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Show 1888.] LEPIDOPTERA OF JAPAN AND COREA. 601 97. GHORIA COLLITOIDES. Ghoria collitoides, Butl. Cist. Ent. vol. iii. p. 115. A series in coll. Pryer. This insect is near to Lithosia giganlea, Oberth., from Isle of Askold, but it has a black head, and the costal streak is not continued to apex of primaries. Nikko, Oiwake (Pryer). 98. STIGMATOPHORA FLAVA. Setinajiava, Brem. & Grey, Schmett. Nord. China's, p. 14 (1853); Lep. Ost-Sib. pl. viii. fig. 6. Setina ochracea, Lederer, Verh. zool.-bot. Ver. Wien, 1855, p. 105, t. i. fig. 4 (Sibir.). Setina sinensis, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. ii. p. 520. I took this species in two localities in Japan, and there wer several specimens in Pryer's collection. Hakodate, Sakata, Gensan (Leech) ; Ningpo, N . China, Amur. 99. STIGMATOPHORA MICANS. Setina micans, Brem. & Grey, Schmett. N. China's, p. 9 (1853). I took a good series at Gensan in July, and one at Fusan in June. Corea (Hers); Fusan, Gensan (Leech) ; N. China. 100. MELAN_EMA VENATA. Melancema venata, Butl. A. M. N. H. (4) xx. p. 397 (1877); 111. Typ. Lep. Het. pt. ii. p. 6, pl. xxii. fig. 5 (1878). Appears to be fairly constant in colour and markings. Yokohama (Jones, Pryer, and Manley); Oiwake (Pryer). 101. MlLTOCHRISTA PULCHRA. 2 . Miltochrista pulchra, Butl. A. M . N. H . (4) xx. p. 396 (1877); 111. Typ. Lep. Het. pt. ii. p. 5, pl. xxii. fig. 6. 8 . Miltochrista mactans, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 340 ; 111. Typ. Lep. Het. pt. v. p. 39, pl. Ixxxv. fig. 13 (1881). Butler's M. pulchra and his M. mactans are not two species, but sexes of the same species. In the description of M. pulchra reference is made to four series of black dots; tbe first and third series are said to be well defined and arched, and the fourth composed of small linear dashes. No direct mention, however, is made of the second series; neither is there any indication of four series of black dots iu the figure of this insect. On the other hand, three distinct lines of black spots are found across the discal area of the figure representing M. mactans, and in the description of that insect reference is made to a series of longitudinal streaks exterior to the third line. These streaks of M. mactans and the small linear dashes occupying a similar position in M. pulchra, forming the fourth series of dots in that insect, are simply modifications of a marking which in its entirety is a character sometimes found in one sex and when interrupted or broken up an occasional feature of the |