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fringes ochreous brown, preceded by interrupted black line. Under 

 side paler, markings of upper side faintly shown on fore wings. 



Expanse, 56 millim. 



Collection number, 806 b. 



One example of each sex from Arizan, August, 1908. 



The female has the basal area of fore wings almost devoid of 

 scales. On the hind wings the discoidal spot and postmedial 

 line are indistinct, but there is a dusky spot on terminal area 

 between veins four and six. 



Arichanna (?) nigrifasciata, sp. n. 



Fore wings pale ochreous, suffused with olive ; veins flecked with 

 white ; antemedial line black, interrupted above and below median 

 nervure, outwardly edged with white, and followed by a black band 

 which is broadest on dorsum ; postmedial line black edged with 

 white, broad on costa, and represented by dots on veins three to five ; 

 subterminal line white, wavy, interrupted, black spots on inner edge 

 at each extremity and between veins four and six ; termen clouded 

 with black towards apex and tornus. Hind wings pale ochreous, 

 finely flecked with black, inclining to greyish on basal area ; discoidal 

 spot and medial line blackish, the latter dotted with black on the 

 veins, and faintly edged with whitish ; subterminal band indicated 

 by a black mark on costa, a large black spot between veins six and 

 four, and a black curved streak from vein three to dorsum near 

 tornus ; black dots on termen between the veins. Under side similar 

 but paler. 



Expanse, 39 millim. 



Collection number, 804. 



A female specimen from Arizan (7300 ft.), August, 1908. 



Gnophos punctivenaria taiwana, var. nov. 



Formosan specimens are rather darker in marking than those 

 from Western China. The space between ante- and postmedial lines 

 is whiter, especially towards the costa ; subterminal line whiter and 

 more distinct. 



Collection number, 1589. 



Two male specimens from Rantaizan (7500 ft.), May, 1909. 



RHYACIONIA (RETINIA) PURDEYI, Durrant, and 



R. LOOMA, Durrant. 



By Richard South. 



In the * Entomologist's Monthly Magazine ' for November, 

 1911 (vol. xlvii. p. 252), Mr. H. Durrant describes two new 

 species of Rhyacionia, Hiibn. {Retinia, Guen,). The specimens 

 of R. purdeyi, eight in number, were submitted for identification 

 by the Hon. N. Charles Rothschild. They were taken at Folke^ 



