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Show 1889.] LEPIDOPTERA O F JAPAN A N D COREA. 495 I took two specimens at Gensan in July. Yokohama (Pryer) ; Gensan (Leech); Europe, N. America. 98. NOCTUA TARDA, sp. n. (Plate L. fig. 4.) 2 • Primaries purplish brown; a double black basal line, enclosing a paler space, extends only to the submedian nerve, this is followed by a small quadrate black spot on the costa; double inner line black, wavy, and enclosing a pale space, the lower portion clouded internally with blackish ; outer line black, also double and enclosing a pale space; before the indistinct pale submarginal line is a blackish streak on the costa, clouded internally with blackish; reniform and orbicular outlined in pale ochreous-brown, with pinkish-brown centres bordered with dark brown, the interspace occupied by a blackish quadrate spot: secondaries grey-brown, darker towards the margins, central spot dark grey-brown. Under surface fuscous grey; primaries streaked with purplish brown on the costa and brassy reflections on inner margins; secondaries pinkish brown, paler towards abdominal margin; a broad black central line on all the wings, and a central spot on secondaries. Expanse 40 millim. One example taken by myself at Hakodate, August 1886. 99. NOCTUA BAJA. Noctua baja, Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. p. 175. Teniocampa tabida, Butl. Ann. & Mag Nat. Hist. (5) i. p. 166 (1878); 111. Typ. Lep. Het. ii. pi. xxx. fig. 5. The specimen in the National Museum under the name of T. tabida, Butl., is most certainly a form of Noctua baja. Yokohama (Jonas). 100. NOCTUA AUGUR. Noctua augur, Fabr. Sp. Ins. ii. p. 223 ; Hiibn. Noct. p. 148. Graphiphora augur, Steph. 111. ii. p. 131 ; Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. ii. p. 387. I took a specimen of each sex at Oiwake in October. Oiwake (Leech); Europe ; N. America. 101. NOCTUA DILATATA. Mesogona dilatata, Butl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) iv. p. 364 (1879). Several specimens, coll. Pryer. I have received one Tather dark specimen from Mr. Manley. This species is closely allied to N. umbrosa from Europe. Yokohama (Pryer and Manley). 102. GRAPHIPHORA LEPIDA. Graphiphora lepida, Butl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) iv. p. 362 (1879). Six specimens, coll. Pryer. Yokohama? (Pryer). |
