BEIAEDA. 
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Donovan's figure of P. flexuosa (Brit. Ins. xii. p. 53, pi. 412) ; the latter is certainly not the 
Linnean species, but is probably intended to represent the sjiecies subsequently named 
P. pulchrina by Haworth. 
Walker^s P. circumflexa is that of Freyer, and is the P. rjutta of Guenee, of which 
P. virgo, Motsch., is the Japanese representative. 
HOMOPTEEID^. 
BEIAEDA, Walk. 
Briarda decens. (Plate CX. fig. 6.) 
S ? . Briarda decens, Wallcer, Cat. Lep. Het. xiii. p. 1098. u. 1 (1857). 
Primaries above whity brown, crossed by numerous, parallel, dentate-sinuate, grey-brown 
lines ; a broad angular belt of black-brown near the base, its inner edge diffused, its outer 
edge undulated and margined with white ; an ill-defined, irregular, black-edged grey- 
brown band across the middle ; a truncated, subcuneiform, costal, subapical, smoky brown 
patch varied with whitish : secondaries pale sandy brownish, the external two fifths pale 
fuliginous brown, interrupted near the anal angle by two or three zigzag, abbreviated, whitish 
lines extending from the outer margin upwards towards the apex : pectus whity brown ; head 
and collar darker sandy brown ; a squamose blackish line along the posterior margins of the 
tegulse; abdomen with greyish dorsal tufts. Under suface pale yellowish brown or sordid 
testaceous : the secondaries wliitish, with a broad greyish-brown discal belt near outer 
margin : primaries with the apical area clouded with greyish brown ; all the wings with 
slender, dusky, marginal line and blackish dots between the veins : tarsi barred with black. 
Expanse of wings 15 millini. 
North India {James) ; Ceylon [Thwaites). 
Briarda precedens. (Plate CX. fig. 7.) 
5 . Eriarda precedens, WaR-er, Gut. Lep. Het. xiii. p. 1098. n. 2 (1857). 
d" . Briarda antecedens, Waller, I. c. p. 1099. n. 3 (1857). 
Primaries whity brown, crossed by numerous, parallel, zigzag, darker reddish-brown 
lines ; the external area suft'used with brown, darker than the ground-colour, so as to render 
these lines indistinct ; a dark-brown costal patch at base, on wdiich the zigzag lines are black ; 
a broad, oblique, truncated wedge-shaped patch from the costa almost to the first median 
branch, and enclosing two or three minute white spots ; a nearly crescent-shaped subapical 
spot with dentated inner edge, a trisinuated line alone separating it from a small bifid apical 
spot in the female, though in the male these two spots are confluent, and a diffused streak 
forming a kind of continuation to the wedge-shaped patcli, dark brown ; a blackish spot near 
base of inner margin ; a series of black dots attached to pale dots along the outer margin : 
