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2495. Eumiclitis melauodonta, n. sp. (Plate CIY. fig. 6.) 



liadcna iwrplhiirea. Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. 190Q, p. 58 (nee Esp.). 



Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with black and a few 

 grey scales ; sides of palpi and frons blackish : tegulaj with black 

 medial line ; tarsi ringed with whitish ; abdomen dark reddish 

 brown, greyish at base. Fore wing pale pinkish mixed with whitish 

 mostly suffused with purplish fuscous, the veins streaked with 

 fuscous ; a strong sinuous black streak below base of cell, with 

 whitish suffusion above it and an oblique black streak above inner 

 margin before the antemedial line ; sutabasal line represented by 

 slight double oblique strise from costa ; antemedial line double filled 

 in with greyish, oblique, angled inwards on the veins and out- 

 wards below costa and in cell, excurved below cell and above inner 

 margin ; claviform large, indistinctly defined by black and with 

 diffused black fascia below it from antemedial to postmedial line ; 

 orbicular and reniform large with brown centres and slight whitish 

 annuli defined by black, the former very oblique elliptical and 

 elongate, the latter with its centre defined by brown ; au indistinct 

 medial line oblique from costa to median uervure, then dentate ; 

 postmedial line double, the outer line indistinct, bent outwards 

 below costa, then dentate, excurved to vein 4, then oblique, some 

 pale points beyond it on costa and a patch in submedian interspace ; 

 subterminal line represented by a series of dentate whitish marks 

 defined on inner side by wedge-shaped black marks above veins 

 7, 4, 3, 2, extending almost to postmedial line, angled outwards at 

 veins 7, 4, 3, and with black streaks in the interspaces from it to 

 the terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia fuscous brown, 

 with series of pale points at base and slight waved black line 

 through them. Hind wing deep fuscous brown, the terminal area 

 rather dark ; cilia with fine pale line at base expanding into a 

 series of points at the veins ; the underside pale tinged with rufous 

 and irrorated with brown, a black discoidal spot, a curved post- 

 modial line with the area beyond it dark brown. 



Hah. Japa:^, Oiwake {Letch)., 1 S type, Yokohama {Fryer), 2 S , 

 3 $ . Exp. 46-54 millim. 



2496. Eumiclitis satiira. . 



Noctua, satura, Scbiff. Wien. Verz. p. 83 (1776) ; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., 

 jSToct. f. 75 ; Dup. LeiD. Fr. vi. p. 319, pi. 92. f. 5, aud Suppl. iii. p. 236, 

 pi. 22. f. 2 ; Err. Neue Beitr. iii. pi. 244. 



Hoctua 2wr])hyrea, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 145. f. 5 (1789); Stand. Cat. Lep. 

 pal. p. 171. 



Head and thorax purplish fuscous mixed with rufous ; tegulje 

 with black line near tips ; patagia with black line near upper edge, 

 the dorsal crests rufous ; tarsi with slight ochreous rings ; abdomen 

 dark brown, greyish at base, the anal tuft and ventral surface 

 rufous. Fore wing purplish fuscous suffased in parts with pinkish 

 rufous, especially on basal inner area and postmedial area ; a sinuous 

 black streak below base of cell and a diffused streak above inner 



