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Show 1889.] LEPIDOPTERA O F JAPAN A N D COREA. 499 Hapalia preecox, Hiibn. Verz. Schmett. 220. 2204 ; Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. x. p. 358. Agrotis preecox, Treit. Schmett. v. 2. 60; Guen. Noct. i. p. 296. Eight specimens, coll. Pryer, showing the usual variation in colour. Oiwake, Yokohama, Yesso (Pryer) ; Europe. 116. AGROTIS DEPRAVATA. Agrotis depravata, Butl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) iv. p. 360 (1879). A fine series, coll. Prver. I took a 2 specimen at Nagasaki in May, and a o* at Gensan in July 18S6. My native collector obtained a 3 example at Gensan in August 1887. Tokio (Fenton) ; Yokohama (Pryer) ; Gensan, Nagasaki (Leech). 117. AGROTIS TOKIONIS. Agrotis tokionis, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 178. Agrotis fucosa, Butl. 1. c. p. 179. I took two examples at Oiwake in October. This species is larger than A. corticea, but is certainly more nearly related to it than to A. saucia, A. suffusa, or A. segetum. Mr. Pryer appears to have confounded A. tokionis with A. segetum, var. ingrata, Butl., as there was a fine series of specimens in his collection under the latter name. Tokio (Fenton) ; Yokohama (Pryer and Manley) ; Oiwake, Yahyuskiro (Pryer). 118. AGROTTS SUFFUSA. Noctua suffusa, Hiibn. Noct. fig. 134. Agrotis suffusa, Treit. Schmett. v. I. 152; Guen. Noct. i. p. 268. I took specimens of this species at Gensan only, but there was a fine series in Mr. Pryer's collection. Some variation is exhibited, though not to the same extent as is often seen in a good series of A. suffusa from Europe. Yokohama (Pryer); Gensan (Leech) ; Tokio, Kiukiang (Pratt); Australia, Africa, Europe. 119. AGROTIS SEGETUM. Noctua segetum, Schifferm. Wien. Verz. p. 81, pi. i. figs. 3, a, b; Hubn. Noct. fig. 147. Noctua segetis, Hiibn. Noct. fig. 146. Noctua fucosa, Esp. Schmett. iii. pi. 64. fig. 4. Agrotis segetum, Treit. Schmett. v. 1. 155 ; Guen. Noct. i. p. 274. Agrotis aversa, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. ii. p. 345. |