32G DERMALEIPA; ARTENA; MINUCIA. By W. Warren. 



lamellate; all the tibiae spined; thorax and abdomen rough haired, without crests; forewing with costa strongly 

 arched; the apex produced to a long acute point: termen well curved; inner margin strongly convex; vein 6 

 from the depressed end of cell, 7 and 8, 9, 10, all three stalked, from the bend: hindwing with cell quite 

 short, the discocellular biangulate. Type X. pundifascia Leech. 



puncHfascia. X. punctifascia Leech. Forewing brown, with some blackish irroration in and around cell; crossed by 



live transverse angled olive brown lines, of which the outer and subterminal are most distinct; an oblique 

 brown streak from apex to two velvety marks in cell; the upper one in the cf divided into two parts, in 

 the ? entire, Y-shaped: hindwing blackish, terminally brown; an outer row of six large fulvous blotches. 

 Omei-shan and Chia-kou-ho, West China. The insect mimics a dead leaf in its shape and the markings 

 of forewing. 



15. Genus: Dermaleipa Saalm. 



Tongue well developed: frons smooth, with a small tuft of hair; palpi upturned, moderately scaled, 

 short: antennae minutely ciliated; vertex of head tufted; mid and hind tibiae spined; thorax and abdomen 

 hairy, without crests; forewing of cf with costa arched before middle, insinuate in middle: apex produced; 

 hindwing of cT with tuft of long hair on upperside above middle of inner margin. Type B.juno Balm. 



juno. D. juno Balm. {= elegans van der Hoev., multicolor Gueti.) (60 d). Forewing varying in ground colour 



from chestnut brown to ochreous^ brown and grey brown; lines fine, brown, partially pale-edged; inner line 

 oblique outwards, outer oblique inwards, with a slight angle beneath costa; a submarginal ' curved line from 

 apex to anal angle; inner margin rufous; orbicular stigma a black dot; reniform indistinctly outlined, often 

 with a black spot in both lobes; hindwing with basal three-fourths black, its outer edge dentate, containing 

 an ill-defined bluish median band, not reaching either margin; terminal area crimson, with a dark patch at 

 middle of termen. An Indian species, found also in Japan, Corea, China and Amuiiand. The distinctness of 

 the reniform stigma as well as of the lines varies greatly in both sexes. 



16. Genus: Artena Walk. 



Tongue present; frons smooth with tuft of hair at top; palpi upturned, the second segment thickly 

 scaled, third short and smooth; antennae of cf shortly ciliated; mid and hind tibiae spined; thorax and ab- 

 domen smooth, without crests; forewing with costa not sinuate, the apex blunt; underside of hindwing clothed 

 with rough pilose hair; vein 1 without stiff and close row of hairs; forewing with two outwardly oblique, 

 more or less parallel lines; hindwing dark, usually with a slight pale bluish median band. Type A. submira Walk. 



dotata. A. dotata F. (60 c). Forewing grey brown; median area paler; terminal area dark brown, with an 



irregular angled darker cloud; lines slender, blue grey, outwardly oblique; inner line nearly straight from 1 / b 

 of costa to beyond middle of inner margin; outer line irregularly waved and slightly curved from costa lo 

 vein 2, then oblique and straight; subterminal line straight, the brown before it deeper, the narrow terminal 

 area beyond it lilac grey, containing a dark marginal festoon before the dark terminal line; fringe grey with 

 a dark middle line, at anal angle paler; orbicular stigma a round dark clot ; reniform consisting of two super- 

 imposed brown black-edged rings; hindwing blackish, with a curved median pale blue band from vein 6 to 2; 

 fringe white; termen dusted with whitish. An Indian species extending to Tonkin, Hainan, Formosa, and 

 obsolete. Borneo: also found in China: ab. obsoleta ab. nov. (60 d) has the forewing uniform pale brownish fawn colour, 

 only the dark subterminal line and the pale terminal space beyond it marked; the reniform stigma hardly 

 visible; hindwing altogether paler; described from a ? from Shillong, Assam, in the Tring Museum. 



17. Genus: Minucia Mo 



ore. 



Tongue present; frons smooth, tufted above; palpi upturned, of moderate length, the second segment 

 with thick appressed scales, the third porrect, blunt; thorax with a slight central ridge; abdomen smooth, 

 without crests; antennae in c? ciliated; mid and hind tibiae spined. Type M. lunaris Schiff 



lunaris. M. lunaris Schiff (= augur Esp.) (60 e). Forewing pale ash grey, faintly dusted with dark, with a 



slight ochreous tinge, always darker in the ?, tinged with pale red brown; inner and outer lines yellowish, 

 t lie inner nearly straight, slightly bent inwards on subcostal vein and vein 1 ; the outer sinuous, approaching 

 inner line on inner margin; orbicular a brown dot; reniform a brownish lunule; both lines followed by a 



