OULPIOTA. By L. B. Protjt. 21 



a dark discal dot and a wavy green postmedian line. Hondo, Kiushiu, Korea and Central China, apparently 

 throughout the summer. 



C. nigromacularia Leech (= delicatior Warr.) (3 c). Cell-spots rather large, postmedian white line of nigrdma-- 

 forewing rather thick, well removed from distal margin, followed by a white cloud running to the margin between «"'"'■»''■ 

 the second and third radials, a reddish cloud on inner margin and. a somewhat interrupted white submarginal 

 line. Hindwing with a large reddish or dark purple-brown patch, at apex, continued more narrowly along distal 

 margin to middle of wing. Underside nearly white, except costal half of forewing; cell-spots large, apical markings 

 of hindwing fuscous, divided into three or four small blotches, separated by the veins. West China, S. E. Siberia 

 and Japan, occurring continuously from June to October. Varies a little in the exact form and extent of the 

 blotches. 



C. ornataria Leech (2 c). Green strigulated with white. Lines placed nearly as in delineata, but slender, ornaiariu. 

 white, the postmedian scarcely traceable beyond the bend at second median vein, being followed by a red, 

 paler-centred pyramidal marking on inner margin. Hindwing with the fringes largely purple-red and small 

 paler-centred blotches of this colour at apex and anal angle. Hindwing beneath whitish, marked with green, 

 both wings with thick purple-red streak from inner margin close to anal angle. Only known from Pu-tsu-fong, 

 Western China. 



C. diluta Warr. ( = ? ingrata Wileni. ) (3 b). A rather obscure species, of which I have seen no certain example dUuta. 

 excepting Wareen's somewhat faded type, although. I believe an Ussuri ^ in coll. Ptjngeler may safely be 

 referred to it, probably also Wileman's (damaged) type of ingrata. The green ground colour is not noticeably 

 strigulated with white, the white lines are present, though very indistinct, the postmedian quite near the distal 

 margin, cell-spot small, no terminal red line. Under surface whitish green, with only the cell-spots present. 

 Kiushiu, ? Nikko, ? Ussuri. We here figure Herr PtJNGELBRS specimen. 



C. quadrinotata Bflr. (5 a) in common with a few Indo-Australian species differs from the ^preceding <iiuidrinota/a. 

 group in neuration, the fifth subcostal vein arising before the second. These species constitute, approximately, 

 the genus Proholosceles of Warren, but as procumbaria varies in the relative position of these two veins, the 

 genus is untenable, quadrinotata is smaller and of a rather more dehcate build than the pustulata.-grouj), to 

 which otherwise it bears a good deal of resemblance; colour somewhat less bright, the white lines indistinct, 

 placed somewhat as in neriaria, the postmedian waved; blotches fuscous, not red-brown, enclosing no white 

 scales, consisting of one at anal angle of forewing, one at apex of hindwing and a small dorsal one on abdomen. 

 Dharmala and Kashmir. The species from Talaut, recorded by Meyrick as quadrinotata, is distinct though 

 allied. 



19. Genus : Culpiiiia Prout. 



Face smooth. Palpus shortish or moderate. Antenna in cJ bipectinate, in $ subserrate. Hindtibia 

 in ^ with small hair-pencil and only two spurs, in $ 'vvdth four spurs, the proximal pair often weak, sometimes 

 almost vestigial. Abdomen not crested. Frenulum in ^ rather weak, in $ wanting *). Forewing with distal 

 margin straight or even slightly incurved anteriorly, strongly oblique posteriorly, third discocellular deeply 

 incurved, becoming very obhque, first subcostal free or anastomosing with costal, first median connate or short- 

 stalked. Hindwing with distal margin toothed at first radial, and more strongly at third, excised between, cell 

 short, costal anastomosing with subcostal at a point near base, second subcostal short-stalked, first median 

 connate, or oftener stalked. Differs in several characters from Thalera, with which, on account of its super- 

 ficial appearance, it has hitherto been confused. Only one species is known. 



C. diffusa Walk. (= crenulata Btlr. = rufolimbaria Hed.) (2 c). Green with an indistinct fine waved diffusa. 

 whitish postmedian line, forewing also with faint traces of an antemedian. A red line on distal margin, the 

 fringes white, chequered with red. Underside similar. The species bears much superficial resemblance to a mi- 

 niature Thalera fimhrialis. Its range extends from Japan to western China. There are evidently two broods, 

 May to June and August to September. 



*) From here onward to the end of this subfamily, according to the classification which I have adopted, the 

 ? frenuluna is wanting, and that of the (J more or less short and weak, arising from before a marked basal expansion 

 of the hindwing. The structure will therefore not be again mentioned, except under the first genus (Euchloris) in which 

 the (S also ha,s entirely lost the frenulum. 



