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end of cell, oblique patch below the cell, and elongate spots above 

 veins 0, 4, 3. Hind wing black-brown ; a hyaline patch below the 

 cell with a few yellow scales at inner margin conjoined to spots 

 above veins 2 and 3. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with hyaline spot above base of vein 2. 



Hab. C. China, Foo-chow (de hi Touche), 1 6 , Iehang (Pratt), 

 16 ; W. China, Kwei-chow, 1 d\ 1 ? . Exp. 40 millim. Type t 

 J in Coll. Rothschild. This may be a variety of A. torquata. 



*1G2 a. Amata fruhstorferi. 



Amata fruhstorferi, Eoths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 435 (1010), & xix. p. 375, 

 pl. iii. f. 26. 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown faintly tinged with 

 blue; frons white; antennae white at tips; pectus with yellow 

 patches ; tarsi white at base ; abdomen with orange bands on four 

 basal segments, the bands on 2nd and 3rd segments narrower. Fore 

 wing black-brown ; a conical hyaline patch below the cell near base, 

 a wedge-shaped patch in cell, an oblique patch below vein 2 

 extending to near termen and with its inner edge indented, an 

 elongate spot above vein G with small spot above vein 7, elongate 

 spots above veins -A, 3, and shorter spot above vein 2. Hind wing 

 blaek-brown ; a hyaline patch below the cell with some yellow at 

 inner margin, conjoined to a patch above veins 2 and 3 ; a minute 

 hyaline spot in cell above origin of vein 2 ; the underside with 

 yellow streak on basal half of costa. 



Hab. Tonkin, Manson Mts. (Fruhstorfer), type f £ in Coll. 

 Rothschild. Exp. 12 millim. 



104*7. Amata chloroscia. (Plate II. fig. 20.) 

 Syntowtis chloroscia, Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (7) viii. p. 168 (1901). 



5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen black tinged with golden green ; 

 frons, tegulse, upper edge of patagia, patches on pectus, coxte, and 

 femora above pale yellow; abdomen with dorsal patch on 1st 

 segment, lateral band on 2nd and complete bands on 3rd, 4th, and 

 5th segments pale yellow. Fore wing blue-black, the costa and 

 inner margin tinged with golden green ; some yellow at base of 

 inner margin ; wedge-shaped hyaline spots below base and in end 

 of cell ; an elongate spot below vein 2 dilated at basal end and 

 extending to near termen ; a streak above vein G and short streak 

 above 7, and elongate spots above veins 3 and o. Hind wing with 

 hyaline patch in and below the cell extending to near tornus and 

 tinged with yellow at base and on inner margin ; a patch beyond 

 the cell between veins 2 and 5. 



Hab. 13k. E. Afkica, Athi-ya-Mawe (Betton), 1 $ type. Exp 

 30 millim. 



