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and a short oblique apical line black ; fringe intersected by a slightly darker line : secondaries 
shining sordid white, with a broad pale brown external border ; fringe white ; thorax greyish 
brown, antennae ferruginous ; abdomen paler, whitish at the base and with a black dorsal tuft : 
primaries below pale shining brown, becoming whitish towards the inner margin ; costa 
beyond the cell dotted with black and whitish ; secondaries silvery white, with a whity- brown 
costal spot and a discal stripe of the same colour ; pectus creamy white, changing in front to 
smoky brown; venter testaceous. Expanse of wings 1 inch 7 lines. 
Yokohama {Jonas ) . 
LITHOPHANE, Hubner. 
Lithophane saga. (Plate XLV. fig. 9.) 
I^Tthophane saga, Butler, Ann. ^ Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 198 (1878). 
Primaries grey, with numerous black and brown dashes, four in the centre of the costa 
oblique, two near external angle also oblique, but slanting upwards, the remainder longitu- 
dinal ; a dusky oblique streak from the outer margin near the apex to the external third of 
the inner margin ; reniform spot barely jDerceptible ; an acutely undulated oblique discal line, 
arched towards the costa, the external undulations partly filled in by black spots : secondaries 
Avith the basal half sordid white, crossed by brown veins ; external half occupied by a very 
broad smoky -brown border, upon which the veins look black; fringe sordid white: head grey, 
Avith black spots behind the eyes; collar broAvn, Avith a central transverse black-edged grey 
belt ; thorax grey, with a brown streak on each side ; abdomen whity brown, Avith dark 
dorsal tufts. Primaries below' smoky brown, the basal area and apical border pale ; secondaries 
white, the costal area and outer margin sordid ; a broad brown external band, a black spot 
at the end of the cell, and a discal series of black dots on the veins ; pectus pale greyisli ; 
venter sordid white. Expanse of wings 2 inches 4 lines. 
Yokohama {Jonas). 
CUCULLIA, Ochs. 
Cucullia fraterna. (Plate XLV. fig. 10.) 
CucuUia fraterua, Butler, Ann. ^ Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, a'oI. i. p. 198 (1878). 
Nearly allied to C. lucifuga, but the primaries duller, with the spot in the cell black, 
compressed and elongated ; secondaries pure white (with the veins and outer border brown, 
and the costal area brownish, as in C. lucifuga) . Expanse of wings 2 inches 1 line. 
Hakodate {Whitely). 
