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Sect. II. Palpi with the third segment short. 



T. oberthuri Stgr. (= pulcherrima Oberlh. nee Moore). (44 h). Much resembling pulcherrima, but oberthuri. 

 wholly olive green shaded with darker green; the outer line filled in with white towards inner margin; the 

 reniform filled with rufous; in the hindwing the yellow is more ample, and a ray of yellow runs up below 

 vein 1 nearly to base; ab.albimaculaafc.no?;. (= ab. 1. Hmps.) (44 h) has the reniform chalk white, some- atbimacula. 

 times also a white point in the orbicular stigma, and some white beyond lower end of outer line. Occurs 

 in Amurland, Corea and W. China. 



T. subpulchra Alph. (42 1). Forewing reddish brown, greyer towards base; inner and outer lines subpulchra. 

 double, filled in with grey; submarginal indistinct; orbicular stigma round, black-edged; reniform white, 

 outlined in black, somewhat constricted at middle; hindwing orange; the base black brown, emitting 

 streaks along the veins to beyond lower angle of cell and along vein 1 ; a broad terminal band, containing 

 orange lunules on termen, its inner edge slightly angled inwards on submedian fold. Corea. 



T. lu cilia Bilr. (44 i). Forewing greyish olive, with dark blackish or redbrown suffusion along inner lucilla. 

 margin and lower half of termen; the inner and outer lines double, black, with dull green between them; 

 a patch of white scales before inner line on submedian fold; the submarginal green, wavy, broken into 

 spots; claviform stigma hardly defined; orbicular of the ground colour, with black outline ; reniform chalk 

 white: hindwing black, with a central broad curved yellow band from costa to vein 2, its inner edge 

 running in below the cell; a shallow yellow patch on termen across submedian interval; fringe yellow with 

 black spots between veins 4 and 2; — in ab. modesta ab. nov. (44 i) the reniform is, like the orbicular, of modesta. 

 the ground colour, with whitish grey spots on its outer edge ; • — in ab. literata ab. nov. (44 i), the whole basal Ulerata. 

 half of wing is suffused with velvety blackish, the outer half remaining olive green and grey, dusted with 

 bluish white scales; the reniform stigma is dark grey with the straight inner edge and 4 outer spots, of 

 which the middle one is large and round, snow white. — Japan. A very variable species, of which 

 I believe the next species, cinerescens Btlr. will prove merely a form. 



T. cinerescens Btlr. (44 i). Forewing brownish- or reddish-grey, with dark dusting; inner and outer cinerescens. 

 lines black, double at costa, the outer strongly dentate; submarginal line faint, preceded by fuscous 

 shading; claviform and orbicular outlined in dark; the reniform fuscous internally with the centre and 

 outer edge white and extending to costa; hindwing reddish fuscous, with a broad curved dull yellow band 

 from costa to vein 2 beyond the cell, its inner edge angled inwards below the cell. In the $ the outer 

 half of wing is more or less suffused with whitish grey. — Japan. 



T. postflava Leech (44 i). Forewing ochreous, almost entirely suffused with brown and dusted with postflava. 

 black; the median area rather darker; lines double, black, filled in with grey, the inner obscure, with a 

 dark patch before it on inner margin; claviform stigma large, dark with black outline; orbicular and 

 reniform pale, black-edged; the former with dark centre, the latter with its lower half dark; the cell 

 blackish; submarginal line pale, wavy, with a dark preceding shade; hindwing fuscous brown with a broad 

 curved pale yellow band from costa beyond middle to vein 3; fringe yellow. Japan and Corea. 



47. Genus: Thalpophila Hbn. 



Differs from Polyphaenis in the thorax being clothed with hair as well as scales; in the dorsum 

 being smooth, without crests; the antennae of <§ serrate and fasciculate. Larva with longitudinal darker 

 lines, hybernating and feeding up in spring; on various grasses. — Type Thalpophila matura Hufn. 



T. matura Hufn. (= cytherea F., connexa Hbn.) (44 i). Forewing grey-brown with darker dusting matura. 

 and suffusion; veins towards termen pale grey; a slight rufous tinge longitudinally along both folds, more 

 conspicuous at the outer edge of reniform stigma; inner and outer lines black, conversely pale-edged; the 

 submarginal obscurely pale, indented on each fold, and preceded by a dark shade; the three stigmata 

 black-edged, their centres more or less tinged with rufous, the orbicular and reniform with an obscure pale 

 ring; hindwing straw yellow with a broad fuscous terminal border, broadening at apex; in the form 

 texta Esp. (44 k) the forewing is darker and duller, with the paler markings all obscured. Generally texta. 

 distributed in Europe; also in Armenia and Asia Minor. — Larva grey brown; dorsal line dark with pale 

 centre; on each side a series of pale and dark longitudinal lines, the subdorsal and lateral edged with 

 darker; feeding on grasses. 



T. vitalba Frr. (= vittalba Tr.) (44 k). Forewing pale olive fuscous; the veins conspicuously white; vitalba. 

 the costa generally paler; inner line broadly white, obsolete above middle, angled outwards, broadly above 

 and acutely below, vein 1, both angles filled in with black; outer line white, inwardly edged with black; 

 submarginal line pale, interrupted, preceded and followed by series of black dashes in the intervals; clavi- 

 form stigma black edged, traversed by the whitish submedian fold, and nearly reaching outer line; orbi- 



