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indented outer edge, followed by the interrupted waved while subterminal line, defined externally by black 

 brown, oblique to outer band below vein 5 and strongly benl outwards between veins 4 and 3; terminal area 

 greyer; hindwing fuscous brown: inner line indistinct, dark, excurved to submedian fold, then oblique; a 

 pure while outer band with dentate outer edge; subterminal line with narrow oblique white bar below costa, 



the while defined externally by black brown, benl inwards to near outer band, waved and defined externally 

 by grey hairs between veins li and 4, and from vein 3 to inner margin; underside of both wings with basal 

 half greyish; the while outer band of forewing broken up into spots. The type, a?, from Hongkong; Guenee's 

 supposed leucotamia from Manilla, the Philippines. 



10. Genus: Patula Gum. 



Differs from Nyctipao in the hindwing of cf having the costal half aborted, forming a fold turned 

 over on upper side containing a large patch of llocculent hair; vein 4 running to the functional apex, 6 to 

 the fold, 7 and 8 quite short to near base of costa; vein 5 from middle of discocellular ; wings ample, with 

 crenulate termen, of sombre coloration. Type P. macrops L. 



P. macrops L. (= bubo F., boopis Gum.) (58 e). Forewing brownish fuscous shot with purplish; inner macrops. 

 and median lines black and waved; a large fulvous whorl-shaped stigma beyond cell, outlined with black, 

 with a black comma-shaped pupil having blue streaks and specks on it: outer line broadly double, irregu- 

 larly waved, excurved above round the stigma and incurved below it; a double subterminal line, formed of 

 sinuous rows of black spots, the inner of which is obsolescent towards costa; hindwing with a median black- 

 line curved round cell: an outer series of lunules, with two sinuous rows of spots beyond; the <? has tufts 

 of fulvous hair round claspers in the anal segment of abdomen. A widely spread eastern species, occurring 

 in Central and Western China. 



11. Genus: Metopta Swinh. 



Tongue developed; Irons smooth; palpi upturned, the third segment slender, nearly as long as the 

 second: thorax and abdomen clothed with hair, without crests; mid and hind tibiae spined; antennae bipec- 

 tinate to apex, more feebly in ?; cell short in both wings; vein 5 from close above 4; forewing marked with 

 a whorl shaped stigma, as in Nyctipao. Type M. rectifasciata Mm. 



M. rectifasciata Mm. (= japonica Wlk. nee Gum., interlineata Btlr) (58 c, d). Forewing brownish ^^iata 

 fuscous, thickly dusted with violet grey scales between inner and median lines below middle, and in the 

 terminal area beyond subterminal line; space between middle and outer lines and an irregular cloud beyond 

 subterminal deep brownish fuscous; inner line dark, waved, slightly paler edged; median line oblique, only 

 visible below the stigma; outer line oblique, parallel to median, followed by a cream white band with a 

 central brown thread, and variable in width and intensity; space beyond before subterminal line pale brown 

 dusted with dark brown or wholly dark brown; subterminal finely whitish, with two irregular outward pro- 

 jections and deep sinuses on each fold: costal streak pale violet brown; the whorl-shaped stigma pale brown 

 edged finely with black and yellowish: the bilobed head still paler, marked with a few bluish scales; hindwing 

 with the basal half deep brownish fuscous, limited by a straight line followed by a creamy band with diffuse 

 radiating outer edge; subterminal line whitish, very deeply lunulate dentate, preceded and followed by deep 

 brownish fuscous; terminal area as in forewing; fringe of both wings brown. Appears common in China and 

 Japan: also found in Formosa. Specimens from China and Formosa, as a rule, have the white band narrower 

 and less conspicuous than Japanese. 



12. Genus: fhinionodia Gum. 



Tongue developed; frons smooth, with a tuft of hair above; palpi upturned, the second segment broadly 

 scaled, the third long: all the tibiae spined; thorax and abdomen smooth; wings ample; the forewing with 

 apex prominent; the sexes different: underside of hindwing in cT clothed with long woolly hair, except the 

 costal area. Type E. pudens Walk. 



Sect. Ill: Antennae of & with short fascicles of cilia. 



Subsect. A. Forelegs of cf with erectile tuft of long hair from the femoro-tibial joint. 



E. vespertilio F. (= signata Walk., dulcina Fldr., pandia Fldr.) (59 b). c? Forewing pale fawn colour vespertilio. 

 along costal third, the rest of wing suffused with olive, which tint is variable both in extent and depth; in 

 general the basal area below vein 1, the median area below middle of cell, and an oblique shade from apex 



