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HEEMINIIDJE. 
BLEPTINA, Guen. 
Bleptina petrina. (Plate LVI. fig. 13.) 
Sandy whitish, speckled with brown : primaries with three suhconical costal spots and a 
very irregular external border dark brown ; an ill-defined central brownish line : secondaries 
with an irregular central belt, a broad external border with zigzag inner edge, and with a zigzag 
blaekish line close to it, reddish brown ; all the wings with a marginal series of black dots : 
head, thorax, and terminal half of abdomen greyish. Wings below sordid white, irrorated with 
grey ; a spot on the costa beyond the middle and three dots towards apex slightly yellowish ; 
a diffused dusky discal belt ; a dusky discocellular spot : secondaries with two parallel diffused 
discal dusky lines and a discocellular spot ; all the wings with dusky marginal dots : body 
sordid whitish. Expanse of wings 1 inch 1 line. 
Yokohama {Jonas). 
Bleptina lignea. (Plate LVI. fig. 14.) 
Pale reddish brown : wings with the centre of the disk (between the outer line and the 
external border) whitish ; two irregularly dentate-sinuate blackish lines limiting the central 
belt, whieh is also traversed externally by a blackish streak nearly parallel to the outer line ; 
diseocellulars black ; a slender black marginal line ; outer border irregularly sinuated and 
with a dusky margin internally : primaries with a blackish subapical costal spot enclosing a 
whitish dot upon the margin : abdomen crossed by a nearly central dusky belt. Under surface 
sericeous ; wings grey, with blackish diseocellulars. Expanse of wings 1 inch 1 line. 
Yokohama {Jonas). 
Bleptina morosa. (Plate LVI. fig. 15.) 
Primaries above fuliginous brown, paler upon the basicostal area ; three blackish spots 
arranged in a triangular form at the base, an ill-defined blackish line across the basal area ; 
diseocellulars blackish j a very irregular pale-bordered blackish central line ; a very irregular 
discal whitish line ; a marginal series of pale-edged blackish spots : secondaries much paler, with 
a slender dusky marginal line ; fringe whitish, traversed by a central dusky line : body fuliginous 
brown, rather paler than the primaries. Wings below pale greyish brown, more or less irro- 
rated with white, with a marginal series of white-edged black spots ; fringe whitish, traversed 
by a grey line : primaries with two white costal dashes beyond the middle : secondaries with a 
black discocellular spot and two whitish-bordered dusky discal lines. Expanse of wings 
I inch. 
Yokohama {Jonas). 
