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brown, whitish at base. Fore wing purplish grey irrorated with 

 white and black ; the basal area with white patches, tinged with 

 olive-green at base of costa, in submedian interspace to antemedial 

 line and on inner margin before antemedial line ; subbasal line 

 represented by double black striae from costa on the white patch ; 

 antemedial line double, black filled in with white, angled outwards 

 below costa, then oblique to submedian fold, then angled inwards 

 on vein 1 and to inner margin ; claviform defined by black except 

 , above, with some olive and white suffusion on it and olive and 

 white patch beyond its extremity ; an olive-tinged white patch on 

 middle of inner margin ; orbicular and reniform white tinged with 

 olive and defined by black, both rather quadrate and with some 

 olive and white between them in cell; the medial area with some 

 whitish patches on costa ; a waved black medial line, oblique from 

 costa to below cell with slight whitish mark beyond it in submedian 

 fold ; postmedial line double filled in with grey, strongly bent out- 

 wards below costa, then dentate, incurved below vein 4, some 

 white points beyond it on costa, and a series of whitish marks 

 tinged with olive from beyond it to termen ; the subterminal line 

 represented by dentate black marks on these pale patches below 

 costa and between veins 6 and 2 ; a terminal series of small black 

 lunules ; cilia purplish grey mixed with olive and with waved 

 black line through them. Hind wing uniform fuscous brown ; cilia 

 with whitish line at base and white tips ; the underside whitish 

 very thickly irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal lunule, diffused 

 sinuous postmedial line, and diffused subterminal band. 

 Hah. W. China, Ta-chien-lu, 1 $ type. Exp. 34 millim. 



Genus AGRIOPIS. 



Type. 



Agriopis, Boisd. Ind. Metb. p. 123 (1840) .. ap-ilina. 



Biphthera, Hiibn. Tent, ined aprilina. 



■ Proboscis fully developed ; palpi oblique, fringed with hair in front ; frons 

 smooth; eyes large, rounded; antennae of male ciliated; head and thorax 

 clothed with hair and scales mixed, the pro- and metathorax with spreading 

 crests; fore femora greatly dilated ; abdomen with dorsal crest on basal seo-- 

 ments, and lateral fringes of hair. Fore wing with the termen crenulate • 

 veins 3 and 6 from neai- angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anasto- 

 mosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 

 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from 

 upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing with the ground-colour pale green aprilina. 



B. Fore wing with the ground-colour grey-brown. 



a. Fore wing with pale patch above the streak in base of 



submedian fold. 

 d^. Fore wing without dark streak in submedian fold from 



subterminal line to termen cBruqinea. 



W-. Fore wing with dark streak in submedian fold from 



subterminal line to termen converqens, 



b. Fore wing without pale patch above the streak in base of 



submedian fold pnjeri. 



