272 HYPOSADA; SOPHTA; CORGATHA. By W. Warren. 



glaucotorna. 0. glaucotorna Hmps. (51 k). Forewing chocolate red, the costal area white slightly dusted with brown; 



inner line dark, faintly marked, sinuous, with slight whitish stripes on it in and below cell; a minute round 

 white spot at lower angle of cell; outer line whitish, with fuscous scales on inner side, excurved below costa and 

 at middle, incurved on the folds ; a diffused whitish band from vein 4 to inner margin ; subterminal whitish, angled 

 outwards below vein 7 and at middle, then incurved and somewhat dentate, with white suffusion beyond it ; a ter- 

 minal row of black dots ; fringe whitish, tinged with red towards tornus ; hindwing chocolate red ; a large white patch 

 on tornal area irrorated with red; a black cell streak; outer line whitish, oblique from costa to vein 4, then 

 inwardly oblique and sinuous, defining inner edge of pale patch; subterminal line represented by faint black 

 and white points from costa to vein 3, where it is angled outwards, then incurved, dentate, with a small ruf- 

 ous spot beyond it, and a rufous lunule before it on inner margin; the termen and fringe as in forewing. Kiu- 

 shiu, Japan and Gensan, Corea. 



mira. 0. mira Btlr. (51 k). Forewing dull chocolate brown, the costal area broadly greyish ochreous; inner 



and outer lines inwardly oblique, straight and parallel, white; submarginal line curved in upper half, dentate 



sinuous below; fringe mottled, fuscous and "whitish; hindwing with a slightly curved line just beyond middle ; 



pallicostala. the submarginal line and fringe as in forewing. This description applies to the Amurland form, pallicostata 



Stgr. ; typical mira are suffused with fuscous. Found in Amurland, Japan, Corea, and C. China. 



15. Genus: Hyposada Hmps. 



Tongue well-developed; frons smooth; palpi obliquely porrect, the second segment well-scaled, the 

 third minute ; antennae of $ ciliated ; thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled, without crests ; the tibiae with slight 

 hair-fringe ; the fore femora of $ with exsertible tuft of long hair above ; forewing elongate, the apex prominent, 

 termen oblique and even; the markings oblique; hindwing with veins 3, 4 short -stalked. Type H. postvittata 

 Walk. 



juncluralis. H. juncturalis Walk. (51k). Forewing pale rufous dusted with black ; at each angle of cell a white dot ringed 



with black ; outer line slightly marked, brownish, externally defined by yellowish white, excurved above middle, 

 then very oblique to inner margin before middle ; beyond it an oblique diffused pale band from apex ; subter- 

 minal line pale, ill-defined, with a row of black dots on its outer edge; terminal line finely black; hindwing och- 

 reous, suffused with rufous and dusted with black; cellspot black; an oblique pale outer band, with brown 

 suffusion before and beyond it, and with traces of a dark line through it ; subterminal line indistinct, with black 

 dots on outer edge. Described originally from Sierra Leone; occurring also in W. China and N. India. 



mesophaea. H. mesophaea Hmps. (51 k). Forewing pale reddish brown; inner line diffuse, very indistinct, obscurely 



waved; a slight dark point beyond it in cell; outer half of median area suffused with fuscous, limited by the 

 indistinct outer line with a series of minute dark streaks on the veins, oblique from costa to vein 7, excurved 

 to vein 4, then incurved ; submarginal line indistinct ; dots along termen black ; hindwing pale reddish brown, 

 slightly dusted with fuscous; cell-spot small; a curved median series of slight points. Japan. 



16. Genus: Sophia Walk. 



Tongue developed; frons conically prominent, with slight upward ridge to between antennae; palpi 

 obliquely porrect, the second segment fringed with scales at end, the third short; antennae of <$ ciliated; thorax 

 and abdomen smoothly scaled, without crests; forewing with apex bluntly produced, depressed; termen dentate 

 below middle, excised above. Type S. concavata Walk. 



nitens. S. nitens Btlr. (52 a). Forewing deep redbrown; the lines and shades blackish; inner and outer lines 



fine, the former curved, the latter excurved above middle, then oblique inwards ; median shade broad and oblique, 

 incurved and obsolete at costa, submarginal line lustrous grey, preceded by a dark shade ; a row of black and 

 white terminal dots ; hindwing red with the costal area grey and termen more orange ; the median shade of fore- 

 fasciola. wing becomes antemedian, followed by two black lines; fasciola Leech represents a form more tinged with 

 yellowish. Recorded only from Japan and Central China. 



17. Genus: Corgatha Walk. 



Tongue well developed ; frons smooth, with short tuft of hair above ; palpi obliquely porrect; the second 

 segment roughly scaled towards end, the third short; antennae of <$ ciliated; thoTax and abdomen smoothly 

 scaled, without crests ; the spurs of tibiae long ; forewing with costa straight, the apex prominent, the termen obli- 

 quely curved; neuration normal. Type C. zonalis Walk. 



dictaria. C. dictaria Walk. (= liberata Walk., metalligera Btlr., tana Swinh.) (51 n). Forewing grey powdered 



