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Show 526 MR. J. H. LEECH ON THE [Nov. 19, 237. ERASTRIA FENTONI. Erastria fentoni, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 190. A fine series, coll. Pryer. I took a few specimens at Gensan in July. Tokio (Fenton); Oiwake, Yokohama (Pryer) ; Gensan (Leech). 238. ERASTRIA FASCIANA. Phal.-Tortrix fasciana, Linn. Faun. Suec. p. 342 (1761) ; Syst. Nat. xii. p. 375. Noctua fuscula, Borkh. Eur. Schmett. iv. p. 192; Hiibn. Noct. pi. 60. fig. 297. Noctua polygramma, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 146. fig. 7. Erastria fuscula, Treit. Schmett. v. 3. p. 257 ; Guen. Noct. ii. pi. 229. ' Bryophila guenei, Fallon, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1864, p. 27, pi. i. fig. 3. Erastria stygia, Butl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) i. p. 199 (187*) ; III. Typ. Lep. Het. iii. pi. xlvi. fig. 2 (1879). Several specimens, coll. Pryer. I took examples at Fushiki and Gensan in June and July, and my native collector at Ningpo in July. Varies in colour from grey-brown to fuscous brown, and the white markings are very inconstant in character; the white fascia on outer margin is more particularly subject to considerable modification. In some examples this is only represented by a short thin white edging to the second discal transverse line. Yokohama (Jonas and Pryer) ; Oiwake (Pryer) ; Fushiki, Gensan (Leech) ; Europe. 239. ERASTRIA OLIVACEA, sp. n. (Plate LIII. fig. 1.) Primaries olive-grey, basal line blackish, angulated just below costa ; outer line curved and angulated, blackish, commencing in a white spot on costa ; submarginal line white, with an interrupted edging of the ground-colour ; external margin white, black at apex ; reniform white, indistinctly outlined, with a median oiive-grey suffusion ; orbicular and a round spot below separated by the median nerve, whitish, the centre of each more or less filled up with olive-grey; fringes white, spotted with olive-grey : secondaries fuscous grey. Under surface of primaries fuscous, paler from middle of costa to apex ; a small patch of black scales on costa and beyond a short pale oblique streak edged internally with blackish ; fringes whitish, intersected |by an interrupted blackish line and tipped with black: secondaries whitish, thickly sprinkled with brownish scales along costa and on outer margin, central spot aud line blackish. Expanse, o* 25 millim., $ 21 millim. Allied to E. fasciana. Several specimens, coll. Pryer. I took examples at Gensan in July 1886. Oiwake (Pryer); Gensan (Leech) ; Chang Yang (Pratt). |
