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subterminal whitish followed by dark spots below vein 5; reniform stigma small, white, with two black dots 

 on it; hindwing brownish, paler at base. Described originally from India ; the type of basalis from Shanghai, 

 C. China, 



M. arefacta Bth. (51m). Forewing cream white; basal area, especially on costa, dusted with grey arefacta. 

 specks ; an inverted funnel-shaped olive-brown central fascia edged by the inner and median lines ; the inner 

 oblique inwards, black, with a clear pale line inside it; the median more vertical to below middle, then out- 

 curved, black, with pale outer edge ; oiiter line oblique outwards from costa through a white space, angled at 

 6 and incurved, its lower course lost in a mixture of black and white scales ; reniform stigma edged with pale, 

 containing two black spots; terminal area brown, with pale submarginal line, sometimes preceded by black 

 scaling forming lines ; hindwing fuscous grey ; the blackish dusting of forewing is very variable, being sometimes 

 entirely absent, China and Japan. 



M. melaleuca Hmps. (52b). Forewing black with a white triangle on costa beyond middle; the black melaleuca. 

 is tinged with fuscous and shows a purplish tinge when fresh; inner, outer, and subbasal lines blacker, wavy, 

 but indistinct, accompanied by brown scales; the outer line black at inner margin where it is edged with white 

 and followed by a rufous ochreous patch; stigmata indistinct, like the lines; hindwing brownish fuscous. From 

 Ningpo, Changyang, and Chusan Island, Central China. 



M. plumbitincta Hmps. (52 b). Forewing olive-tinged ochreous, suffused with fuscous olive and leaden plumbi- 

 grey patches, the terminal area and patches on inner margin on each side of central fascia alone remaining iincta - 

 pale, the lower part of central fascia and the praesubmarginal shading being darkest ; inner and outer lines leaden 

 grey, marked with white at inner margin; reniform stigma leaden grey; hindwing whitish, darker towards 

 Yatong, Tibet. 



26. Genus • Hyperstrotia Hmps. 



Differs from Lithacodia Hbn. in having no areole in the forewing; veins 7, 8, 9 being stalked and 10, 

 11 from cell; in the hindwing veins 3, 4 are stalked, and the costal and subcostal anastomose for half of cell. 

 Type H. aetheria G-rote from N. America. 



Sect. 2. Veins 10 and 11 of forewing quite separate at origin. 



H. flavipuncta Leech (52 b). Forewing pale purplish grey, from base to middle and again along termen flavipunda. 

 tinged with rufous; inner line black, obliquely waved, inwardly white- edged above inner margin, preceded 

 there by a grey triangular blotch; median line black, obliquely waved, followed by white scaling from costa 

 to cell; outer line edged externally with white, but indistinct, denticulate; subterminal line faint; an elliptical 

 yeUowish white spot in place of the usual claviform stigma; the upper stigmata absent; hindwing grey suf- 

 fused and dusted with brown. Yokohama, Japan. 



27. Genus : Uthacoclia Hbn. 



Tongue present ; frons roughly scaled ; palpi upcurved, strong, the second segment roughly haired beneath, 

 the third smooth, pointed, varying in length ; antennae of <$ pubescent ; thorax and abdomen roughly scaled; 

 metathorax with undeveloped tufts : dorsum tufted, the tufts on segments 3 and 4 larger ; forewing triangu- 

 lar, the costa and termen curved; veins 7, 8, and 9, 10 stalked, 8 and 9 anastomosing to form the areole; 

 hindwing with vein 5 from well above 4, curved at its origin; veins 3, 4 stalked. Larvae with the first pair of ab- 

 dominal prolegs aborted; feeding, those that are known, on grasses; hybernating as pupae in a spun cocoon on 

 the ground. Type L. bellicula Hbn. 



L. fasciana L. (= strigilis Schdff., fuscula#c/ii//., polygramma Esp., praeduncula Btlr.) (52b). Fore- fasciana. 

 wing white, suffused with fuscous and black; inner and outer lines double, blackish; the inner filled in with 

 grey and obscure; the outer with white, strongly excurved beyond cell; stigmata grey, with paler outlines; 

 the orbicular round, the reniform kidney shaped ; separated by black scaling, which also follows the reniform; 

 claviform grey brown, edged with white at end, and followed by black scaling ; submarginal line pale, preceded by 

 dark shading which thins out towards inner margin ; the space beyond outer line in lower half of wing more or 

 less white; hindwing fuscous: the fringe whitish; — in the form albilinea Haw. (52 b) the dark shading before albilinea. 

 submarginal line is so strongly developed to inner margin that the white space beyond outer line is reduced 

 to a narrow line from costa to inner margin; in albomarginata Spul., owing to the scanty development of the albomargi- 

 same shading the white reaches costa as a broad band; — in the form gueneei Fallou, from S. W. France, the naia " 

 wing is suffused with rufous, or, as Fallotj called it, nut-brown. Larva green when young, later yellowish 

 with broad reddish dorsal stripe and several fine reddish lateral lines; on Molinia coerulea; apparently in the 



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