14 LIMACODIDJE.— DKEPANULUm 



LIMACODIim 



MONEMA, Walker. 



Monema flavescens. (Plate XXV. fig. 5.) 

 Monema flavescens, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. v. p. 1112. n. 1 (1855). 



Yellow; primaries crossed by two slender convergent brown lines ; external half from the 

 inner line bright red-brown ; secondaries somewhat testaceous ; palpi dark brown. Expanse 

 of wings 1 inch 5 lines. 



North China {Cuming) ; Yokohama {Jonas). 



The type is so much faded that its true coloration is scarcely distinguishable. 



DREPANULIILE. 



OlETA, Walker. 



Oreta turpis. (Plate XXV. fig. 8.) 

 Oreta turpis, Butler, Ann. Sf Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. xx. p. 477 (1877). 



Pale shining brown, external area sprinkled with black atoms ; fringe dark chocolate-brown : 

 primaries crossed obliquely by two greyish lines, blackish towards apex ; a short apical 

 plumbaginous streak ; the costa at apex and the fringe in the subapical sinus black ; secondaries 

 with the costal area pale, apical area rather dark : thorax reddish brown ; abdomen pale brown, 

 anal tuft yellowish. Under surface testaceous, speckled here and there with grey ; fringe 

 brown. Expanse of wings 1 inch 4 lines. 



Yokohama {Jonas). 



Oreta calida. (Plate XXV. fig. 6.) 

 Oreta calida, Butler, Ann. Sf Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. xx. p. 477 (1877). 



Laky brown, mottled with black ; wings crossed by two central blackish lines, the outer 

 one bounded by a yellow line which runs to apex, and is followed by a brown streak ; apex 

 greyish, with black margin ; fringe dark brown ; extremity of the cell more or less dusky : 

 secondaries with dark brown fringe ; female with a discal series of black dots, outer border 

 ferruginous. Under surface bright reddish tawny, spotted with grey, and crossed by a grey 

 discal stripe, which is angulated near the costa of primaries ; legs red. Expanse of wings, 

 3 1 inch 8 lines, ? 2 inches. 



Yokohama {Jonas), Hakodate* {Whitely). 



