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Show 1888.] LEPIDOPTERA OF JAPAN AND COREA. 609 another blackish line elbowed in the middle ; submarginal line blackish and much indented. Secondaries fuscous-grey. Head chocolate ; thorax and abdomen dark brown ; tegulas brown, tipped with white. Under surface-primaries chocolate ; secondaries whitish with a black discal spot and thickly sprinkled with blackish scales. Expanse 28 millim. Allied to N. gigas, Butl., but may at once be distinguished therefrom by the different character of marking. One specimen, which I took in Satsuma in May. 139. NOLA LEODURA. Nolaleodura, Staud., Rom. M e m . Lep.iii.p. 178, pl.x. fig.2(1887). Five specimens in Pryer's collection agreeing exactly with Staudinger's figure of this species. Oiwake (Pryer); Amur. 140. NOLA MANDSCHURIANA. Erastria mandschuriana, Oberth. Etud. d'Entom. v. p. 83, pl. ii. fig. 9 (1880). Two specimens, coll. Pryer. These are identical with an example in the National Collection at South Kensington, labelled Mimcerastria mandschuriana. Japan (Pryer); isle of Askold. 141. HETEROGENEA UNCULA. Heterogenea uncula, Staud., Rom. M<sm. Le'p. iii. p. 197, pl. xi. fig. 9 (1887). Five examples, coll. Pryer (nos. 66, 67). Yokohama, Oiwake, Yesso (Pryer); Amur. 142. HETEROGENEA FULGENS, sp. n. (Plate XXX. fig. 18.) 8 . Densely scaled, giving the insect a very silky appearance. Pale straw-colour, whitish towards costa, with some irregular pale sienna-coloured markings on disk, and a row of minute black dots on outer margin of primaries; fringes of all the wings shining. Under surface-primaries pale orange, narrowly bordered with silvery white ; central area of secondaries whitish, with a greenish reflection ; margins and fringes silvery white. Expanse, 8 20 millim., $ 22 millim. Two specimens ( $ ) taken by myself at Gensan in July, and a 8 taken by m y native collector at Ningpo also in July. Gensan (Leech) ; Ningpo. 143. PHRIXOLEPIA SERICEA. Phrixolepia sericea, Butl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) xx. p. 476 (1877); 111. Typ. Lep. Het. pt. iii. p. 11, pl. xliii. fig. 6 (1879). Limacodes castaneus, Oberth. Etud. d'Entom. v. p. 41, pl. i. fig. 11 (1880). One example at Nagasaki in June. Several specimens, coll. Pryer. |