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patagia with black oblique line; palpi blackish, abdomen grey-brown. 

 Legs blackish, the tarsi ringed with white. Fore-wing dark brown, 

 inixd with red-brown and grey, basal area red-brown, antemedial line 

 double, the inner line red-brown, the outer line black, bent outwards 

 below costa, slightly incurved in cell and at vein 1; orbicular ,reniform 

 and a spot below outer edge of former large, grey with some dark 

 brown in centres, defined by black, the first open above and below, 

 the las-t two open above; postmedial line double, the inner line indistinct 

 and red-brown from costa to vein 5, the black and distinct, the outer 

 line red-brown, bent outwards below costa, excurved and minutely 

 waved to vein 3 and excurved on submedian fold, some whitish points 



beyond it on costa; subterminal line greyish 

 white defined on both sides with diffused 

 brown, excur ved below vein 7 and at middle; 

 terminal line black, defined by greyish white 

 on inner side and not waved; cilia brown, 

 with a dark waved line at middle. Hind 



wing dark cupreous brown, with the base _. . ., " ~~ . ^ -. 



ö L ; Fig. 6 Abrostola tocionip, -$•• j- 



paler; an indistinct dark postmedial line, 



excurved on vein 6 and 2; cilia yellowish white, tinged with brown at 

 base. Underside of fore wing suffused with fu e cous and irr orated with 

 grey on the costal and terminal areas; po&tmedial line dark; hind wing 

 white, irrorated with fuscous, with a dark discoidal mark, a curved 

 postmedialline and a diffused subterminal band. 



Expanse : 25 mm. 



Type : A male specimen from Tokyo, May 17. 1912. 



Comes near to A. triopis, Hampsn. and A. brostolina, Butl., but 

 differs from the former in the hind wing being darker and from the 



