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MICEONIID^. 
MICRONIID^. 
EEOSIA, Guenee. 
Erosia rapha. (Plate LI. fig. 5.) 
Erosia rapha, Butler, Ann. ^ Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 403 (1878). 
Snow-white ; wings crossed near the base by a semicircular series of dark brown dots : 
primaries with a very irregular red- brown discal band, margined and intersected by blackish 
lines and bounded externally by large subconfluent black spots ; two subapical black dots con- 
nected with the apex by a black line ; a sigmoidal pale-brown marking near the outer margin; 
base of costa blackish : secondaries with the external area excepting at apex broadly red- 
brown, interrupted by one or two small white spots, and internally by an angulated white- 
edged brown discal line ; margin from the superior caudal process downwards dark brown ; a 
black dot below the inferior process : body spotted with blackish. Under surface white ; basal 
area sordid ; external area, especially of primaries, varied with smoky brown. Expanse 
of wings II lines. 
Hakodate {Whitely). 
Erosia azela. (Plate LI. fig. 6.) 
Erosia azela, Butler, Ann. ^ Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 403 (1878). 
Primaries above with the basal two thirds, excepting a creamy patch at centre of inner 
margin, chocolate-brown, crossed by two parallel tawny transverse lines ; extei’nal area silvery 
white, brown-speckled internally, and interrupted by a marginal series of triangular brown 
spots : secondaries with the basal half cream-coloured, bounded by a brown discal belt ; 
external area silvery white ; marginal spots as in primaries, but smaller ; fringe spotted with 
brown : head and thorax blackish ; shoulders plumbaginous ; abdomen cream-coloured. 
Under surface altogether paler, but very similar in character to the upper surface. Expanse 
of wings 11 lines. 
Yokohama {Jonas). 
Erosia moza. (Plate LI. fig. 7.) 
Erosia moza, Butler, Ann. ^ Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 402 (1878). 
Shining greyish brown, reticulated with slaty grey ; fringe dark brown : primaries 
crossed near the base by an arched dark brown line; an oblique abbreviated dark brown line 
from the costa beyond the middle ; a dark bronm quadrate spot bounded externally by a black 
P -shaped marking on the inner margin, and a reddish-brown streak spotted with black near 
the outer margin : secondaries crossed near the base by a black line ; a black angulated and 
sinuated discal line, edged externally with white, and partly bounded internally by a tawny 
