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edged and speckled pale greyish belt, concave internally, unequally bisiuuated externally ; base 

 greyish ; outer border pale, bordered internally by an irregularly sinuated white line ; a series 

 of black marginal spots ; fi'inge white, grey-speckled at base : secondaries pale greyish, speckled 

 with grey, streaked with blackish on the abdominal area at anal angle; a black marginal line : 

 body grey, black-spotted. Under surface greyish: wings with bronze-tinted borders and 

 blackish discocellular dots ; secondaries speckled with grey. Expanse of wings 1 inch 6 lines. 

 Yokohama (Jonas). 



LAEEA^TIIDiE. 



LARENTIA, Dup. 

 Larentia hemana. (Plate LIU. fig. 8.) 



Lareutia hemana, Butler, Ann. 4' Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. \). 444(1878). 



Closely allied to L. saJicata, but the central band of primaries of nearly twice the width, 

 the wings altogether paler, and the secondaries similar in marking to those of L. ccesiata. 

 Expanse of wings 1 inch 2 lines. 



Yokohama {Jonas). 



EUPITHECIA, Curtis. 

 Eupithecia sophia. (Plate LIU. fig. 9.) 

 Eupithecia sophia, Butler, Ann. ^ Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 44-1 (1878). 



Allied to E. denticulata of Europe ; sordid white, with pale greyish outer borders and 

 fringes to the wings and black discocellular spots : primaries with the basal half of costa and the 

 basal area blackish, crossed by irregular white lines ; remainder of the wing crossed alternately 

 by grey, belts and white lines, the widest of which form an indistinct central oblique band ; all 

 the lines zigzag : secondai-ies crossed by one or two indistinct greyish lines. Wings below 

 whiter, shining, the markings of the primaries only visible through the wings, excepting upon 

 the costal border. Expanse of wings 9 lines. 



Yokohama [Jonas). 



Eupithecia invisa. (Plate LIU. fig. 10.) 

 Eupithecia invisa, Butler, Ann. cf- Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 444 (1878). 



Pale silky greyish ; external area of wings crossed by five slightly irregular parallel grey 

 lines, most distinct on the primaries, the two inner lines dotted with black upon the nci'vures ; 

 discocellular spots black: primaries with the costa dusky, crossed by dark spots ; a very ill - 

 defined oblique belt across the centre of the wing, but scarcely darker than the ground-colour. 

 Under surface whitish ; the discal lines indicated by a series of dusky spots, two at costa of 

 primaries blackish ; discocellular spots black. Expanse of wings 1 inch. 



Hakodate [Whitely). 



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