anal angle ; basal area greyish ; four ill-defined abbreviated 

 dark brown central lines arranged in pairs ; a dark brown abbreviated belt from the apex to 

 the third median branch and a spot on the second median interspace ; two marginal dark 

 brown dots near the anal angle: head white, spotted with black; thorax white, striped with 

 black ; abdomen yellow, with lateral black dots. Primaries below nearly as above : secondaries 

 with a blackish subcostal spot near the base, a central dark brown line followed immediately 

 by two others ; two discal stripes not reaching the abdominal margin ; a small apical spot or 

 dash and a submarginal dot close to it, all dark brown ; venter white, with two longitudinal 

 sti-ipes of black ; legs cream-coloui'ed, tibije blackish at each end. Expanse of wings 1 inch 

 2 lines. 



North China (Fortune). 



Allied to A. junctilineata, but resembling the genus Pi/rcnarmon among the Pyrales. 



DEROCA, Walker. 

 Deroca phasma. (Plate LIII. fig. 4.) 

 Deroca phasma, Butler, Ann. ^ Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 442 (1878). 



S . Hyaline, snow-white : primaries with three grey spots across the basal half of the costa, 

 a fourth above the end of the cell, and a larger spot at the end of the cell ; a large grey apical 

 patch crossed by a trifid white patch, and a similar smaller patch at the external angle : 

 antenuEe with grey pectinations ; abdomen grey, crossed by white segmental lines. Wings 

 below nearly as above, but the grey markings darker and the costal spots on the basal half 

 confluent ; body below cream-coloured. Expanse of wings 1 inch 4 lines. 



$ . Larger, iridescent, with paler markings. Expanse of wings 1 inch 6 lines. 

 Yokohama {Jonas). 



LOMASPILIS, Hdbn. 



Lomaspilis opis. (Plate LIII. fig. 3.) 



Lomaspilis opis, Butler, Ann. cf* Ma(j. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 442 (1878). 



Wings creamy white : primaries with the basal fourth, three large blotches across the 

 centre (the two uppermost confluent), the apex, outer margin, and external angle pale purplish 

 brown : secondaries with three blotches across the centre, the apex, a subapical marginal spot, 



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