34 XYLINID^E. — PLTTSIID^. 



XYLINA, Ocks. 



Xylina pruinosa. (Plate XXXI. fig. 6.) 

 -Xylina pruinosa, Butler, Ann. fy Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 197 (1878). 



Primaries above shining silver-grey, with an indistinct paler discal band ; the base of the 

 cell, three blackish-edged discoidal spots, an oval subbasal spot on the internal area, and a 

 small partly black-edged rounded spot paler grey ; a marginal undulated dark line ; fringe 

 irrorated with white : secondaries sordid white, the apex and outer border broadly grey ; 

 fringe testaceous at the base, tipped with white, grey in the centre ; thorax grey, speckled with 

 testaceous and white; abdomen pale greyish, with darker dorsal line and rosy brownish fringe. 

 Wings below shining silvery whitish, with opaque brown-speckled costse to all the wings and 

 outer border to primaries ; secondaries with a dusky discocellular dot ; body rosy brownish. 

 Expanse of wings 1 inch 5 lines. 



Yokohama (Pryer and Jonas). 



ANTHOPHILID^. 



ANTHOPHILA, Ochs. 

 Anthophila paradisea. (Plate XXXI. fig. 4.) 

 Anthophila paradisea, Butler, Ann. Sf Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 199 (1878). 



Primaries with the basal half pale lemon-yellow, white at base of inner margin ; disk 

 bright rose-colour, whitish on the costa near apex, and indistinctly blotched with bronzy 

 brown ; outer border bronzy brown, bounded internally by a series of white dots ; fringe bright 

 rose-colour : secondaries pale brown ; fringe white, tipped with rose-colour : head and thorax 

 lemon-yellow, abdomen white. Primaries below pale greyish brown, with whitish borders ; 

 base of costa and outer half of fringe rose-colour : secondaries white, fringe tipped with pink • 

 pectus white ; legs and palpi rose-coloured externally ; venter greyish. Expanse of wings 

 1 inch 2 lines. 



Yokohama (Jonas). 



PLUSIIDiE. 



PLTJSIA, Ocks. 



Plusia typinota. (Plate XXXI. fig. 10.) 



Plusia typinota, Butler, Ann. Sf Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 201 (1878). 



Allied to P. gamma of Europe, but the 7 more elongated ; three other silvery markings, 

 somewhat resembling the letters I, J, K, but with the / sloping backwards, across the costal 

 and discoidal areas ; the margins of the central band rather silvery than golden ; outer border 



