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B. spacoalis Walk. Forewing greyish fuscous tinged with purple; the lines white, oblique; the inner spacoalis. 

 nearly vertical; the outer waved, dilated towards costa; hindwing with the outer line noarly straight. De- 

 scribed from N. China; also in E. and W. China, Corea, Japan, and Yesso. 



B. bistrigata Shjr. Forewing dark grey brown, almost brown black; inner and outer lines straight, Ustrigata. 

 sulphur yellow; the inner often somewhat curved; the outer just beyond middle, always straight; at end 

 of cell a curved yellowish streak, often connected by short yellow dashes with the outer line; subterminal 

 line pale, faint, denticulate; hindwing dark, above anal angle with the beginning of two paler cross lines. 

 The species was described from Amurland and is recorded by Leech from Japan. Antennae of <$ shortly bi- 

 pectinate, with long cilia and no swelling. 



B. marginata Leec/« (74k). Forewmg pale whitish brown, darker in basal area and between the two lines, marginata. 

 which are blackish ; the inner inwardly oblique ; the outer excurved from costa to below middle, then sharply 

 incurved, and lastly straight to inner margin; subterminal line blackish, inwardly shaded with dark brown; 

 reniform a dark lunule on a dusky median shade; hindwing with obscure median line and dark subterminal 

 band; a black cell dot. Described by Leech from a single <J taken at Kiukiang, Central China. The antennae 

 are bipectinate. 



105. Genus: AplacLrapsa gen. nov. 



Distinguished from Adrapsa, Badiza, and their allies by the antennae of the c? being armed with long 

 bristles and not contorted by thickening; Type A. ochracea Leech. 



A. ochracea Leech (741). Forewing pale ochreous brown, the terminal area purplish brown;' lines blackish, ochracea. 

 indistinct; the inner slightly curved; the outer waved and sinuous; subterminal pale, sinuous, foUowed 

 below apex by an ochreous blotch; orbicular and reniform stigmata whitish outlined with fuscous, separated 

 by a dark median shade; hindwing with basal as well as terminal area purplish brown. Ichang and Moupin, 

 China. Antennae of o with long bristles, not contorted. 



106. Genus: Trotosema Btlr. 



Allied to Echana; palpi not so long, recurved and closely apphed to the face; forewing broad and 

 short; the costa beyond cell with a pouchlike tuft of over lapping curly hair in the $. Type T. sordidum 

 Btlr. 



T. sordidum Btlr. (741). Forewmg dull fuscous ; inner line plain only on inner margin ; outer line lunulate sordidum. 

 dentate, very fine and obscure; subterminal line pale, sinuous, preceded by a dark shade; stigmata black; 

 the orbicular a dot, the reniform a vertical black spot; median shade thick below middle, extended across 

 hindwing before middle, followed by outer and subterminal lines. Known only from a single <J from Yoko- 

 hama, Japan. 



107. Genus: Bleptina Guen. 



Tongue present; frons smooth; palpi sickle-shaped, the second segment reaching far above vertex, 

 the third long and pointed, slender, with tuft of hair on inner side; antennae of <J with short fascicles of 

 cilia; thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled; forewing with areole; hindwing with vein 5 from near lower angle 

 of cell; foretibiae usually with a sheath beneath which are hidden masses of flocculent scales. Type B. confu- 

 salis Guen. from S. America. 



B. albovenata Leech (72 g). Forewing fuliginous brown; the markings white; inner and outer lines albovenala. 

 oblique, the outer somewhat excurved about middle; median vein and its branches to just beyond outer 

 line and the discoceUular white; orbicular stigma black ringed with white; reniform consisting of two black 

 dots; subterminal whitish, generally indistinct; hindwing fuscous; outer line interrupted; traces of a pale 

 subterminal line. From various localities in Western China. 



