SCHRANKIA; BRITHA; AVENTIOLA. By W. Warren. m 



black, with a very small white middle point, beyond which is an obscure whitish outer line, clearest on inner 

 margin, more oblique than in kalchbcrgi. without a curve beyond cell. N. Caucasia. 



120. Genus: Sclirnnkia H.-Sch. 



Differs from Hi/penodes in the palpi being recurved, sickle-shaped, smoothly scaled, the second segment 

 thickened, the third long and pointed; in the forewing 7 and 8 are coincident, 1), 1(1 stalked. Type S. 

 turfosalis Wocke. 



S. turfosalis Wocke (73 1). Forewing whitish ochreous, irrorated irregularly with brown and dark turfosalis. 

 fuscous; inner line indistinct; outer irregular, oblique, dark fuscous, posteriorly whitish edged; cellspot 

 small, dark, outwardly whitish edged; subterminal line straight, whitish, ill-defined, preceded by fuscous 

 suffusion, running to apex; hmdwing grey. N. Germany, Silesia, Holland, Britain, Switzerland, Jutland. Galicia 

 Russia, E. Siberia, Amurland, Ussuri. 



121. Genus: Rritlia Walk. 



Tongue present; frons smooth; palpi long and obliquely porrect upwards, the second and third segments 

 fringed with very long hair above; antennae bipectinate in <J, with long spines from end of branches; first 

 two segments of dorsum tufted ; forewing of $ with a large smooth patch occupying inner area on underside, 

 with a tuft of long hairs on vein 1 ; hindwing with costa much arched and a large smooth patch on upper- 

 side: veins 3, 4 and 6, 7 stalked; 5 from close above 4. Type B. biguttata Walk. 



B. biguttata Walk. (=incertalis Walk.) (75 e). Forewing grey mixed with red brown; the lines rufous; biguttata. 

 the inner angled on subcostal vein, then oblique inwards; median line similar, but abbreviated; outer line 

 edged with whitish, angled below costa, then oblique inwards, twice bent; subterminal line rufous and whitish, 

 straight and oblique from apex; termen rufous; terminal line fine and two more in the fringes; hindwing 

 fuscous, the median outer area grey and brown, crossed by a short rufous and pale line. The species which 

 occurs from Ceylon to Australia is recorded from N. China. 



B ? pectinata Leech (75e). Forewing pale pinkish brown ; a short, brown , subbasal band ; inner line straight pectinata. 

 towards costa, curved and re curved towards inner margin; median line dark brown preceded by a dark brown 

 shade which is broader towards costa; outer line fuscous, slightly wavy, excurved beyond cell, thence running 

 inwards across median line, beyond which it descends to inner margin; subterminal line fuscous, double, 

 sinuous, rising from a fuscous costal cloud; a dark dot in cell and lunule at its end; hindwing pale fuscous, 

 with obscure outer and subterminal lines on inner margin. 1 $ from Ship-y-shan, Central China. The posi- 

 tion of this insect is doubtful. 



B. inatnbitiosa Leech (75 e). Forewing pale brown ; the lines dark ; the inner outwardly shaded with dark ; inambiliosa. 

 the outer obtusely angled above middle and shaded with dark inwardly; subterminal line fuscous, sinuous, 

 ill-defined; a blackish lunule on discocellular ; hindwing pale fuscous. Described by Leech from a single $■ 

 from Kiu-kiang, Central China. Wileman records 3 $$ with pectinated antennae from Japan. 



122. Genus: Aventiola Stgr. 



Frons smooth with a short tuft; palpi obliquely porrect upwards, the second segment long, fringed 

 with scales above, the third minute ; antennae of $ simple, the segments angulate ; thorax and abdomen, also 

 the tibiae, smoothly scaled; forewing long and narrow; the termen bent at vein 4; veins 7, 8, 9 stalked; 

 hindwing with termen subdentate at vein 4, truncate and subcrenulate to anal angle; veins 3, 4 and 6, 7 

 stalked; 5 from near lower angle of cell. Type A. pusilla Btlr. 



A. pusilla Btlr. (= maculifera Stgr.) (75 e). Forewing brownish grey with slight dark dusting; inner pusilla. 



