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and legs on outer side tinged with fuscous. Fore wing clothed with 

 powdery white scales ; the basal third of costal area orange-yellow, 

 with the costal edge black : the terminal area broadly suffused with 

 orange-yellow. Hind wing pale orange-yellow. Underside of fore 

 wing suffused with black, except the costal and terminal areas. 



Fore wing with veins 6, 7 from areole ; 9 from end of areole or 

 from 10 ; 11 anastomosing with 12. 



Bob. W. China, Ta-chien-lu, type f <S in Coll. Leech. Exp. 

 48 millim. 



365. Ilema nigripoda. (Plate XXIII. fig. 15.) 



Lithosia nigripoda, Brem., Motsch. Et. Ent. i. p. 63 (1852); Eirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 329. 

 Lithosia insoUta, Wlk.ii. 497, S (1854) ; Kirby, Oat. Het. p. 331. 

 Lithosia prcBcipua, Wlk. xxxi. 229, $ (1864) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 329. 



(S . Head and tegulse pale yellow ; third joint of palpi and 

 antennae black ; legs mostly fuscous ; abdomen pale yellow. Fore 

 wing dull white, rather roughly scaled ; the basal half of costal 

 edge blackish ; termen yellowish. Hind wing pale yellow. Under- 

 side of fore wing with the disk tinged with fuscous. 



Fore wing with vein 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the 

 areole ; 6 from areole or angle of cell ; 11 anastomosing with 12. 



5 . Colour orange-yellow. 



ITab. jAPA3sr ; China, Shanghai (Fortune), 3 c? , 3 $ , types inso- 

 Uta and ^rcecijjMffl. Exjj., c? 50, j 54 millim. 



*366. Ilema moorei. (Plate XXIII. fig. 21.) 



Katha moorei, Leech, Ent. xxiii. p. 81 (1890) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 329. 



c? . Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-white with a fuscous tinge ; 

 palpi blackish. Fore wing clothed with powdery grey-white scales ; 

 the basal third of costal area and the terminal area broadly tinged 

 with fuscous. Hind wing brownish white. 



2 . Fore wing uniformly fuscous, overlaid with grey-white 

 scales. 



Fore wing of male with veins 6, 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 11 anastomosing 

 with 12 ; female with vein 6 from cell ; a minute areole on left- 

 hand side of one specimen. 



Hab. China, Chang-yang, type f in Coll. Leech, Ningpo, Moupin, 

 Omei-shan, Chia-ting-fu. Exp., S 42, $ 46 millim. 



367. Ilema nigripars. 



Lithosia nigripars, Wlk. vii. 1779 (1856) ; Swinh. Cat. Het. Mus. Oxon. 



p. 122 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 331. 

 Capissa pallens, Moore, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 19, pi. 2. f. 3 ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind 



ii. p. 85 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 331. 



cJ . Head and thorax orange-yellow ; third joint of palpi, 

 antennse, and outer side of legs iuscous ; abdomen pale yellowish. 

 Fore wing yellowish white ; costal edge black on basal half, yellow 



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