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outlined with black, the former elliptical, the latter subquadrate, angled inwards on median nervure; sub- 

 terminal line pale, preceded by some brown shading; hindwing brownish ochreous, the veins and termen 

 brown with an ochreous spot towards anal angle. Japan. 



H. incommoda Stgr. (= lacrimosa Graes.) (20 f). Forewing purplish grey, with some darker dusting incommoda. 

 and suffusion; a black spot below base of cell; claviform brown, pointed at end; orbicular and reniform 

 conversely oblique, grey with dark centres and brown outlines; submarginal line waved, whitish, the area 

 beyond it fuscous; hindwing ochreous white, becoming brown towards termen. Amurland. 



28. Genus: Xiracola Moore. 



Tongue' developed; frons smooth: antennae of d* ciliated; thorax and abdomen crested; outer 

 margin of forewing crenulate; hindwing with cell shortened; vein 2 from near angle, 3 and 4 stalked, 6 

 and 7 shortly stalked. 



Type T. plagiata Walk. 



T. plagiata Walk. (= plagifera Walk., spectabilis Walk., grandirena H.-Sch.) (21 f). Forewing greyish plagiata. 

 ochreous or fuscous, thickly freckled with darker, sometimes much suffused with brown or fuscous, in other 

 cases rufous brown throughout and then generally with the speckling slight or absent ; submarginal line 

 sinuous, generally pale; the marginal area beyond it, except at apex, and a triangular blotch at middle of 

 costa enclosing the reniform stigma, darker; in the cf this triangular blotch is much more conspicuous by 

 reason of the reniform being black; hindwing fuscous, the fringe pale. — Larva dull purple brown, dusted 

 with grey; a dorsal row of grey triangular blotches; sublateral stripes pale; hend small; 11 th segment dor- 

 sally humped: a few fine hairs along dorsum; on Emilia. A widely distributed tropical insect, recorded 

 from Moupin, W. China. 



29. Genus: Hyssia Guen. 



Tongue developed; frons smooth; antennae of cf pubescent, head and thorax roughly scaled. 



Type H. cavernosa Ev. 



H. cavernosa Ev. (= ornata H.-Sch.) (21 f). Forewing violet grey, suffused with fuscous; inner cavernosa. 

 margin below vein 1 prominently yellowish white, a sharp-pointed black streak from base below vein 1 ; 

 lines vertical; stigmata large and conspicuous, deep olive brown; claviform bullet-shaped; orbicular round, 

 black-edged, open at top; reniform with dark centre; outer line minutely dentate, pale-edged, with 2 longer 

 grey teeth along veins 3, 4 touching subterminal line, which is white, preceded by double dark blotches 

 on the folds and at costa, and an oblong grey blotch between veins 6 and 7; hindwing fuscous, with cellspot 

 and terminal area darker. A South European species found in Italy, Switzerland, Hungary, Austria and 

 S. E. Russia: extending from the Altai Mts. in W. Siberia to Ussuri in E. Siberia, and occurring in W. 

 and E. Turkestan and Mongolia. 



H. violascens Hamps. (20 g). Forewing violet grev, darker, suffused with reddish brown, as far as violascens. 

 outer line; inner and outer lines approximated on inner margin; upper stigmata lai'ge, greyish; orbicular 

 oblique, elliptical; reniform with lower lobe dark; veins in outer area somewhat speckled; hindwing pale 

 grey, more brownish terminalty. Described from a single a* from Foochau, N. China. 



H. musculina Stgr. (20 g).- Forewing pale ochreous, dusted with fuscous and grey; wholly suffused musculina. 

 with fuscous beyond outer line and along a band before inner line; upper stigmata ill-defined, pale ochreous; 

 claviform absent; submarginal line obscured; hindwing with basal area pale, becoming brownish grey in 

 terminal half; the fringe ochreous. The ¥ is said to have the ochreous scales replaced by bluish white, 

 and the darker tints reversed; the median area being dark and the basal and marginal lighter; the stigmata . 

 with dark centres and white rings. Described by Staudinger originally from Malatia, W. Kurdistan; the 

 pair described by Ha.mpson from Syria. The ? may well belong to a distinct species. 



30. Genus: JEriopygodes Hamps. 



Tongue developed ; frons smooth : abdomen without crests ; antennae lamellate ; palpi with 2 nd - segment 

 long-haired, 3 rd - short. Imago of small size; the ¥ smaller than the cf, with narrower forewings. 



Type E. imbecilla F. 



Section I : Antennae of cf flattened, tuberculate-fasciculate. 



E. imbecilla F. (= aliena cf Hbn., alpina ? Hbn., disparilis 0., nexa Dup.) (21 g). Forewing rufous imbecilla. 

 ochreous, sometimes grey-tinged, in the cf', rufous brown in the ?; veins finely brownish; inner and outer 



