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LAEENTIID^. 
Eupithecia excisa. (Plate LIII. fig. 11.) 
Eupithecia excisa, Butler, Ann. 4' Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 445 (1878). 
Nearly allied to E. succenturiata of Europe^ but differing in its smaller size, greyer 
primaries, and in the front margin of the central belt of primaries being deeply and angularly 
notched beyond the discoidal cell. Expanse of wings 11 lines. 
Yokohama {Jonas). 
Eupithecia rufescens. (Plate LIII. fig. 12.) 
Eupithecia rufescens, Butler, Ann. 4 Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 445 (1878). 
Apparently allied to E. satijrata of Europe, but much larger and with considerably 
longer palpi ; an oblique subbasal belt and the external area of the primaries laky brown ; a 
black marginal line enclosed in and interrupted upon the veins by a white border. Expanse 
of wings 11 lines. 
Yokohama [Jonas). 
Eupithecia proterva. (Plate LIV. fig. 1.) 
Eupithecia proterva, Butler, Ann. 4 Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 445 (1878). 
Allied to E. innotata, larger ; the primaries still more produced, pale smoky grey, with 
the base, a subbasal band, an oblique whitish-edged central belt (angular, excised above the 
median vein), and the external area blackish; a crinkled whitish submarginal line; disco- 
cellidars black : secondaries covered with parallel dusky lines, which become black upon the 
veins Wings below grey ; the discocellulars, two discal series of dots, and a marginal series 
black. Expanse of wings 1 inch. 
Yokohama [Jonas). 
Eupithecia caliginea. (Plate LIV. fig. 2.) 
Eupithecia caliginea, Butler, Ann. 4 Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 445 (1878). 
Near to E. pygmceata, but the ground-colour of the wings black instead of sooty grey ; 
the crinkled lines across the primaries formed of white scales. Expanse of wings 10 lines. 
Yokohama [Jonas). 
COLLIX, Guen. 
CoUix vashti. (Plate LIV. fig. 3.) 
Collix vashti, Butler, Ann. 4 Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 445 (1878). 
Dark fuliginous brown ; the wings crossed by from eighteen to twenty parallel undulated 
blackish or black lines, more or less dotted with white upon the nervures ; submarginal line 
