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HERMINIID^. 
the wiugs. Under surface pale smoky brown : wings with two ill-defined darker discal lines ; 
primaries with dusky, and secondaries with black discocellular spot. Expanse of wings 1 inch 
4 lines. 
Yokohama {Jonas). 
LOCASTEA, Walker. 
Locastra margarita. (Plate EVIL fig. 4.) 
Opaline white : wings with a broad bronze-brown outer border, sinuated internally and 
only separated by a line of the ground-colour from an interrupted lunulate black line ; fringe 
spotted with brown : primaries -with a broad subbasal bronze-brown belt and a black spot 
close to it upon the inner margin; a subquadrate bronze-brown patch upon the costal margin ; 
head, collar, and thorax spotted with brown ; abdomen with two series of black spots ; anus 
and palpi reddish, tibiae banded with brown ; tarsi black, banded with white : wings below 
with paler markings than above, otherwise similar. Expanse of wings 1 inch 3 lines. 
Yokohama {Jonas). 
EGNASIA, Walker. 
Egnasia simplex. (Plate LVII. fig. 5.) 
Bronzy olive-brown : wings with white discoidal spots ; indications of two irregular white 
discal lines, the inner one beginning upon the costa of primaries with a single white spot, 
the outer one near the apex of primaries with three white spots ; fringe white-spotted : under 
surface the same as above. Expanse of wings 1 inch 6 lines. 
Yokohama {Jonas). 
Egnasia porphyrea. (Plate LVII. fig. 6.) 
Grey, shot with lilacine : primaries with wdiitish costal border ; the central belt limited 
by irregular and internally diffused blackish bands shot with bronze, the outer band considerably 
wider than the inner ; a broad transverse subapical bronze-brown belt; a small black-edged 
oval ochraceous spot in the cell, and a whitish-edged blackish spot at the end of the cell : 
secondaries crossed by two, internally diffused, externally whitish-edged, zigzag blackish discal 
bands ; abdomen with whitish margins to the segments : under surface whity brown, with the 
markings ill-defined, dusky ; white markings nearly as above ; discocellulars black, with white 
borders. Expanse of wings 1 inch 3 lines. 
Yokohama {Jonas). 
Egnasia polyhapta. (Plate LVII. fig. 7.) 
Basal third of primaries occupied by an oblong patch, the infero-anterior angle of which 
rests upon the median vein, its superior half rosy brown, its inferior half pale flesh-colour ; 
