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broadly edged along the lines with pale chocolate brown : a brown irregular subapieal cloud beneath an apic- 

 al grey triangular space; a small brown costal patch before the indistincl submarginal lino; hindwing 

 brownish fuscous. Japan and Kiushiu, 



H. belinda Btlr. (73 i). Forewing reddish brown in basal half, grey brown with dark striae in terminal belinda. 

 area; the basal half is limited by the nearly straight vertical whitish outer line, which is followed by a 

 bluish white diffusely edged band with blackish striae on it; inner line scarcely visible; above vein 7 a black 

 spot outwardly tipped with a white dash indicates the position of the subterminal line, which is preceded 

 by one or two brown clouds ; a row of black dots on a narrow pale brown terminal space ; hmdwing dark 

 fuscous. Found in Japan, Corea, and Kiushiu. 



H. subcyanea £//>■. (75d). Forewing greyish brown, shot with pale lilacine blue, towards base becoming subcyanea. 

 silvery blue: two or three black dots near base; outer line oblique, black, slightly crinkled towards costa, 

 crossed by an oblique white apical dash; a discal series of black dots or abbreviated dashes; fringe dark 

 brown: hindwing with a fine whitish terminal line; the termen itself black; fringe whitish. Described 

 from a single example from Formosa: Leech records its~occurrence in Japan, Corea, Foo-chau, and Chang- 

 yang. Central China. 



H. rivuligera Zfr/r. (75d). Forewing fuliginous brown ; a terminal series of linear black dots; a testaceous rivuligera. 

 line at base of fringe, which is externally chequered with oehreous; a very irregular lilacine subbasal line; 

 inner and outer lines parallel, very irregularly sinuated, lilacine; costal area here and there irrorated with pale 

 scales. Tokio and Yokohama, Japan. Allied to lacessalis Walk, from India. 



H. rectivittalis ? Moore (= beatalis Fldr., minna <$ Btlr., vecordialis Swinh.) (73 i, k). $ Forewing pale reciiviltalis 

 grey, with a violet or pale brownish suffusion, and speckled or freckled with dark; inner line dark, rarely 

 well expressed, outwardly toothed on subcostal and median veins, and strongly excurved below submedian 

 fold: a white dot surrounded with =black scales in base of cell and some black scales only at its end; outer 

 line straight and oblique, double, black and brown, the space between filled up with brown; subterminal 

 line dentate lunulate, the outward teeth marked by black dashes between veins, indented on both folds; a row 

 of black dots before termen; <§ (= minna Btlr.) with the outer line single, fine and brown; the subterminal 

 line ending in a round black 'spot on inner margin just beyond outer line; hindwing fuscous; ab. obscura obscum. 

 ab. nov. (73 k) has the whole forewing densely dusted with fuscous and black scales; the outer line in $ not 

 filled in with dark, and in $ followed by a clear pale line; in ab. innotata ab. nov. (73 k) the forewing is almost innotata. 

 without markings, except the outer line and the spot at base of subterminal line; in ab. picta ab. nov. (73 k) victa. 

 the costal edge is strongly fulvous, the ground colour lilac or slate grey; the basal area paler, becoming oehreous 

 before the well-marked inner line which is rust-coloured; the outer line is red brown followed by a diffuse 

 vinous red shade; the subterminal well marked; stigmata hardly shown. 1 $ from Japan. The species occurs 

 in Japan, China, and Corea, as well as India. 



H. iconicalis Walk. (= sulalis Walk., subnotalis Walk., similata Moore) (73 k). Forewing reddish grey ieonicalis. 

 brown, slightly dusted with dark atoms; inner line sinuous, indistinct; a black speck in cell; median line dark, 

 straight, almost vertical, with some bluish grey scaling on outer edge and often with the area beyond it grey; 

 a sinuous subterminal series of black and white spesks; hindwing fuscous. Leech records a single example 

 from Moupin, W. China of this common Indian and Malay species. 



H. masurialis G-'?iew. (=obacerralis Walk.)(75d). Forewing pale or dark greyish red brown, slightly dusted masurmlis. 

 with dark scales; an obscure waved inner line, followed by a dark dot in cell; an oblique, slightly sinuous, 

 ferruginous line from costa before apex to middle of inner margin; traces of an oblique dark line from the 

 apex, often with a more or less complete series of dark speaks on it; hindwing fuscous; the ab. caerulealis caerulealis. 

 Walk. fromX. India and Australia has the costal area of forewing whitish; the subsp. ferriscitalis Walk, from ferristifalis. 

 Australia is a dark form, while eremialis from Sind is much paler, with the markings obsolete. An Indian eremialis. 

 and Australian species extending into Kashmir, a single specimen is reaorded by Leech also from Ship-y- 

 shan, Central China. 



H. strigifera spec. nov. (731). Forewing bluish grey tinged with pale red brown in basal half , entirely red- strigifera. 

 dish brown towards termen, covered with numerous red brown and fuscous irregular interlacing striae; inner 



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