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BOAEMIID^.— GEOMETEID^. 
wings below white ; a broad discal blackish belt, with straight internal edge, produced ex- 
ternally in one or two places so as to touch the margin ; discocellular spots black ; primaries 
with greyish basal area. Expanse of wings 1 inch 8 lines. 
Yokohama {Jonas). 
Hypochroma superans. (Plate XLIX. fig. 12.) 
Hypochroma superans, Butler, Ann. ^ Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 398 (1878). 
Testaceous, the wings, excepting at the base, greenish sericeous crossed by multitudi- 
nous short grey lines; black discocellular lines; an interrupted irregular white lunulated 
discal stripe, indistinct in secondaries ; a submarginal series of white dots ; a marginal series 
of black spots ; fringe rather long, ashy grey : primaries with black-spotted costa ; apex of 
palpi and frons black. Under surface of the wings white, with the base yellow; large black 
discocellular patches ; a blackish spot in each discoidal cell, and below it a well-marked grey 
longitudinal dash ; a broad blackish discal belt crossed by an interrupted white line ; a series 
of black marginal spots : primaries with black-spotted costa ; external area streaked with 
blackish : body ochraceous, legs above blackish. Expanse of wings 2 inches 6 lines. 
Yokohama {Jonas). 
ELPHOS, Gum. 
Elphos latiferaria. (Plate XLIX. fig. 11.) 
Pachyodes ? latiferaria, Wallcer, Cat. Lep. Het. xxi. p. 445 (1860). 
Whity brown, clouded and streaked with burnt sienna, densely and transversely striated 
with dark brown : primaries crossed beyond the cell by a broad angulated oblique white belt 
(from costa to outer margin), striated with dark brown and bordered with blackish; wing 
crossed by four brown stripes, the first basal, the second crossing the cell, interrupted, the 
third at the end of the cell, the fourth blackish, abbreviated, crossing the inferior portion of 
the disk ; a blackish transverse subapical stripe : secondaries with pale external border, bounded 
internally by a brown stripe, a second interrupted stripe across the middle of the wing : under 
surface gi’eyer, the markings less strongly defined. Expanse of wings 2 inches 1 line. 
North China {Fortune). 
The measurement as given by Mr. Walker must be a misprint. 
GEOMETEID^. 
JODIS, H'dbn. 
Jodis claripennis. (Plate XLIX. fig. 10.) 
Jodis claripennis, Butler, Ann. ^ Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 399 (1878). 
Aspect of J. putataria, but of twice the size ; chalky white, with a faint greenish tint 
