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wing more coppery. This species, which takes the place of the European livida in Japan and China, 
is also recorded from the Khasia Hills, Assam, N. Indja. 
A. cupreipennis Moore (14 k). Forewing uniform fuscous brown without markings; fringe with a cuprei- 
slight whitish line at base; hindwing cupreous red, the costal area reddish brown; fringe as in forewings, pennis. 
Sikkim, N. India. 
A. atronitens Walk. (15 b). Forewing glossy black dusted sparsely with whitish scales; a minute- atronitens. 
ly waved blackish outer line can be discerned, vertical from subcostal to vein 2, then oblique; hindwing 
whitish suffused with fuscous, especially along termen; a slight dark terminal line; fringe pale brown 
with a pale line at base. Australia, without more definite locality. 
5. Genus: i§ c vtila Walk. 
Tongue well-developed; frons smooth; palpi obliquely upturned, second segment broadly fringed 
in front with hair, the third short and smooth; antennae of ciliated; head and thorax clothed with long 
hair only; abdomen dorsally flattened; no crests. Type B. dejigurata Walk. The genus is confined to 
New Zealand. 
B. defigurata Walk. (=thoracica Walk.) (15 b). Forewing dark fuscous brown with some slight defigurata 
olive grey irroration; inner and outer lines both very indistinct, the inner oblique and waved, the outer 
excurved above and hardly crenulate below, edged externally with paler; no subterminal line visible; stig¬ 
mata not represented; hindwing uniform dark fuscous brown; fringe dark fuscous. N. and S. Island, New 
Zealand. 
B. sericea Btlr. (15 b). Forewing pale fuscous brown, with olive grey dusting and suffusion; inner sericea. 
and outer lines dark, conversely edged with grey, the inner waved and oblique, the outer excurved 
above, dentate lunulate; a dark streak in cell, on which stand the paler stigmata; no subterminal line; 
fringe pale brown; hindwing grey brown; fringe with pale line at base and the tips white. New Zealand, 
N. and S. Islands. 
B. pallida (15 b). Huds. Forewing white with ochreous brown irroration; inner and outer lines pallida. 
brownish, indistinct, the former oblique and waved, the latter excurved above; orbicular and reniform 
stigmata indicated only; subterminal line absent; two wide apart brown striae on costa near base; hind¬ 
wing white tinged with brown, especially along termen from apex to vein 2; fringe white beyond a fine 
brown terminal line. Napier, New Zealand. The position of this little known insect is dubious. 
6. Genus: Mania Tr. 
Tongue developed; frons smooth; palpi obliquely upturned; antennae of $ ciliated; thorax and 
abdomen strongly crested; wings ample, dull coloured; the termen strongly crenulate. Larva stout, na¬ 
ked, with a slight hump on segment 12; the head small; hybernates and feeds up in spring on various 
shrubs and plants; pupa in an earthen cocoon. Type M. maura L. 
M. olivescaria Swinh. (15 c). Forewing olive brown with dark red brown dusting; inner and olives car ia 
outer lines indistinct, double; the inner curved and waved; the outer represented by a series of slight 
black striae with minute black and white streaks between them on the veins; subterminal line indistinct, 
defined by slight dark marks on each side; claviform stigma a black brown patch; orbicular and reniform 
large, indistinctly defined by blackish laterally, constricted at middle, and nearly confluent below, the reni¬ 
form with a blackish mark beyond it; median line interrupted, dentate below; small black terminal dots 
between the veins; hindwing deep fuscous brown, with slight olive brown marks on termen. Assam, N. India. 
7. Genus: Sasieitaga Moore. 
Tongue present; frons smooth, with a tuft of hair; palpi obliquely upturned, smoothly scaled, 
the third segment short; antennae of ciliated; thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled, without distinct 
tufts; forewing narrow, especially in elongate, the costa and termen curved, the apex rounded; hind¬ 
wing ample, broad. Type S. tenebrosa Moore. 
S. olivaria Hmps. (15 c). $ Forewing pale olive grey; costal and terminal areas, except at apex, olivaria. 
suffused with black; an oblique whitish streak, starting from base of costa, along vein 1 to inner line, 
