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CARIGE; NAXIDTA. Bv L. B. Prout. 



40. Genus: Carige Walk 



Palpus rather long, rough-scaled. Antenna in both sexes bipectinate, the branches in the 2 shorter. 

 Hindtibia with all spurs. Wings shaped nearly as in Lohogonia, distal margin of forewing sometimes little 

 bent in middle. Forewing with areole single. Hindwing with costal vein connected with cell by a bar rather 

 near base; cell short, discocellulars very oblique, in the d' biangulate; 1 ^' radial stalked, 2""* in ? central, in 

 c? from nearer S'"^ radial ; submedian wanting in cf, a small lobe at base of inner margin. 



Another small genus, ranging from India, Perak and Flores to Japan. It scarcely differs from Loho- 

 gonia except in the pectinated ? antenna and some small differences in hindwing neuration — cf discocellulars 

 and 2"'^ radial and separation of 3'''' radial and P' median, which in typical Lohogonia are stalked. 



duplicaria. C. duplicaria Walk. (^ nigronotaria £rem., irrorata 5;?r.) (7f). Pale yellowish grey, the lines somewhat 



yellower, but chiefly indicated by double series of dark dashes which edge them proximally and distally. 



exlrcmaria. Underside similar. Japan, E. Siberia and China. — extremaria Leech from Chang Yang, Central China, is a 

 larger form, with the apex of the forewing more produced, the distal margin of the hindwing more deeply 

 excised and the markings larger and blacker. In Western China, however, somewhat intermediate forms occur, 

 of the size and colour of the type but shaped like extremaria. 



absorpta. C. absorpta Warr. differs in its somewhat smaller size and the absence of the characteristic dark 



markings, being merely pale ochreous with fine, curved, slightly crenulate antemedian and postmedian brown- 

 grey lines and brown cellspot; fringes glossy brown-grey. Japan. 



flaridaria. C flavidaria Leech (lid) differs from (^w^feco-ia in having the forewing in places clouded with yellowish, 



the veins broadly yellowish, the lines broader and deeper yellow, the paired black lines interrupted except 

 at the margins, the antemedian placed nearer to the black discal dot; subterminal whitish, thicker, lunulate- 

 dentate, interrupted. Omei-shan. 



41. Genus: Xaxidia Hmp. 



S)l. 



Face rounded, smooth-scaled. Palpus very short, smooth-scaled. Tongue developed. Antenna in both 

 sexes simple. Hindtibia with all spurs. Wings moderately broad, smooth-margined. Forewing with areole 

 single. Hindwing with costal connected with cell by a bar in the middle: 2""^ subcostal separate; discocellulars 

 weakly biangulate, 2°^ radial from slightly below the middle. 



Only three species are known, chiefly North Indian, easily recognized by their pattern, which consists 

 entirely of black dots on a white or whitish ground. 



punctata. ^' punctata Btlr. (7 f). Forewing dirty white with four rows of black dots, the general arrangement 



of which can be seen in our figure. Forewing beneath suffused; hindwing rather more whitish than above, 

 with cell-dot and angled postmedian line. N. India to W. China, scarcely penetrating into the essentially 

 Palearctic Region. 



irrora/a. N. irrorata Moore (11 e). Forewing less white than in punctata, being densely though finely powdered 



with grey; the black dots smaller, the postmedian series less deeply inbent at the 2"** median vein, the sub- 

 terminal series more irregular, or interrupted, appearing as proximal filling-in of a subterminal line of white 

 lunules. Hindwing rather less unicolorous above, showing traces of the angled postmedian ; sharply marked 

 beneath, the cell-dot large. N. India and W. China. The only Chinese example which I have seen (from Ta- 

 chien-lu) has the ground-colour itself somewhat darkened, pale grey instead of white, possibly indicating a 

 local race. 



maculata. ^' maculata Btlr. (1 1 e). Rather smaller on an average than punctata, the spots almost identically 



placed but larger. Especially distinctive is the large, round discal spot of the forewing, with no surrounding 

 dark shading. Discal dot of hindwing also somewhat enlarged. Japan. 



phryganea. Thysanodes (nom. praeocc.) phryganea Ehr., founded on a single d' in bad condition which was said 



to have been taken at Touraine, has not occurred again and is suspected of having been an exotic species 

 accidentally imported, but its determination has not yet been made out. Face smooth, palpus and tongue very 

 small, antenna slender, subcrenulate and ciliated, nearly as in Operophtera hrumata ; legs long and slender 

 with moderate spurs. Wings long, very narrow, coarsely scaled and with long fringes; forewing lanceolate, 



