CACOECIA.— PHOXOPTEETX. 79 



CACOECIA, Hiibn. 



Cacoecia similis. (Plate LX. fig. 4.) 



Nearly allied to C. podana of Europe, but the primaries laky browu, tinted here and 

 there with lilac, reticulated with blackish and banded with deep ferruginous : the secondaries 

 also much deeper in tint. Under surface brilliant golden cupreous. Expanse of wings 1 inch 

 3 lines. 



Yokohama [Jonas). 



The European species looks dull and worn by the side of this form. 



SCIAPHILA, Treit. 



Sciaphila fumida. (Plate LX. fig. 5.) 



Primaries smoky greyish brown, sericeous ; discocellular spot blackish : secondaries 

 white, becoming greyish towards the outer margin, which is narrowly smoky brown ; body 

 grey, mottled and banded with black. Primaries below with the basal two thirds greyish 

 white, with pink costal margin ; venter whitish, banded with grey ; legs grey, banded with 

 black ; otherwise as above. Expanse of wings 10 lines. 



Yokohama [Jonas). 



Sciaphila cupreifera. (Plate LX. fig. 6.) 



Primaries white, densely speckled with black ; two or three small scattered black spots 

 and a marginal series ; two abbreviated oblique cupreous-brown belts from the costa ; fringe 

 brown : secondaries greyish brown, with the fringe and basal area whitish : body corresponding 

 with the wings in colour. Under surface white, the costal borders of the wings and body 

 cream-coloured speckled with black ; primaries with a subapical blackish patch and a series 

 of black marginal spots. Expanse of wings 9 lines. 



Yokohama [Jonas) . 



PHOXOPTERYX, Treit. 



Phoxopteryx pulchra. (Plate LX. fig. 7.) 



Primaries shining creamy whitish ; costal margin, excepting at apex, crossed by numerous 

 little black dashes ; a large irregular black-mottled grey patch on .interno-basal area ; re- 

 mainder of internal area dusky; a broad irregular oblique red-brown belt just beyond the 

 middle ; two or three streaks and a triangular spot of red-brown at apex ; fringe wliite : 

 secondaries grey ; the basicostal area and a line at the base of the fringe white : body 



