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HTPENID^. — HEEMINIID^. 
bounded externally by an oblique silvery-white dash ; a broad diffused transverse bronze- 
brown discal beltj crossed by blackish hastate dashes ; fringe with a slender white basal line ; 
secondaries pale greyish brown : thorax silvery grey ; abdomen pale brown : under surface 
pale sericeous brown. Expanse of wings 11 lines. 
Yokohama {Jonas). 
This species much resembles Britha biguttata from Australia. 
Hormisa cramboides. (Plate LVI. fig. 6.) 
Pale buff : primaries crossed from apex to inner margin by an oblique ill-defined whitish 
stripe, immediately followed by two or three parallel dusky undulated lines, the interval 
between the first line and the whitish stripe also slightly dusky : secondaries greyish : thorax, 
palpi, and pectinations of antennae greyish : primaries below and pectus sordid ; secondaries 
and venter pale buff, almost white. Expanse of wings 1 inch 1 line. 
Yokohama {Jonas). 
IIEHMINIIDJE. 
HERMINIA, Lair. 
Herminia sicca. (Plate LVI. fig. 7.) 
Allied to H. tarsipennalis , but rather paler ; the two lines nearest to the base of primaries 
almost straight instead of irregular ; the outermost line sharply defined and with a white 
external border : secondaries sordid white, with the submarginal angulated dusky line edged 
externally with pure white. Wings below white, slightly sordid, crossed by two grey discal 
lines, and with blackish discocellular dots. Expanse of wings 1 inch 4 lines. 
Yokohama {Jonas) . 
Herminia fumosa. (Plate LVI. fig. 8.) 
Smoky brown, with a scarcely perceptible lilacine shot ; outer margin of wings black, 
followed upon the fringe by a white line, beyond which is a slender line paler than the ground- 
colour : primaries crossed by three dark-brown lines, the central one more or less angulated, 
the two others slightly irregular, the outermost one with a whitish external margin ; disco- 
cellulars blackish ; secondaries with a blackish line beyond the cell and with the usual whitish- 
bordered externo-discal blackish line running to anal angle : inner surfaces of the antennae 
and palpi sordid white. Wings below more uniform in colour, primaries crossed by one central 
dusky line ; a subapical costal white spot j margin as above : secondaries nearly as above. 
Expanse of wings 1 inch 5 lines. 
Yokohama {Jonas) . 
