362 NOCTCID^. 



inner margin ; traces of a waved grey subtermiual line. Hind 

 wing red-brown with a faint olive tinge, the base and termen 

 greyish ; a diffused dark oblique antemedial line and oblique dark 

 medial and subterminal lines defined on outer side by grej-. Under- 

 side of both wings scarlet thickly irrorated with fuscous ; fore wing 

 with dark spot in middle of cell and discoidal striga ; hind wing 

 with discoidal point ; both wings with curved medial line, curved 

 waved postmedial line, and curved subterminal line. 



Ab. 1. cJ . -Fore wing with large dark spot beyond lower angle 

 of cell. 



Ab. 2. cJ . Fore wing with the spot beyond lower angle of cell 

 conjoined to the spot above it forming a bilobate mark, the upper 

 spot separate. 



Ab. 3. 5 • Thorax and wings more ochreous and less suffused 

 with olive-brown. 



Hah. Japan, Tokio {Maries), 1 J , 3 $ type cegrota, Nikko 

 (Maries), 1 c? , Yokohama (Jonas), 2 c? , 1 $ type ; C. China, 

 Kiukiang (Pratt), 12; W. China, Omei-shan, 1 J ; Hongkong 

 (^Leech), 1 J type. E,v2y. 68-84 mlllim. 



Genus COMETASTER, nov. 



Type, C. pyrula. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reacbing to about 

 middle of frons and rather broadly scaled, the 3rd short ; frons smooth, witli 

 tuft of hair ; eyes large, round ; antennae of male bipectinate to apex with rather 

 long branches ending in a bristle ; thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed 

 and without crests ; all the tibiae spined, the fore tibije fringed with long hair 

 on outer side, the mid and hind tibiae smoothly scaled ; abdomen without 

 crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and 

 slightly crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 

 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing 

 with the cell about one- third length of wing, veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 

 5 fully developed from just above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anasto- 

 niosiug with the cell near base only. 



7474. Cometaster pyrula. 



Spirajnapyrula, Hppfr. Mon. Kongl. Akad. Wiss. Berl. 1857, p. 422; id. 



Pelers's Reise Mosamb. p. 435, pi. 28. ff. 10, 11. 

 Spirama lucicla, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 113. f. 8 (1874). 



Head and tegulte brown mixed with some grey ; thorax grey- 

 white irrorated with brown ; fore legs suffused with brown ; 

 abdomen grey-white dorsally thickly irrorated with dark brown 

 and with dark brown segmental lines. Fore wing grey-white, the 

 basal and costal areas irrorated with brown ; the costal edge dark 

 brown towards base ; a slight oblique waved subbasal line from 

 costa to' submedian fold ; antemedial line black-brown, slight and 

 acutely angled outwards in npper angle of cell, then forming a 

 narrow band, very oblique to inner margin near base where there 

 are a few silvery blue scales on it ; a large inverted comma-shaped 

 discoidal mark, its centre black with some red-brown at middle, its 



