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mark in the cell ; an oblique dark streak from cell mark to the 

 dorsum near base ; a dark central shade, elbowed below costa ; post- 

 medial line brown dotted with black on the veins, preceded by a 

 series of brown dots between the veins; terminal dots black, inwardly 

 edged with white, placed between the veins, space between veins 

 3 and 4 tinged with reddish, and a short white streak projects inward 

 from the black dot in this space. Hind wings dark fuscous, fringes 

 whitish partly chequered with dark fuscous. Under side whitish 

 brown ; fore wings clouded with fuscous on the disc ; hind wings 

 clouded with fuscous, two curved, and somewhat wavy, dusky trans- 

 verse lines. 



Expanse, 48 millim. 



Collection number, 1231. 



Six male specimens from Kanshirei. One, September, 1907 ; 

 three, May, 1908, and two, July, 1908. 



One specimen, also from Kanshirei (Wileman), in the 

 British Museum, is slightly darker in colour than either of the 

 examples retained in my series. Very close to P. alhistriga, 

 Moore. 



Liparopsis formosana, sp. n. 



(? . Head and thorax brownish grey, collar whitish. Fore wings 

 whitish grey, finely powdered with dark grey ; basal area brownish 

 grey mixed with black at base of the wing, limited by an oblique 

 darker line ; postmedial line indicated by black edged white dots on 

 the veins ; terminal area brownish grey except towards the costa ; 

 terminal line black. Hind wings whitish powdered with dark grey 

 on costal area, some brownish hairs on the costal half, a black dot on 

 costa before apex. Under side whitish, disc of fore wings suffused 

 with fuscous. 



Expanse, 36 millim. 



Collection number, 744 



A male specimen from Kanshirei, September, 1908. 



NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 



EuKOis OCCULTA IN EssEX. — I am glad to be able to record the 

 occurrence of this fine moth in Essex. Four specimens were taken 

 at sugar on July 30th, 1914, in a wood not far from here by my 

 friends Messrs. J. F. Johnstone and C. Cork. They are all of the 

 dark form var. passetii. I am not aware of any previous record of 

 this moth having been taken in Essex, and it does not seem to have 

 been recorded at all recently from the southern half of England. — 

 (Eev.) T. Alfeed Stiff ; Grantham, Victor Drive, Leigh-on-Sea. 



Xanthorhoe galiata var. unilobata in Devon. — On July 21st 

 of this year I took a fine female X. galiata of the dark-banded 



