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EDESSENA; CIDARIPLURA. By W. Warren. 



annulata. P. annulata Leech. Forewing dull clouded grey; inner line black, vertical, thrice curved ; outer line 



dentate lunulate, outcurved round cell, starting from a black costal spot; subterminal line irregularly waved 

 and dentate, pale with a dark shade before it; orbicular a black dot; reniform with black lateral edges; 

 hindwing with blackish cellspot, waved and dentate outer and subterminal lines edged with paler grey; black 

 terminal lunules on each wing. From Ta-tsien-lu and Wa-ssu-kow, W. China. 



cttrvipalpis. P. curvipalpis Btlr. (= quadra Graes.) (71 i, k). Forewing blackish fuscous; inner line vertical, dark, 



grey-edged inwardly; outer line black, edged with vvhitish at costa, not so strongly excurved round cell as in 

 albomaculata, nor so insinuate below cell; subterminal line waved, finely white; orbicular stigma a white 

 dot; reniform a white spot; hindwing with black inner line and dentate white-edged outer and subterminal 

 lines. Smaller than albomaculata. Described from Yokohama, Japan, the species is also found in Amurland, and 

 at Gensan and Tsuruga in Corea. 



Sect. II. The lines or bands oblique. 



pryeri. P. pryeri Btlr. (74 f). Forewing purplish grey, with four oblique blackish lines; inner line entire; median 



shade thick, not reaching costa, touching a yellowish reniform stigma with dark lunular centre ; outer line fine, 

 bent below costa; subterminal grey, also bent below costa, preceded by a broad blackish shade; terminal 

 lunules dark before a bright white basal line; hindwing with three lines, the subterminal angled in middle. 

 Yokohama, Japan. 



hdleri. P. butleri Leech (74 f). Resembles pryeri; but without yellow reniform, the subterminal line white, 



straight, and complete to apex in both wings. Kiukiang, Central China. 



obliqua. P. obliqua Stgr. (71 k). Forewing narrower, light chocolate grey, dusted with dark; inner line marked 



by dark spots; the veins whitish; a black spot at lower angle of cell; an oblique outer line of black points 

 from before apex to before middle of inner margin, sometimes f orining a line and externally edged with whitish ; 

 subterminal line from apex to inner margin before tornus edged outwardly with white, the space between 

 it and outer hue dark; hindwing whitish with two slight dark outer lines ; the shaft of antennae of <J broad, 

 with strong cilia and a slight thickening before middle. Ussuri district. 



95. Genus: Edessena Walk. 



Tongue present; frons smooth, slightly rounded; palpi flattened, upcurved, the second segment 

 broad, closely scaled, the third about half as long, pointed ; antennae of <J subserrate, with a pair of curv- 

 ed bristles from each serration; thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled; femora and tibiae with enormous 

 tufts of hair, the base of tarsi with smaUer tufts; forewing ample in $, more elongate in (J, the apex 

 produced, the termen slightly sinuous, the anal angle truncate in the $; hindwing large; discocellular in 

 both wings followed by a subhyahne space; veins 6, 7 of hindwing stalked; vein 5 from close above lower 

 angle of cell. Type E. gentiusalis Walk. 



ge>Uiu8alis. E. gentiusalis Walk. (72 a). Forewing blackish fuscous, with traces of inner, median, outer, and sub- 



terminal parallel waved black lines; a large blotch beyond discocellular subhyaline white, its inner edge 

 straight, the outer variable; a minute white dot in cell; hindwing with three dark lines, and a hardly 

 perceptible white line beyond discocellular. N. W. China and Japan. 



hamada. E. hamada Fldr. (72 a). Forewing dull greyish fuscous, sometimes washed with grey in terminal area; 



the lines more visible; the white blotch much smaller, angled; hindwing with the white mark plainer. China 

 and Japan. Apparently much commoner than the type species. 



96. Genus: C'idariplura Btlr. 



Allied to Edessena, distinguished at once by the enormously developed palpi of the $; the first 

 segment porrect, some 4 mm in length, the second and third, equally long, bent back at an acute angle over 



