SEUDYRA. — YITHOEA. 3 



AGARISTIDiE. 

 SEUDYRA, Stretch. 

 Seudyra noctuina. (Plate XXII. fig. 1.) 

 Seudyra noctuina, Butler, Eat. Month. Mag. vol. xiv. p. 206 (1878). 



Primaries above blackish, spotted with black ; veins pale ; an angular creamy white 

 abbreviated belt beyond the cell ; outer border rosy, with submarginal and marginal ferru- 

 ginous lines ; fringe white, intersected by a blackish line : secondaries ochreous, with a 

 central black spot and a submarginal black band, margin and fringe nearly as in primaries : 

 body above greyish ; abdomen banded with black, ochreous at the sides, greyish below : wings 

 below ochreous, with reddish outer borders; primaries with three and secondaries with two 

 central black spots. Expanse of wings 1 inch 10 lines. 



Hakodate (WMtely). 



MIMEUSEMIA, Butler. 

 Mimeusemia persimilis. (Plate XXII. fig. 2.) 

 Mimeusemia persimilis, Butler, Ann. 6f Mag. Nat. Eist. ser. 4, vol. xv. p. 397 (1875). 



Primaries black, crossed by two or three plumbaginous lines ; a spot near the base, two 

 across the centre of the wing and two before apex, sulphur-yellow ; secondaries deep orange, 

 with broad costal and external black-brown borders, a large black spot across the end of the 

 cell, and a second touching the outer border ; thorax black, spotted with pale sulphur-yellow ; 

 abdomen orange, banded with black ; primaries below with the internal area greyish ; 

 secondaries with the subcostal area cream-coloured ; otherwise as above. Body below orange, 

 varied with black. Expanse of wings 2 inches 3 lines. 



Hakodate" {WMtely). 



This species nearly resembles Eusemia villicoides (Chelonomorpha japana of Mot- 

 schulsky). 



VITHORA, Moore. 

 Yithora agrionides. (Plate XXII. fig. 3.) 

 Yithora agrionides, Butler, Ann. Sf Mag. Nat. Eist. ser. 4, vol. xv. p. 137 (1875). 



Wings subhyaline white, the borders, veins, and a zigzag discal belt black ; thorax dark 

 brown, laterally streaked in front with yellow ; collar yellow ; abdomen ochre-yellow, with a 

 dorsal series of dark brown spots and a lateral series of smaller spots, below with two parallel 

 series of large spots. Expanse of wings 2 inches 5-6 lines. 



Hakodate* ( WMtely) ; Yokohama [Jonas) . 



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