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IAMBIA; BEYOLEUCA; AEAEA; CHYTOXIX. By W. Warren. 



cular and reniform flattened, olive fuscous, with pale rings, often confluent; hindwing white, with a 



amalhusiti. yellowish flush in the $; a faint grey marginal border; — the form amathusia Bmb. (44 k), from Spain, 



is much darker, all the white markings attenuated, the hindwing with a broad well-defined dark fuscous 

 border. S. W. France, Sicily, Algeria, and Spain. 



48. Genus: Iambia Walk. 



Tongue present; frons smooth; palpi upturned, short; antennae of $ ciliated; the metathorax and 

 base of dorsum with slight crests; forewing with termen faintly excised below vein 3. Type Iambia 

 inferalis Walk, from S. Africa. 



transversa. I. transversa Moore (48 a). Forewing greyish brown with white and black dusting; inner and 



outer lines double, black, filled up with paler; the inner waved, with a black spot at costa and a mark 

 before it on inner margin; the outer whitish towards costa, preceded by black spots; subterminal in- 

 distinct, pale, preceded by a row of black dentate marks, and on each side of vein 5 bj a large lunule; 

 orbicular and reniform with slight pale annuli; the orbicular round, the reniform with a straight inner 

 edge; the cell dark; hindwing brown. This widely spread species, occurring in S. Africa, India, and 

 Borneo, has been recorded also from Yokohama, Japan, and Ichang, Central China. 



49. Genus: Bryoleuca Hmps. 



Tongue aborted, minute; palpi upturned, the second segment fringed with hair, the third smooth, 

 slender; antennae of <$ serrate-fasciculate; thorax clothed with scales, both it and abdomen without crests; 

 hindwing with veins 3, 4 and 6, 7 shortly stalked. Type Bryoleuca trilinea Beth.-Baker. 



trilinea. B. trilinea Beth.-Baker (48 b). Forewing cream white, flushed with pale brown except in basal 



area and beyond cell; lines indistinct, represented by slight broken striae; the two stigmata equally faint, 

 with fine outlines, the reniform lunular; terminal line dark; hindwing white, faintly brown- tinged along 

 termen. Egypt. 



50. Genus: Araea Hmps. 



Tongue fully developed: palpi slender, upcurved, slightly rough-haired in front, the terminal 

 segment short; frons smooth; antennae of q minutely ciliated; head and thorax loosely and roughly 

 scaled; the thorax slightly crested; $ with long exserted ovipositor; forewing narrow, the termen curved, 

 not crenulate; veins 6, 7 of hindwing stalked. Type A. attenuata Hmps. 



iiltrnuala. A. attenuata Hmps. (48 b). Forewing brownish grey with some black irroration; the lines black, 



thick, and well marked, conversely edged with whitish; the inner vertical, slightly waved; the outer 

 excurved above, oblique inwards and lunulate-dentate below middle; subterminal whitish, diffuse, indented 

 on each fold, with some black dashes beyond it at middle; a black streak from base below cell; claviform 

 stigma narrow, acuminate; the upper stigmata well marked, brownish grey outlined with black; hindwing 

 whitish, suffused with grey brown. Kashmir, Scinde and Goorais Yallies. 



51. Genus: Chytonix Grote. 



Tongue developed; frons smooth; palpi upturned, the second segment reaching to vertex of head, 

 fringed with hair in front, the third short; antennae of <$ ciliated; thorax rough scaled; the crest on meta- 

 thorax very large; tibiae long-haired, the spurs long; abdomen with dorsal crests, those on segments 

 3 and 4 large. Type C. palliairicula Guen., from X. America. 



Sect. II. Termen of forewing without excision below apex. 



fodinae. C. fodinae Oierth. (= subfasciata Btlr.) (44 k). Forewing brownish grey, tinged here and there 



with rufous, the inner margin greyer; inner half of median area suffused with black and with a deep 

 black streak above vein 1; inner and outer lines double, blackish, filled in with white; the inner angled 

 outwards on median vein; the outer outcurved in upper half ana represented by doubled dark dashes on 

 veins, incurved below, the inner arm only visible as a curved black line; subterminal line whitish, ill- 

 defined; orbicular and reniform stigmata grey, laterally defined by black, the orbicular oblong and oblique, 

 the reniform constricted at middle; median shade indicated by a black costal striga; hindwing brownish 

 grey. From Fssuri and Askold Island, E. Siberia; Butlers subfasciata from Japan. 



