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Herminia griselda. (Plate LVI. fig. 9.) 



Greyish brown : primaries very slightly tinted with lilacine, crossed at the middle by two 

 widely separated dark-brown lines^ the firsts at basal third, nearly straight, the second sharply 

 angulated at upper radial nervure ; a slightly curved ochre-bordered dark brown stripe from 

 the apex to the inner margin close to external angle ; a brown >-shaped discocellular marking ; 

 a slender black marginal line : secondaries with the usual whitish-bordered brown lines near 

 anal angle ; a slender black marginal line. "Wings below tinted with sandy yellowish, fringes 

 grey, marginal line black : primaries crossed by a sinuous dusky discal line : secondaries 

 crossed by two parallel slightly irregulai' dusky discal lines ; a black discocellular spot. 

 Expanse of wings 1 inch 4 lines. 



Yokohama [Jonas). 



Herminia innocens. (Plate LVI. fig. 10.) 



Primaries above silvery grey ; the basal half of costa, a central belt, and the external area 

 olive-brown ; three slightly irregular blackish lines, the first two on either side of the central 

 belt, the third from near apex to external angle ; a slender and slightly interrupted black 

 marginal line : secondaries sordid whitish, with the two usual disco-anal dusky lines ; a slender 

 marginal black line ; fringe grey, white at the base. Under surface whitish, speckled with 

 brown ; discal lines nearly as above : primaries with the discoidal and interno-discal areas 

 darker, greyish : secondaries with a dusky discocellular spot. Expanse of wings 1 inch. 



Yokohama [Jonas). 



Herminia pryeri. (Plate LVI. fig. 11.) 



Greyish brown, with a distinct rosy shot : primaries crossed by four nearly equidistant 

 oblique blackish stripes, the outermost bordered and crossed near apex by a white line ; a 

 cream-coloured spot at the end of the cell; a marginal series of subconflvient triangular black 

 spots followed by a slender white line : secondaries crossed by three dai-k lines, which fade 

 away before reaching the costal margin, the outermost black, edged with white ; a marginal 

 white-edged black line : abdomen somewhat pearly, with dusky borders to the segments. Under 

 surface greyish brown, the markings much less distinct than above. Expanse of wings 1 inch. 



Yokohama [Jonas). 



Herminia fentoni. (Plate LVI. fig. 12.) 



Greyish brown, crossed by four nearly equidistant dark-brown lines, the first three 

 irregularly undulated, the fourth sinuous, with white external edge ; a marginal series of dark- 

 brown triangular spots ; fringe alternately grey and whitish from the base outwards : 

 primaries with a black-dotted testaceous discocellular spot. Wings below speckled with dark 

 brown ; discocellulars black ; lines as above. Expanse of wings 1 inch. 



Yokohama [Jonas). 



