590 XOCTUID.^. 



abdomen dark brown tinged with grey. Fore wing dark brown 

 mixed with red-brown and grey ; an indistinct curved greyish 

 subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line black 

 defined on inner side by red-brown, slightly angled outwards below 

 costa, then sinuous and slightly angled inwards on vein 1 ; orbicular, 

 reniform, and a spot below outer edge of former large, grey with 

 some dark brown in centres, defined by black and with some raised 

 scales on their edges ; postmedial line double, the inner line black, 

 the outer red-brown, slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved 

 to discal fold, then oblique, some greyish points beyond it on costa ; 

 subterminal line grey defined on each side by diffused brown, 

 somewhat excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a black terminal 

 line. Hind wing dark brown with a ciipreous gloss ; cilia white, 

 tinged with brown at apex ; the underside with the basal half 

 whitish suffused with brown, a slight dark discoidal lunule and 

 curved postmedial line. 



Hob. Japan, Oiwake {Pri/er), 1 5 , Yokohama {Prt/er), 3 cJ , 

 5 $ type, Kiushiu, 1 2 • ^^JP- 26-32 millim. 



8442. Abrostola canariensis, n. sp. (Plate CCXXXIX. fig. 31.) 



S . Head and thorax grey mixed with some blackish, the vertex 

 of head, tegulae, and dorsum of thorax ochreous and rufous ; palpi 

 and pectus in front black-brown ; tarsi blackish ringed with white ; 

 abdomen fuscous and grey, some white hair at base of sides, the 

 crests black, the anal tuft reddish ochreous, the ventral surface 

 white irrorated with brown. Fore wing grey suffused with brown ; 

 subbasal line slight, black, waved, from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial 

 line double, the inner line red-brown with a reddish tinge before it, 

 the outer black, sinuous ; orbicular, reniform, and a spot below 

 outer edge of former rather small, pale grey defined by black with 

 some raised scales on their edges, their centres defined by fuscous ; 

 postmedial line double, the inner line black expanding into a small 

 spot below vein 2, the outer red-brown, bent outwards and obso- 

 lescent below costa, then sinuous and somewhat oblique, some grey 

 points beyond it on costa ; an oblique white shade from apex 

 defined below by fuscous ; subterminal line whitish, minutely 

 waved, somewhat excurved below costa and at middle ; a sinuous 

 black terminal line ; cilia fuscous at tips. Hind wing whitish with 

 the veins brown ; an oblique brown postmedial line ; the terminal 

 area suffused with brown ; cilia white with a brown line through 

 them ; the underside white, the veins, costal and terminal areas 

 irrorated with brown, a black discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial 

 line excurved below costa. 



Hah. Canaries, Teneriffe {W. Wliite), 1 S, Sta. Cruz {WaU 

 singliam), 1 6 type. JSxi). 34 millim. 



