178 NOCTUIT)^. 



straight to inner margin, some white points beyond it on costs ; 

 subterminal line indistinct, whitish, defined on inner side by slight 

 dentate dark marks, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia greyish 

 with a slight dark line through them. Hind wing pale suffused 

 with reddish brown, the terminal area darker ; an indistinct post- 

 medial line ; cilia yellowish white with a dark line through them 

 except towards tornus ; the underside brownish white, the costal 

 area tinged with rufous, the terminal area suffused with fuscous, a 

 dark discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. $ (type). Thorax with white scales mixed ; fore Aving 

 with some white on and before antemedial line on inner area, 

 a whitish patch beyond postmedial line from vein 3 to inner 

 margin. 



Ecib. Japan, Yokohama [Jonas, Pnjer), 3 J , 7 $ , type. E.vp. 

 40-42 millim. 



2939. Trachea commixta, (Plate CXII. fig. 16.) 



Xylophasia commixta, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 174. 

 Xylophasia tyclioona. Leech, P. Z. S. 1889, p. 488, pi. 51. f. 3. 



Head and thorax black-brown mixed with grey, palpi black 

 except at tips ; frons with lateral black bars ; tegulse rufous at 

 base and with black medial line ; pectus and legs pale brown, 

 the tarsi fuscous with pale rings ; abdomen fuscous brown, 

 ventrally' pale brown. Fore wing brown suffused with purplish 

 fuscous and with slight dark irroration, some rufous at base of costa, 

 on inner margin near base and on medial area from costa to sub- 

 median fold ; a sinuous black streak below base of cell ; subbasal 

 line represented by double black striae from costa ; antemedial line 

 double filled in with rufous, angled inwards in cell, then excurved 

 and waved ; claviform small, defined by black and with black 

 streak from it to postmedial line ; orbicular and reniform with 

 rufous centres and pale annuli, the former more or less oblique or 

 elongate elliptical and defined by black on outer side, the latter on 

 inner side-; traces of a waved medial line oblique from costa to 

 below cell ; postmedial line defined by rufous on outer side, bent 

 outwards below costa, then minutely dentate, excurved to vein 4, 

 then strongly incurved, some pale points beyond it on costa ; sub- 

 terminal line rufous, defined on inner side above and below vein 5 

 by black streaks extending to postmedial line, then by minute 

 dentate black marks, angled outwards at vein 7 and minutely 

 dentate at veins 4, 3 ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; 

 cilia with a fine pale line at base. Hind wing greyish tinged with 

 brown or fuscous, the terminal area broadly fuscous ; cilia whitish 

 with a dark line through them ; the underside white slightly tinged 

 with brown, a black discoidal spot, and curved postmedial line with 

 broad fuscous band beyond it. 



Hah. Japan, Yokohama {Jonas, Maries, Pryer), 3 c? , 4 5 , type 

 and type tyclioorta. Exp. 32-44 millim. 



