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a marginal series of black dots ; fringe shining grey, white-tipped, intersected by an indistinct 

 dusky line : secondaries grey, with brown marginal spots ; costal area and fringe whitish : 

 body above sandy whitish. Under surface white, primaries with greyish centre ; two whitish 

 dots at the end of the cell, a dusky discal line and a series of black marginal dots ; secon- 

 daries with a dot at the end of the cell, a discal series and a marginal series black. Expanse 

 of wings 1 inch 4-6 lines. 



Yokohama (Jonas). 



MICARDIA, Butler. 



Micardia argentata. (Plate XXVIII. fig. 3.) 



Micardia argentata, Butler, Ann. 6f Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 81 (1878). 



Primaries shining sordid whity brown ; a large cuneiform silvery-white discoidal patch ; 

 central area olivaceous, varied with rose-colour, bounded externally by an oblique white line and 

 connected, by an oblique olivaceous streak, with the apex ; a submarginal whitish line and a 

 marginal series of black dots : secondaries pale greyish brown, with dusky marginal dots and 

 whitish fringe : body corresponding in colour with the wings ; thorax crossed by a white belt. 

 Primaries below shining greyish ; costa sandy whitish, outer and inner borders shining cream- 

 colour ; secondaries shining white : body below greyish. Expanse of wings 1 inch 2-3 lines. 



Yokohama (Jonas). 



Micardia pulchra. (Plate XXVIII. fig. 4.) 

 Micardia pulchra, Butler, Ann. $( Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 81 (1878). 



Primaries whity brown, the whole central area and a discal streak (bounded internally by 

 a white-edged lilac streak, and externally by a submarginal white line) more or less tawny ; 

 a large subquadrate blackish patch bounded by the orbicular and reniform spots, which are 

 lilac and white-edged ; a large white-edged elliptical ochreous costal spot near apex ; an in- 

 terrupted black marginal line ; fringe grey-tipped : secondaries silvery greyish, with an inter- 

 rupted dusky marginal line and whitish fringe : body corresponding in general tint with the 

 opposite wings. Under surface shining creamy white ; primaries greyish in the centre. Expanse 

 of wings 1 inch 2-3 lines. 



Yokohama (Jonas). 



A.VAM1YDM. 



OCHRIA, Hubner. 



Ochria fortis. (Plate XXVIII. fig. 9.) 



Ochria fortis, Butler, Ann. Sf Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 83 (1878). 



? . Allied to O.flavago of Europe, the yellow areas of the primaries much paler, the line 

 interrupted by the reniform spot forming a semicircle; the discoidal spots much larger; the 

 subbasal brown belt darker and much constricted below the median vein ; submarginal band, 



