24 APAMIID^. — XYLOPHASIIDJE. 



excepting at apex, suffused with brown and therefore indistinct : secondaries greyish brown, 

 sordid whitish in the middle and at base : thorax and head brown ; collar stramineous ; 

 abdomen sordid whitish. Wings below pale shining sandy brown ; the fringe and discocellulars 

 of primaries and two transverse streaks (the outer one of primaries diffused) dusky. Expanse 

 of wings 1 inch 10 lines. 

 Yokohama {Jonas). 



GORTYNA, Ochsenheimer. 



Gortyna acuminata. (Plate XXIX. fig. 1.) 



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



Brown, slightly glossed with lilacine and clouded with grey ; primaries with the costa 

 and two divergent whitish-edged transverse lines golden brown; basal area pale, bounded 

 externally by a whitish line ; outer border pale, with irregularly zigzag inner edge ; discoidal 

 spots greyish, edged internally with whitish and golden brown ; a marginal series of blackish 

 lunules ; fringe grey : secondaries with a broad triangular greyish patch from the middle of the 

 cell to the abdominal margin ; an ill-defined greyish discal band ; costal area testaceous : palpi 

 and antennae burnt-sienna; abdomen with the segmental margins, sides, and anus ochraceous. 

 Under surface reddish ochraceous, shining ; primaries with an ill-defined darker discal streak. 

 Expanse of wings 1 inch 9-10 lines. 



Yokohama {Jonas). 



XYLOPHASIID^. 



XYLOPHASIA, Stephens. 

 Xylophasia sodalis. (Plate XXIX. fig. 2.) 

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



Intermediate in character between X. rurea and X. hepatica of Europe, with the pattern 

 of the former, but the deeper coloration of the latter ; darker and more silky than either, and 

 the dark marginal spots of the primaries with a dull lilacine gloss: wings below not suffused 

 with rose-colour as in X. hepatica, but with grey fringes (dark in primaries), spotted with 

 ochraceous nearly as in X. rurea. Expanse of wings 1 inch 9 lines. 



Yokohama {Jonas). 



APAMEA, Ochsenheimer. 



Apamea conciliata. (Plate XXIX. fig. 3.) 



Apamea conciliata, Butler, Ann. <$f Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 84 (1878). 



Intermediate between A. connexa and A. gemina of Europe, with the form and general 

 colouring of the latter, but with the irregular transverse band identical in shape with that of 



