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and nearly connected on the bind border. Abdomen with a black 

 stripe, and with two rows of transverse black spots. Wings with 

 transverse white streaks on the fringe. Fore wings with two costal 

 oblique approximate black streaks before the middle ; these are near 

 the fore ends of two more concise discal oblique black streaks ; two 

 indistinct costal oblique black streaks beyond the middle, and a 

 longer more distinct and more exterior black streak, which descends 

 from the costa and is irregularly curved to the tip ; a row of diffuse 

 black spots extending from three-fourths of the length of the interior 

 border to the middle of the exterior border. Hind wings dark 

 brown, cinereous along the interior border, and with a cinereous 

 patch near the interior angle. Length of the body 24 lines ; of the 

 wings 56 lines. 



Allied to A. pinastri, but very much larger. 



a, b. Shanghai. From the Entomological Society's collection. 



Genus EILEMA. 

 Eilema, Clms. Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. iv. 188. 



ElLEMA HaRBJSII. 



Harrisii, Clms. Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. iv. 188 — coniferarum, 

 Harris , Amer. Journ. Sci. xxxvi. 296, 



Genus BASJANA. 



Basiana submaruinalis. 



Foem. Obscure cinereo-cervina ; alee anticce lineis duabus exteri- 

 oribus nigricantibus diffusis denticutatis, punctis submargin- 

 alibus nigris ; anticaz falcatce, anaulo basali nigro parvo 

 indeterminato ; poslicce apud marginem exteriorem anticum 

 subochracecB. 



Female. Dull cinereous fawn-colour, brighter fawn-colour 

 beneath. Proboscis very short and slender. Palpi porrect, not 

 extending beyond the head ; third joint almost obsolete. Antennae 

 minutely setulose. Wings with two blackish diffuse exterior denti- 

 culated lines irregularly parallel to the exterior border ; a submar- 

 ginal line of black points. Fore wings falcate, with an incomplete 

 minute black ringlet near the base. Hind wings somewhat ochra- 

 ceous about the fore part oi the exterior border ; second and third 



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