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LAEENTIID^. 
marginal clots : secondaries with whitish costal area ; a submarginal pale grey line. Under 
surface sericeous grey. Expanse of wings 1 inch 2 lines. 
Yokohama (Jonas). 
LYGEANOA, Butler. 
Lygranoa fusca. (Plate LIV. fig. 7.) 
Lygranoa fusca, Butler, Ann. 4" Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 447 (1878). 
Pale brown, wings with slender blackish marginal line, follow’cd by a yellowish line at 
the base of the fringe : primaries with dusky base ; an abbreviated black costal dash across 
the end of the cell, and a second halfw'ay between the cell and apex ; two irregular subparallel 
brown lines running from the costal dashes across the wing to inner margin ; a subapical 
black costal spot ; fringe whitish, intersected by a grey stripe. Wings below sericeous whity 
brown ; discocellular dots and a discal series grey : primaries with bronzy borders ; fringe as 
almve, but more decidedly grey-spotted at the ends of the veins. Expanse of wings 11 lines 
to 1 inch 2 lines. 
A'okohama (Jonas) ; Hakodate (Wliitely). 
MELANTIIIA, Dap. 
Melanthia casta. (Plate LIV. fig. 8.) 
ilelanthia casta, Butler, Ann. 4" Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 447 (1878). 
Nearly allied to M. albicUlata, but larger; the markings more sharply defined and 
blackish ; the macular subapical portion of the interrupted discal stripe bifid, not trifid, and 
therefore not united to the large costal patch ; discocellular spots black and w'ell defined. 
Wings below with darker markings, the macular discal stripe well defined in the secondaries 
as well as the primaries. Expanse of wings 1 inch 6 lines. 
Hakodate ( Whitely) . 
MELANIPPE, Dap. 
Melanippe inquinata. (Plate LIV. fig. 9.) 
Melaiiippe inquinata, Butler, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 448 (1878). 
Closely allied to M. proceUata of Europe, but larger ; the w'ings always more or less 
suffused with grey, sometimes only enough to make them look sordid, but sometimes so dark 
as almost to conceal the ordinary markings : primaries with the basal dark patch broader, 
and the dark outer border of twice the width. Exj^anse of wings 1 inch 7 lines. 
Yokohama (Jonas) ; Hakodate (Whitely). 
