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centre of the wing occupied by a very irregular broad central band bordered with dark brown 

 and limited externally by a slender white wavy line; its superior half subquadrate and divided 

 into three nearly equal areas, the area within the cell lilacine, with a central black dot, the 

 interior costal area pale creamy, the exterior costal area tawny ; inferior half subtriangular, 

 lilacine ; external third red-brown internally, lilacine clouded with blackish and whitish ex- 

 ternally ; an irregular subapical costal spot and below it four black spots with creamy borders 

 arranged in pairs ; external border dull orange, fringe dark brown : secondaries pale smoky 

 hrown, becoming white upon costal area ; fringe creamy whitish ; two irregular subparallel 

 dusky discal lines: head grey, collar lilacine with its posterior margin reddish; thorax 

 ochraceous, abdomen pale brown tinted with lilacine. Under surface sericeous, whity brown ; 

 a greyish diseal line : primaries with the central area greyish ; apex grey, fringe grey externally : 

 secondaries with a discocellular dot, a marginal series of dots, and a marginal line dark 

 grey. Expanse of wings 1 inch 2 lines. 

 Yokohama [Jonas). 



Egnasia pulcherrima. (Plate LVII. fig. 8.) 



Greyish stone-colour ; wings crossed by an olive-bordered lunulated white line, broken up 

 into separate lunnles on the secondaries : primaries with the basicostal area to apical third 

 clear rosy, clouded, streaked and externally bordered with gravel-yellow; a subapical, almost 

 cuneiform costal white patch, spotted and bordered with pale olive ; a snbtriangular blackish 

 patch at centre of external area, streaked and spotted with bright rose-colour and saffi-on- 

 yellow; a black spot just above the origin of the second and third median branches, and 

 below it a sinuous black line running to inner margin ; the space between the black line and 

 the basicostal area tinted with olive : secondaries with the base pale rose-coloured, limited 

 externally by a straight slender blackish line ; an irregular blackish line across the wing near 

 the base ; discal lunules terminating in a dark red and saflron-yellow dash upon the abdominal 

 area; palpi and back of head whitish ; thorax pale rose-colour, clouded with dull yellow; two 

 red-brown dots at base of abdomen. Under surface greyish stone-colour, blackish lines of the 

 upper surface replaced by greyish or dusky lines ; costal two thirds of primaries reddish, 

 terminating in a bifid white spot ; a submarginal series of black dots. Expanse of wings 

 1 inch 2 lines. 



Yokohama [Jonas) . 



Egnasia pusilla. (Plate LVII. fig. 9.) 



Pale brownish stone-colour ; wings with a marginal series of black dots ; wings crossed 

 by two very irregular slender white-edged black lines : primaries with an angulated black 

 stripe between the two black lines, the area between it and the outer line blackish ; a 

 white-edged black discocellular crescent-shaped spot : costal margin crossed by small black 

 and white dashes ; a blackish patch on the costa just beyond the outer transverse line ; an 



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