330 ZETHENIA; ZANCLIDIA; ENDROPIODES; GONODONTIS. By L. B. Protjt. 



52. Genus: Zetheuia Motsch. 



Face with projecting cone of scales. Palpus moderate, rough-scaled. Antenna in ^ with fascicles of 

 cilia. Breast and femors densely hairy. Forewing in ^ with fovea; 1st and 2nd subcostals staUced, the 1st anasto- 

 mosing or comiected with costal, its base sometimes obsolete so that it appears to arise from the costal. Con- 

 tains only a few E. Asiatic species, aU very closely related. 



alhonotaria. Z. albonotaria Br em. (16 e as albinotaria) is characterized by the black, generally white-pupiUed 



spot distally to the postmedian line. It is generally larger than the other species, distal margui of forewing 

 more sharply elbowed at the 3rd radial, postmedian line broken into vein-dots, discal dot of hindwing minute 

 or wanting. Variable in ground-colour, strongly or scarcely rufous. Distributed in E. Asia, abundant in Japan. 



rufescen- Z. rufescentaria Motsch. (= consociaria Chr.) (16 d, e). Also variable, but always without the sub- 



taria. marginal spot. Generally more variegated, the space between the median shade and postmedian hne some- 

 times developed into a dark band; postmedian line better developed, sinuous, the vein-dots standing out on 

 it as minute teeth; hindwing with discal dot sharply expressed. — ab. grisearia Leech, commonest hi the 

 grvsearia. ^^ is greyer, the median area commonly darkened. S. E. Siberia and Japan, m the latter country even more 

 abundant than alhonotaria. 



inaccepta. Z. inaccepta Prout (16 e) may be known at once by the smoother distal margins and the almost 



uniformly dark-dusted wings. Antemedian and median lines almost or entirely wanting, postmedian weakly 

 expressed by vein-dots; distaUy to this the forewing is dark-bordered, leaving free only a Email spot at the 

 apex. ^ in general darker clouded than ^. China: Shanghai, Ningpo, Chekiang and Chungkung. 



contiguaria. ' Z. contiguaria Leech (= obscura Warr.) (16 e) is intermediate in shape between the two preceding, 



but is on an average smaller. Extremely variable, generally darker than the other species, very commonly 

 with white spots on each side of the 2nd median vein, accompanying the postmedian hne of dots distally. Not 

 rarely a black spot is developed as in alhonotaria (16 e), but this is not white-pupilled. Discal dot of hindwing 

 well developed. Distributed in Central and W. China and Formosa. 



53. Genus: Zaiicliclia j/ew. wow. 



Face'flat. Palpus short. Antenna in ^ simple. Femora not hairy. Forewing with fovea; 1st and 2nd 

 subcostals long-stalked, free. Perhaps related to Zethenia but distinct in several characters and in the colora- 

 tion and markings. I have adopted a MS. generic name of Wareens. 



testacea. Z. testacea Btlr. (16 e). A brightly coloured species easily recognized by its shape, the white discal 



spot,'^pale yellow patch costally, etc. The $ is larger, rather paler, hindwing without the dark apical patch; 

 ovipositor long. Japan. 



54. Genus: £ii(lro|>iocleis Wan: 



Scarcely differentiable in structure from Anagoga, to which it should perhaps sink. But as the distal 

 ■mtagins are more irregularly shaped and its retention here enables us to place the species in the same 

 position as Statjdingees Catalogue, I prefer not to sink it until it has been more closely stiidied or the earlier 

 stages made known. 



Geographical distribution: Amurland to Japan. 



indictinaria. . indictinaria Brem. (= versicoloraria Chr., snelleni Hedem.) (16 e). Very pale reddish grey with 



darker red-brown dusting and cloudings, very variable in extent; a black discal dot on each wing; ante- 

 median line of forewing straight, postmedian strongly angled, followed by black dots on each side of 1st median 

 alijeda. vein. Common in the Amur and Ussuri district and Japan. — abjecta Btlr. (16 e) is a deeper, more uni- 

 formly reddish form and lacks the black dots distally to the postmedian. Japan: Gifu. 



55. Genus : Ooiiodoiitis Hhn. 



Pace densely rough-scaled. Palpus moderate, rough-scaled below. Tongue present. Antenna in ^ 

 usually bipectinate. Pectus and femora densely hairy. Forewing rather long, distal margin angled in the middle 

 often crenulate throughout; 1st subcostal vein not anastomosing with costal; 2nd arising from ceU, com- 

 monly free throughout. Hindwing with distal margin often crenulate. Larva twig-like, with additional rudi- 

 mentary claspers on the 4th and 5th abdominal segments. A very natural genus, inhabiting the Pale- 

 arctic Region and N. India to Formosa. Possibly the Indian to Japanese and Formosan representatives could 

 form a separate section {Niphonissa Btlr.) with less long hair-scales beneath the palpus and often smoother 

 wing-margins. 



