EUSCOXIA. — LIXHOPHANE. 



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Larva. Brownish ochreous with faint brown mottling ; warts 

 small, whitish edged with brown ; dorsal line sliglit, finely edged 

 on each side with brown ; subdorsal line almost obsolete ; stigmatal 

 line yelloAvish edged above by brown developed into slight medial 

 patches on the somites; stigmata ringed with whitish ; 11th somite 

 with dorsal brown bar ; head with the hemispheres chocolate- 

 brown. Food-plant, Berberis. 6. 



2392. Euscotia saga. 



Lithaj>ha7ie'saga,Butl. A. M. iS\ H. (5) i. p. 198 (18781 ; id. 111. Het. B. M. 



iii. p. 18, pi. 95. f. 9 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 183. 

 Wiizogramma aurilegula, Obertb. Et. Ent. v. p. 71, pi. iii. f. 16 (1880). 

 Xylnphasia incognita, Butl. Cist. Ent. iii. p. 132 (1885). 



Head and thorax grey mixed with brown ; tegulee with black 

 medial line and slight lines near base and before the tips, which are 

 brown ; patagia with black line near upper edge, which is brown ; 

 tibiae with black streaks ; abdomen grey dorsally suffused with 

 brown. Eore wing grey irrorated and suffused with brown ; the 

 veins with slight dark streaks ; a dark streak below base of cell ; 

 subbasal line represented by double oblique striae from costa ; ante- 

 medial line indistinct, double, angled outwards in the interspaces 

 and inwards on the veins, very strongly angled outwards in sub- 

 median fold and above inner margin ; a .*light dark streak above 

 middle of inner margin ; claviform absent ; orbicular and reniform 

 indistinct and incompletely defined by brown, the former elongate, 

 its lower part produced as a streak and confluent with the latter ; 

 postmedial line indistinctly double, dentate, bent outwards below 

 costa and oblique below vein 4, in submedian fold angled inwards 

 to the antemedial line and forming a somewhat bidentate whitish 

 mark, diffused oblique brown fasciae from it to termen below apex 

 and below veins 4 and 8 ; a terminal series of dark points. Hind 

 wing whitish tinged with brown, the veins and terminal area 

 siiifused with brown, very stronglj" in female. 



Hah. E. Siberia, Ussuri ; Japaij, Yezo (Pryer), 1 c? type in- 

 cognita, 'Yokohama {Jonas, Pryei% Jlanley), 1 c? , 5 $ type ; Coeea. 

 EA:2y. 52-58 millim. 



Genus LITPIOPHANE. 



Type. 

 Lifhophane, Hilbii. Verz. p. 242 (1S27) socia. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi with tbe 2nd joiut oblique and fringed 

 with hair, the 3rd moderate, porrect ; frons rounded ; eyes large, rounded ; 

 antennae of male ciliated ; head and thorax clothed with hair and scales, 

 the frons and vertex of head with tufts of hair, the tegulaj produced to a 

 slight dorsal ridge, the pro thorax with large divided crest, the metathorax 

 with spreading crest ; abdomen triangular, with dorsal series of large crests. 

 Fore wing i-ather narrow, the apex somewhat produced, the termen obliquely 

 rounded and 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. 



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