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thick and dentate; space between inner and outer lines blackish, with dark central shade and lunule at end 

 of cell; subterminal line white, dentate, ill-defined; hindwing similar, without inner line; the subterminal 

 clearer. Described from 2 $$ from Yoshino, Hondo, Japan. From the figure this species looks out of 

 place here; both wings have the termen crenulate. 



113a. Genus: Ijatirosti'uiii Hmps. 



Tongue present; forehead with tuft of hair above; palpi porrect, very long; second segment 

 fringed with very long hair above, tapering to extremity, the third broadly spatulato at tip; antennae 

 of (J ciliated: thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled; the tibiae hairy; forewing long and narrow; the costa 

 arched at base then straight; the termen produced to points at apex and vein 4; vein 5 almost crowded 

 out; veins S, 9 anastomosing to form areole; vein 5 of hindwing just below middle of discocellular ; ter- 

 men well rounded. Type L. bisacuium Hmps. 



L. bisacutum Hmps. (75 f). Forewing redbrown ; a yellowish patch on inner margin at base ; black spots on bisacutum. 

 a yellow ground in and at the end of cell; above the outer of these a yellowish dark speckled costal patch; 

 subterminal line indistinct, black, inwardly yellowish-edged; a yellow subapical spot and yellowish patch, 

 speckled witlTdark, on termen below middle; a row of black terminal spots; hindwing fuscous, the fringe 

 yellow. An Indian species recorded by Wileman from Japan. 



113b. Genus: Auoratlia Moore. 



Tongue slight; frons smooth; palpi porrect, second segment with a slight downward curve, fringed above 

 with scales, the third long, slender and depressed ; thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled, the latter in £ very 

 elongate; forewing with straight "costa, curved just before apex which is somewhat produced ;" termen elbowed 

 at middle; hindwing with veins 3 and 4 shortly stalked; 5 from middle of^ discocellular ; termen excised to- 

 wards anal angle^in^. Type A. costalis Moore. 



A. paritalis Walk. (75 f). Forewingpale chestnut dusted with darker; the costa slightly paler; inner line very paritalis. 

 indistinct, angulated; an outer straight white line; hindwing fuscous; a slight dark pale-edged flexuous 

 outer line. Recorded by Wileman from Hondo Japan; otherwise from Ceylon. 



- 113 c. Genus : Marapaua Moore. 



Tongue present; frons smooth; palpi with second segment very long, porrect, the third short, slightly 

 upturned; antennae of $ minutely ciliated; forewing with apex subacute; the termen sinuous; hindwing 

 with anal angle truncate ; 5 from below middle of discocellular; 3 and 4 shortly stalked. Type M. pulverata 

 Ouen. 



Sect. I. Second and third segments of palpi fringed: with hair above; 

 vein 10 of forewing from areole. 



M. olivescens Hmps. (751). Forewing whitish tinged with ochreous and pink and on costal area with olive olivescens. 

 green; an inner olive green band from subcostal vein to inner margin, obliquely curved; an obscure dark- 

 edged whitish lunule at end of cell, with black dot at lower angle and traces of a waved line thence to inner 

 margin; outer line pale, oblique, with olive green beyond it from costa to vein 4, where it is strongly angled 

 and becomes obsolescent; subterminal Hue indistinct, pale, lunulate, strongly angled at vein 5, with black 

 streak from its angle into the fringe; a row of short black striae just before termen, which is excurved 

 below apex, and sharply angled at vein 4; hindwing purplish pink with dark cell dot; a faint sinuous outer 

 line ; termen crenulate, with fine dark line. Described from Wynaad, Madras and Ceylon ; recorded by Wile- 

 :ua>" from Yoshino, Hondo, Japan. 



Sect. II. Second segment of palpi fringed with hair only at extremity, 

 third naked; vein of forewing from beyond areole. 



