948 CATALOGUE OF 



a blackish zigzag line, and bordered on the outer side by another 

 line; a broad white submarginal band,, narrower towards the eosta, 

 near which it is almost obsolete ; a double dark brown marginal 

 festoon. Hind wings with a broad white band and an exterior 

 interlined white patch ; marginal festoon like that of the fore wings. 

 Length of the body 12 lines ; of the wings 32 lines. 



a. Ceylon. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



Fam. HYPOPYKIME, C. i. H. xiv. 1316 



Genus SPIRAMIA, C. L. H. xiv. 1318. 



Spiramia pyrula. 



pyrula, Hpf Monatsb. Konyl. Akad. Wiss. Bert. 1857, 422. Peters, 

 Reise Moz. 435, pi. 28, f. 10, 11. 



Mozambique. 



Spiramia Japonica. 



Mas. Nigricante-fusca ; antennce albidce, vix pectinate ; alee 

 fascia obliqua alba alro marginata, fascia marginali glauco- 

 cinerea ; anticee fascia \a fusco bilineata, annulo maximo 

 albo-nigro plagam cervinam strigas lanceolatas emitlentem 

 includente ; posticcs dimidio exteriore fusco dentalo. 



Male. Blackish brown. Palpi obliquely ascending, much 

 longer than the breadth of the head ; third joint linear, rounded at 

 the tip, much more slender than the second and more than half its 

 length. Antennae whitish, hardly pectinated. Wings with a white 

 oblique band, which is bordered with deep black ; marginal band 

 glaucous-cinereous. Fore wings with a very large ringlet, which 

 is bordered with black and with white and contains a fawn-coloured 

 patch, which emits lanceolate streaks ; the first band contains two 

 brown lines, and is brown-speckied exteriorly and forms two broad 

 obtuse subdentate teeth. Hind wings with the outer half brown, 

 acutely and irregularly dentate along the exterior border. Length 

 of the body 10 lines ; of the wings 32 lines. 



a. Japan. From Mr. Fortune's collection. 



