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chequered with black at the tips and black from the base at apex and vein 4; a marginal line of black dashes; 

 hindwing dark grey. Japan. 



L. atrata Btlr. (= sidemiata ObertJt.) (52 d). Forewing deep olive brown, suffused with blackish fuscous atrata. 

 except along terminal area and the course of the inner and outer lines, especially at inner margin ; lines black 

 and waved, indistinct, the outer often with white teeth; claviform and orbicular stigmata with black outlines; 

 reniform with white central lunule surrounded by white dots, and with a whitish costal cloud above it ; subter- 

 minal line white at costa; hindwing blackish fuscous. From Ussuri, E. Siberia and Japan. 



L. confusa Leech (52 d). Forewing violet grey suffused with dark fuscous, the folds and praesubmar- confusa. 

 ginal shade deepest; the stigmata, the filling up of the lines, and the termen grey; the outer line whitish on 

 inner margin; hindwing dirty pale grey in costal half, darker towards inner margin. Recorded from Pu-tsu- 

 fong, W. China. 



L. brunnea Leech (52 d). Forewing pale brownish olive with darker suffusion along the folds and be- brunnea. 

 fore subterminal line ; lines filled in with whitish, and widening towards both margins ; subterminal line whitish ; 

 stigmata with pale rings; hindwing olive fuscous. Yokohama, Japan. 



L. nivata Leech (52 d). Forewing white suffused -with olive brown and irrorated with black; a white nivata. 

 streak on the median vein expanding into a patch above vein 2; inner line black, oblique, waved, internally 

 edged with white ; outer line black, preceded by white lines on the veins, followed by a white band dentate below 

 vein 6 and defining the black lunules which precede the white subterminal line; a large black apical blotch 

 and a smaller one at middle of termen; claviform stigma white, with a slight brown centre, confluent with the 

 white streak ; orbicular and reniform whitish with olive brown centres and whitish annuli ; a blackish patch on 

 middle of costa; hindwing whitish suffused with brown. W. Ohina. 



L. squalidaLeec/t (52e). Forewing pale grey brown, the costal area, except at apex, rather darker ; inner line squalida. 

 inwardly white edged, angled outwards on median vein, then oblique inwards; outer line double, filled in with 

 whitish, obliquely sinuous to vein 6 and incurved below 4; subterminal line pale, obscure, minutely waved; 

 minute terminal lunules; orbicular stigma with an oblique white bar on its outer edge; reniform constricted 

 at middle, partially edged with black; some black suffusion in cell on each side of it; hindwing pale brown; fringe 

 whitish. Nagasaki, Japan, and Ningpo, Central China. 



L. numisma Stgr. (= olivacea Leech) (52 d). Forewing white suffused with a mixture of olive and fus- numisma. 

 cous scales; the base and central fascia darkest; inner line curved, black; outer outcurved above and irregularly 

 dentate-lunulate ; the round claviform and orbicular stigmata and the squarer reniform with pale green centres 

 and white outlines; the two upper separated by a blackish blotch; outer area olive green, with an indistinct 

 pale submarginal line ; hindwing dark grey, with a darker cellspot and pale fringe. Found only in Eastern Asia, 

 Amurland, Japan, China, and Corea. 



L. martjanovi Tschstr. Forewing dark testaceous, the costa at middle darker; the lines blackish; inner martjanovi. 

 obscurely double, outer single, denticulate in upper half; subterminal line pale yellowish, irregularly waved, 

 connected above middle and at inner margin with the similarly coloured termen; orbicular stigma indistinct, 

 oblique, filled in with dark; reniform white, with a fine dark median shade from it to inner margin; hindwing 

 grey with a faint curved outer line. Described from a single <$, of 23 mm. expanse, from Minussinsk, Siberia. 



L. umbrivaga Krul. Compared as to shape and appearance with numerica Bdv. and distinguenda Stgr. umbrivaga. 

 Occurs in Russia. 



L. delicatula Christ. (52 e). Forewing white, towards termen mixed with grey ; a broad dark median fascia, delicahda. 

 edged with black, somewhat mixed with grey, its inner edge with 2, its outer with 3 blunt teeth ; a white black- 

 edged spot at middle; on costa beyond it two dark blotches, the outer apical; fringe grey; hindwing cinereous. 

 Distinguished from deceptoria, which it most resembles, by the smaller size and narrower forewing and absence 

 of the black spot before median fascia. Described from a <J from Ordubat, Armenia. 



L. mollicula Grae-s. Wings broad, the forewing rounded at apex; brown with an admixture of blue- mollicula. 

 grey and fuscous; inner line incomplete, blackish; outer line shown by dark points and flecks; reniform stigma 

 large, yellow edged with black, containing a black wisp in its upper half towards costa and a round black spot 

 in lower half, placed on a narrow median shade, which is traversed by a fine grey-blue line; inner margin blue- 

 grey to middle, towards base mixed with brown, the median space towards costa whitish; the termen 

 browner; hindwing dark grey. Described from a single $ from Amurland. 



