64 HEEMINIIDiE. 



BLEPTINA, Guen. 

 Bleptina petrina. (Plate LVI. fig. 13.) 



Sandy whitish, speckled with brown : primaries with three subconical costal spots and a 

 very irregular external border dark brown ; an iU-defined central brownish line : secondaries 

 with an irregular central belt, a broad external border with zigzag inner edge, and with a zigzag 

 blackish line close to it, reddish brown ; all the wings with a marginal series of black dots : 

 head, thorax, and terminal half of abdomen greyish. Wings below sordid white, irrorated with 

 grey ; a spot on the costa beyond the middle and three dots towards apex slightly yellowish ; 

 a diffused dusky discal belt ; a dusky discocellular spot : secondaries with two parallel diffused 

 discal dusky lines and a discocellular spot ; all the wings with dusky marginal dots : body 

 sordid whitish. Expanse of wings 1 inch 1 line. 



Yokohama {Jonas). 



Bleptina lignea. (Plate LVI. fig. 14.) 



Pale reddish brown : wings with the centre of the disk (between the outer line and the 

 external border) whitish ; two irregularly dentate-sinuate blackish lines limiting the central 

 belt, which is also traversed externally by a blackish streak nearly parallel to the outer line ; 

 discocellulars black ; a slender black marginal line ; outer border irregularly sinuated and 

 with a dusky margin internally : primaries with a blackish subapical costal spot enclosing a 

 whitish dot upon the margin : abdomen crossed by a nearly central dusky belt. Under surface 

 sericeous ; wings grey, with blackish discocellulars. Expanse of wings 1 inch 1 line. 



Yokohama {Jonas}. 



Bleptina morosa. (Plate LVI. fig. 15.) 



Primaries above fuliginous brown, paler upon the basicostal area ; three blackish spots 

 arranged in a triangular form at the base, an ill-defined blackish line across the basal area ; 

 discocellulars blackish ; a very irregular jjale-bordered blackish central line ; a very irregular 

 discal whitish line ; a marginal series of pale-edged blackish spots : secondaries much paler, with 

 a slender dusky marginal line ; fringe whitish, traversed by a central dusky line : body fuliginous 

 brown, rather paler than the primaries. Wings below pale greyish brown, more or less irro- 

 rated with white, with a marginal series of white-edged black spots ; fi-inge whitish, traversed 

 by a grey line ; primaries with two white costal dashes beyond the middle : secondaries with a 

 black discoceUulai- spot and two whitish-bordered dusky discal lines. Expanse of wings 

 1 inch. 



Yokohama {Jonas). 



