LACINIODES. By L. B. Prout. 
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A. albosignata Moore (16 i). This small white species, with its light-drab shadings and numerous irre- albosignaia. 
gular dark lines, is essentially N. Indian, but occurs in Kashmir (6000—8500 feet). The large vein-dots or dashes 
on some of the lines recall some Hydrelia, but a rather characteristic marking is a small patch which re¬ 
mains white about the middle of the forewing. Hindwing irregularly crenate. Antenna of the <$ almost simple. 
A. undulata Wileman (= geminimaculata Wehrli) (14 e). This pretty and very distinct species was undulala. 
described from Formosa, but as a $ has been taken by Hone at Shanghai and a $ at Kiangsi it almost 
reaches the confines of the Palaearctic Region. The very weakly marked proximal area, contrasting, on the 
forewing, with the strong, angular outer band and the distal-costal markings, is quite characteristic. Under¬ 
side similar, with the subsidiary markings still fainter or obsolete. Ciliation of the <$ antenna very short. 
A. defectata Christ. (16 i). As our figure in Vol. 4 (pi. 10 h) was from a poor specimen, we substitute defectata. 
a more distinctive one. Butler proposed a genus Pseudostegania for this species, while' a note in our Vol. 4 
(p. 273) hints at a possible relationship to Laci?iiodes; but the face and palpus are essentially as in Asthena. 
— chrysidia Btlr., from Japan, is possibly a synonym, as given in Vol. 4, but seems generally distinguishable chrysidia. 
racially by its heavier markings. 
A. straminearia Leech (16 i). Unfortunately no further material is yet accessible to me, but I offer the straminea- 
best figure that can be obtained of the imperfect type. 
A. distinctaria Leech (Vol. 4, pi. 7 g). Perhaps more closely related to the ochrifasciaria group than to distindaria. 
defectata ; compare the note on Agnibesa above. 
69a. Genus: l^aciniodes Warr. 
Face less smooth than in Asthena , usually with a small projecting tuft below. Palpus less short than 
in Asthena , longer-scaled below. Venation about as in several Asthena, the discocellulars perhaps more strongly 
oblique behind than is usual in that genus. Genotype: plurilinearia Moore. A tolerably homogeneous group, 
belonging almost entirely to N. India, E. Asia and Japan. 
L. plurilinearia Moore (Vol. 4, pi. 10 i). The name-typical form, described from Darjiling, is fairly piurilinea- 
common from Sikkim to Upper Burma and I have not yet been able to separate from it the few which I 
have seen from the N. W. Himalayas. The specimen figured is a <$ in my collection from the Khasis and 
is only slightly aberrant in that the postmedian of the fore wing is a trifle more bluntly angled than usual. The 
termen of the hindwing is perhaps slightly more sinuous than in unistirpis. Closely similar forms, together 
with others, occur in W. China, where the group is abundant and calls for intensive study. — unistirpis Btlr. (16 i), unistirpis. 
besides the slight difference in shape, shows on the whole a broader dark subterminal shade and broader longi¬ 
tudinal streak from postmedian outward and the postmedian on both wings is perhaps in general slightly more 
sinuous in its anterior part. Japan (loc. typ.), Corea and perhaps as far westward as Ichang. — There is also 
a race or very close relative on Formosa, at present undescribed. 
L. denigrata Warr. Much less variegated than plurilinearia, lacking the dark subterminal cloudings; denigrata. 
the dark costal shading at the base of the forewing and across the thorax also wanting or reduced to a 
minimum. Postmedian line more sinuous, on both wings generally showing a very noticeable curve near the 
costal. In the name-typical form, from the Khasis, perhaps not occurring in the Palaearctic Region, the apical 
streak is also wanting or exceedingly faint, the antemedian line less acutely angled than in plurilinearia, 
and the absence of the longitudinal outer streak leaves the moniliform whitish band as clean between the 3rd 
radial and 1st median as in the rest of its course. — abiens subsj). nov. (16 i). Paler, though not quite so uni- aliens. 
form, on an average rather larger, the apical dash retained, though slender, the longitudinal streak indicated, 
but weak, generally consisting in a thickening of the dashes which cut up the moniliform whitish band; 
antemedian line in the Mongolian specimens as angular as in plurilinearia. Locally abundant in W. China and 
extending from Chinese Tibet and Yunnan to Kalgan, Mongolia. Type <$ in the British Museum, from Pu- 
tsu-fong. —- ussuriensis subsp. nov. is generally smaller and reverts more nearly to the yellowish tone of d. ussuriensis. 
denigrata but is a little more variegated, conserves in the and sometimes in the $, the apical dash, and 
has the rudiments of the longitudinal streak, about as in abiens ; the antemedian line varies, but is oftenest 
curved, while in denigrata and abiens it is angled. Ussuri, the type in the British Museum, from Russian 
Island, S. Ussuri. A very similar form occurs in Japan, especially at Yokohama. 
L. stenorhabda Wehrli (14e). Distinguishable at once by the straight postmedian line; the pale band stenorlidbda. 
outside it is generally narrowed and has no interruption between the 3rd radial and 1st median; apical dash 
wanting; cell-dots very small. W. China and Chinese Tibet. Occasional aberrations are confusingly similar 
to some abiens except in the straighter postmedian. 
