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margin before middle, on each side of the postmedial line, and 

 before the subterminal line. 



Hah. Japan, Tokio {Maries), 1 2 type, Yokohama (Fryer), 1 $, 

 Gifu (Fryer), 1 c? , 1 $ ; Centk. China, Ichang (Mrs. Fratt), 1 J ; 

 W. China, Chia-kou-ho (Fratt), 1 c? , 2 $ , Washan (Fratt), 1 $ , 

 Kwei-chou, 1 $ , Ta-chien-lu (Fratt), 1 $ ; Sikhim, 1 5 type 

 striyipennis. Exp. 44-60 millira. 



7620. Ercheia snbsignata. 



Achcea suhsignata, Wlk. xxsiii. 959 (1805); Holl. Psyche, vii. pi. ii. f. 9. 

 Melipotis mahagonica, Saalm. Lep. Madiig, p. 442, f. 184 (1901). 

 Krcheia periploca, Holl. Psyche, yii. p. 68, pi. ii. f. 8 ("1894). 



Head and thorax red-brown ; palpi banded pale and dark brown ; 

 legs reddish and dark brown ; abdomen grey -brown, the ventral 

 sui-face pale brown. Pore wing fuscous brown mottled with pale 

 red-brown, the inner and terminal areas red-browni ; a sinuous 

 black subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial 

 line black, slightly angled outwards below costa, incurved to vein 1, 

 then excurved and obsolescent ; a black point in middle of cell ; 

 reniforni pale reddish faintly defined by blackish and with white 

 points at its upper and lower extremities; postmedial line double, 

 black, slightly sinuous towards costa and waved below submedian 

 fold, excurved from costa to vein 3, then oblique ; subterminal 

 line indistinct, pale, waved, with slight black marks beyond it 

 below apex, black streaks Ijefore it above and below vein 7, and 

 black bars on its outer side below vein 3 and in submedian inter- 

 space ; the termen with dark patches at discal fold and between 

 veins 3 and 2 ; a slight waved dark terminal line with black points 

 at the interspaces ; cilia fuscous and reddish brow'n. Hind wnng 

 fuscous brown; the termen and cilia white from below apex to 

 below vein 5, and the cilia whitish in submedian interspace. 

 Underside of fore wing grey-brown, the costa and termen to vein 3 

 pale irrorated with brown, an oblique white postmedial band, 

 traces of a pale waved subterminal line, and a series of black points 

 before termen ; hind wing whitish suffused and irrorated with 

 black-brown, a blackish discoidal s])ot, oblique sinuous postmedial 

 line, broad dark subterminal shade with a waved whitish line on it, 

 and a waved black terminal line. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing more uniform fuscous brown. 



Ab. 2. peripJoca. Fore wing fuscous brown with the inner and 

 terminal areas grey-brown, a diffused blackish fascia in submedian 

 interspace. 



Ab. 3. Fore wing with black spots in submedian interspace 

 before the antemedial and medial lines and beyond the postmedial 

 line. 



Ab. 4. Fore wing with the medial area grey to the annulus 

 below end of cell and submedian fold, the basal and inner areas 

 darker. 



