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with black; lines and veins pale bone colour; inner and outer lines angled on subcostal vein then inwardly obli- 

 que, white with dark edges; submarginal line angled below middle; discocellular black with pale edge; the 

 whole surface sprinkled with metallic scales; terminal line white; the termen itself with minute black dots; 

 hindwing with outer line only, curved. Recorded from Japan and Central China. 



C. argillacea Btlr. (51 k). Forewing pale snuff brown ; inner and outer lines dark ; the inner angled on sub- argillacea. 

 costal vein; the outer roundly bent at middle; the inner at costa inwardly, the outer outwardly with an oblique 

 white dash; basal line with a smaller white dash; four distinct white costal spots before apex; terminal dots 

 black: terminal line white; fringe pink with two fine dark lines; cellspot dark; hindwing with the line curved 

 nearly median. Japan and Corea. 



C. hebescens Btlr. (51 k). Forewing dull grey brown varied with rufous and in places with yellowish hehescens. 

 scales, without markings except an indistinct oblique pale subterminal line or band; hindwing similar; the 

 fringe pinkish white. Described from a single $ from Yokohama, Japan. A very dull and inconspicuous insect, 

 whose position still appears doubtful. 



18. Genus: Stenoloba Stgr. 



Tongue developed; frons with a pointed conical prominence; palpi obliquely upcurved, the second 

 segment moderately scaled, the third erect, short; antennae of ^ciliated; thorax coarsely scaled; prothorax with 

 long flattened crest ; metathorax crested; forewing elongate, the apex blunt, the termen curved. Type 8. jankows- 

 kii Oberth. 



S. jankowskii Oberth. (= nivilinea Leech) (51 1). Forewing bluish white; a costal blotch reaching nearly jankowskii. 

 to apex olive brown ; the inner margin grey brown ; the terminal area reddish brown ; an oval spot on discocellular 

 marked by black points below, obsolescent above; outer and subterminal lines finely white, excurved; hindwing 

 brown, whiter towards base. Found in E. Siberia and Japan. 



S. confusa Leech (52 a). Forewing purplish grey and brown, with white markings defined by black, confusa. 

 forming a tangle of intercoalescent bands and streaks to beyond middle; a row of blackish subterminal marks; 

 a white spot on termen in submedian interspace; hindwing white suffused terminally with brown; an obscure 

 wavy outer line. Japan and W. China. 



S. manleyi Leech (51 1). Forewing grey brown basal area with black marks in each fold, its outer manleyi 

 edge oblique to lower fold, then incurved; inner and outer lines double, filled in with whitish; the inner oblique 

 and waved; the outer excurved above and denticulate, incurved below vein 4; median line also double, excurved 

 at middle ; the subterminal whitish, preceded by black dentate marks ; orbicular stigma represented by some 

 orange red scales; reniform by some black marks surrounded by red; hindwing brown with whitish fringe. 

 Japan and Corea. 



S. clara Leech (51 1). Forewing white varied with brown and black; lines black, filled in with white; clara. 

 the subbasal entire, excurved below middle ; inner line oblique and sinuous, the outer excurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved; median line oblique and sinuous, angled outwards below costa and forming a black patch to beyond 

 outer line; the subterminal whitish, preceded by some black and red scaling and a black patch on costa; the ter- 

 minal area, except at apex, brown; orbicular stigma a black dot, reniform a black bar; hindwing whitish with 

 brown suffusion. Taken in several localities in Japan. 



19. Genus : Xantlioleuca Hmps. 



Tongue fully developed ; frons with large truncate corneous prominence with raised rim ; palpi porrect, 

 short : antennae of <$ lamellate, pubescent ; thorax scaled, without distinct crests ; abdomen with slight crest 

 on basal segment of dorsum and with subdorsal scale-fans from basal segment; forewing with produced apex, 

 the termen obliquely curved and even; veins 8, 9 stalked, 6, 7, and 10, 11 free; the hindwing with neuration 

 normal. Type X. staudingeri Stndfs. 



X. staudingeri Stndfs. (52 a). Forewing silvery white; a golden yellow inner band with waved edges, staudingeri. 

 the outer brown; a dentate subterminal bne brown, parallel to termen; the terminal area golden yellow with 

 some brown scales towards each end ; fringe white tipped with brown in places ; hindwing luteous tinged with 

 grey brown, with an obscure diffused brownish outer band; the fringe white. Mardin, Syria. 



20. Genus: Phyllophila Guen. 

 Tongue fully developed; frons with rounded prominence, sometimes roughened at extremity and with 



