378 LAGERA; OXYODES; ISCHYJA. By W. Warren. 



by a brown irregular waved median line and containing a black orbicular dot; costal area between it and 

 outer line redbrown; outer line thick, velvety black, oblique inwards to below 7, then swelling out into a 

 large blotch the inner edge of which forms a blunt protuberance inwards beyond and a slighter one between 

 veins 2 and 3, with an outward trunklike projection between filled in with yellow ochreous, the outer edge 

 obliquely curved inwards and joining inner edge on vein 2, forming an oblique dark streak to vein 1 and a 

 black outward luntde below it; the lower median area olive grey; subterminal line blackish grey, irregularly 

 lunulate dentate, the termen with a brown cloud invading the fringe, except at apex which is ochreous ; hind- 

 wing dark brown, with an interrupted dark subterminal shade, followed by a pale space from vein 2 to 3 with 

 a black mark on 2; basal line of fringe dull orange, the fringe itself dark brown marked with whitish below apex 

 and below vein 2 ; a patch of smooth brown scales along vein 6 towards termen ; face black ; palpi externally, 

 tegulae, and patagia black brown ; dorsum dark brown like hindwing. Described from a single <J in the Tring 

 Museum marked simply ,, China". Superficially very much like bubo Hbn.; distinguished by the black face and 

 darker thorax, as well as by the different structure of the antennae; bubo Hbn. has not been recorded from China 

 or Japan. 



33. Genus: I^acera Guen. 



Tongue developed; palpi upturned, the second segment thick, broad at base, the third thin and erect; 

 antennae of $ shortty ciliated ; thorax and abdomen clothed with coarse hair and scales ; tibiae thickly tufted 

 with hair, without spines; forewing elongate with apex shortly depressed and pointed; the termen oblique 

 and crenulate, shortly produced at veins 4 and 6. Larva with the first two pairs of abdominal prolegs aborted 

 Type L. alope Cram. 



alope. L- alope Cram. (= capella Guen., procellosa Btlr. (68 b). Forewing brownish fuscous, tinged with red; 



lines black; the inner curved, lunulate outwards, dentate inwards on veins; outer line irregularly lunulate 

 dentate, narrowly outbent beyond cell, with a pale mark in the bend and another above vein 1; subterminal 

 line pale, much waved, with a dark blotch at middle; reniform stigma obscure; hindwing with an indistinct, 

 waved, partly double, pale outer line; a dark terminal line with some bluish grey specks on it; underside 

 variegated with purple, red, and white. Larva green, with dark streaks along dorsum, the hind margin of each 

 segment with a dark speck and similar subdorsal specks; two dark prominences on back of segment 12; 

 on Pisonia and Canthium. This common tropical species is found in Japan, and Central and Western China; 

 the type of Butler's procellosa was from Yokohama. 



34. Genus: Oxyodes Guen. 



Tongue present; frons rounded; palpi upturned, the second segment broad and smoothly scaled, the 

 third erect, long and slender; antennae of $ filiform, simple; thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled, slender; 

 forewing with costa strongly arched towards apex, which is prominent but blunt; termen oblique, slightly 

 sinuous; hindwing with rounded termen. Type 0. scrobiculata F. 



scrobiculata. C. scrobiculata F. (= clytia Cram.) (68 c). Forewing yellow ochreous, or brownish ochreous, or grey brown 



without the ochreous tint; lines darker, rather indistinct; the inner irregular, angled on subcostal vein and vein 1; 

 followed by a curved diffuse cloudy median shade ; outer line double, dentate lunulate, the inner arm black and di- 

 stinct ; subterminal line wavy ; the terminal area clouded with darker ; orbicular stigma a black ring ; reniform edged 

 and often filled in with black ; hindwing with double postmedian and wavy subterminal lines ; a velvety black bar 

 along outer half of costa squarely cut off above vein 6. Generally distributed through the tropics, and occurring in 

 China. 



35. Genus : Ischyja Hbn. 



Tongue developed; frons smooth; palpi stout, obliquely porrect, the second segment broad, slightly 

 curved, thickly scaled, the third obliquely porrect forwards, long andspatulate, smoothly scaled ; antennae in 

 $ with fasciculate cilia; thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled; tibiae without spines; the fore tibiae with a 

 triangular tuft of hair; the mid tibiae slightly fringed with hair; the hind tibiae clothed with long hair; 

 forewing with the costa strongly arched towards apex, which is acutely produced; the termen obliquely sinuous; 



