12 NOTODONTID^. 



BIRETA, Walker. 

 Bireta pallida. (Plate XXV. figs. 10 & 11.) 

 Bireta pallida, Butler, Ann. Sf Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. xx. p. 473 (1877). 



Primaries pale stramineous, with a large pale brownish internal patch, reaching to the 

 first median branch, and a longitudinal streak of the same colour through the end of the cell ; 

 an oblique rounded spot of the ground-colour on the lower discocellular ; an oblique sinuated 

 postmedian line, followed below the third median branch by an oblique line ; an oblique apical 

 dash ; a submarginal series of minute brown dots : secondaries whitish, clouded with pale 

 brown : under surface creamy white, the primaries clouded with brown. Expanse of wings, 

 $ 1 inch 11 lines, $ 2 inches. 



Yokohama {Jonas and Pryer). 



DICRANURA, Boisduval 

 Dicranura felina. (Plate XXIV. fig. 3.) 

 Dicranura felina, Butler, Ann. 6f Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. xx. p. 474 (1877). 



Wings semihyaline white, with black marginal spots and dark brown veins ; primaries 

 crossed by blackish lines and spots, somewhat as in D. vinula and D. erminia ; the marginal 

 spots elongated into abbreviated longitudinal lines : secondaries with dusky discocellulars : thorax 

 spotted with black ; abdomen banded with blackish. Expanse of wings, 6 2 inches 5 lines, 

 ? 2 inches 8 lines. 



Yokohama {Jonas). 



Differs from both the European species in the more deeply waved discal lines, and from 

 D. vinula in its white secondaries. 



PERIDEA, Stephens. 



Peridea gigantea. (Plate XXIV. fig. 6.) 



Peridea gigantea, Butler, Ann. <Sf Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. xx. p. 474 (1877). 



Wings above greyish brown ; primaries with a broad, nearly central, pale patch from the 

 costa to the median vein, continued as an ill-defined streak below the first median branch, and 

 terminating in a <-shaped marking ; orbicular and reniform spots represented by 8-shaped 

 markings and enclosed in the pale patch ; basal area to the submedian vein crossed by a testaceous 

 streak, intersected and margined by dusky zigzag lines ; a whitish costal spot beyond the cell, 

 followed by whitish dots on each of the nervures ; two or three subapical whitish lunules : secon- 

 daries whitish, a broad dusky discal band and a central line parallel to it ; apex and one or 

 two subapical spots whitish : tegulse bordered with black ; a black annulus on metathorax ; 

 abdomen brown. Below sandy whitish ; secondaries with two indistinct parallel central greyish 

 lines. Expanse of wings 2 inches 7 lines. 



Yokohama {Jonas). 



