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Show 506 MR. J. H. LEECH O N T H E [NOV. 19, Yokohama (Pryer) ; Gensan (Nat. Coll.) ; Kiukiang (Pratt); S. Domingo, Honduras, Venezuela. 144. GONITIS COMBINANS. Gonitis combinans, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. xiii. p. 1001. no. 7 (1859). Gonitis albitibia, Walk. I. c. no. 8. Gonitis privata, Walk. C. L. H. Suppl. iii. p. 863 (1865). Gonitis commoda, Butl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) i. p. 203 (1878); 111. Typ. Lep. Het. ii. pi. xxxii. fig. 3 (1878). Several specimens, coll. Pryer. I took the species at Nagasaki in June, and Fushiki in July. An exceedingly variable series, embracing examples of all the above-named forms. Yokohama (Jonas and Pryer) ; Fushiki, Nagasaki (Leech) ; Loochoo (Pryer) ; Tokio, Shanghai, Ceylon. 145. GONITIS PRYERI, sp. n. (Plate LII. fig. 8.) 2. Pale brown ; primaries sparingly sprinkled with darker brown, and traversed by two dark lines, the outer edged externally and the inner internally with paler; a short dark apical streak ; orbicular represented by a minute white dot, reniform ill-defined : secondaries with faint indications of two transverse lines. Under surface pale whitish brown ; primaries with a dark central transverse line and apical streak; secondaries with an indistinct dark central line. Expanse 45 millim. One 2 example, coll. Pryer. There is an example of this species from Dharmsala in the National Museum at South Kensington. 146. GONITIS DISTINCTA, sp. n. (Plate LII. fig. 7.) Primaries bright green, slightly orange along costal margin; discal spot minute, blackish, a pale dark-bordered oblique line traverses the outer third of wing ; submarginal line wavy, slightly darker than ground-colour ; fringes brownish: secondaries bright cupreous brown ; fringes pale grey-brown. Under surface of primaries shining cupreous brown, paler towards inner margin; secondaries pinkish brown, with faint blackish central line and dot. Expanse 43 millim. Several specimens, coll. Pryer. I took one example at Nagahama, and two at Gensan in July. 147. DICHONIA PROTEA. Noctuaprotea, Borkh. iv. p. 386 ; Esp. Schmett. iv. pl.!l50. fig. 6 ; Hiibn. Noct. fig. 406. Dichonia protea, Hiibn. Verz. Schmett. p. 217. n. 2173. Hadena protea, Treit. Schmett. v. 1. p. 362; Guen. Noct. ii. p. 89. |
