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Show 1889.] LEPIDOPTERA OF JAPAN AND COREA. 549 the middle, and a sharp angulation before inner margin ; reniform placed in a dark brown triangle from costa; outer third dark grey, intersected by a brownish wavy submarginal line, bordered internally with pale grey : secondaries pale buff suffused with ashy black ; abdominal margin, central transverse band, and outer border blackish,. a patch of pale buff at outer angle. Under surface pale buff, outer border of primaries black, as also are the central band and a broad streak from its inner extremity to the base; secondaries have narrow, blackish, central and marginal bands. Expanse 68 millim. Allied to C. dula. One specimen taken by myself at Nagahama in July 1886. 347. CATOCALA ACTEEA. Catocala actcea, Feld. Reise Nov. pi. cxii. fig. 22. Several examples, coll. Pryer. Common in mainland of Japan from July to October. Tokio, Nikko, Fushiki, Yokohama (Leech) ; Ichang, Kiukiang. 348. CATOCALA SANCTA. Catocala sancta, Butl. Cist. Ent. iii. p. 134 (1885). Two specimens, coll. Pryer. Yesso (Pryer). 349. CATOCALA DISSIMILIS. Catocala dissimilis, Brem. Bull, de l'Acad. 1861, t. iii. ; Lep. Ost-Sib. t. iv. fig. 15 (1864). Several examples, coll. Pryer. I took specimens commonly at Hakodate in August. Yesso (Pryer) ; Hakodate (Leech) ; E. Siberia, Ichang. 350. CATOCALA NUPTA. Phal.-Noctua nupta, Linn. Syst. Nat. xii. p. 841. Noctua nupta, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 97. fig. 1, 2; Hiibn. Noct. pi. 69. fig. 300. Catocala nupta, Treit. Schmett. v. 337; Guen. Noct. iii. p. 85. One example, coll. Pryer. This species is recorded by Oberthiir from N. China and Isle of Askold, under the name of G. nupta var. obscurata. Yesso (Pryer) ; N. China, Askold ; Europe. 351. CATOCALA DULA. Catocala dula, Brem. Bull, de l'Acad. 1861, t. iii.; Lep. Ost-Sib. t. iv. fig. 14 (1864). Several examples, coll. Pryer. I took a number of specimens of this species at Hakodate in August, and Sendai in September. Yesso, Kurile Islands (Pryer) ; Hakodate, Sendai (Leech) ; E. Siberia. |