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Show 1888.] LEPIDOPTERA OF JAPAN AND COREA. 611 149. MIRESA INORNATA. 2 • Miresa inornata, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. v. p. 1125 (1855) ; 8, Cist. Ent. vol. iii. p. 120. Heterogenea flavidorsalis, Staud., Rom. Mem. Lep. iii. p. 195, pl. xi. fig. 7 (1887). Heterogenea flavidorsalis, xar.fuscicostalis, Fixsen, op. cit. pl. xv. fig. 10. Two examples, coll. Pryer, and one taken by native collector at Hakodate in June or July. The two in Pryer's collection are labelled " 56. Limaeodesl sp.," as also was another specimen with them, but this last is not of the same species. Pryer says that the larva feeds on pear. Fixsen records variety fuscicostalis from Corea. Yokohama, Yamato (Pryer); Corea, Bengal. 150. MIRESA CONJUNCTA. Limaeodesl conjuncta, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. v. p. 1150 (1885). Heterogenea conjuncta, Walk., Rom. Mem. Lep. iii. p. 338, pl. xv. fig. 9 (1887). Two specimens, Gensan, July. This insect is very closely allied to M. dentatus, Oberth. North China ; Gensan (Leech). 151. ANZABE SINENSIS. Anzabe sinensis, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. v. p. 1093 (1855). One specimen at Gensan in July. Gensan ; Hongkong. 152. SCOPELODES URSINA. Scopelodes ursina, Butl. 111. Typ. Lep. Het. vi. p. 3, pl. ci. figs. 7 & 8 (1886). I took a male example of this species at Tsuruga in July. Darjeeling, Silhet; Tsuruga. 153. SETORA SINENSIS. Tadema sinensis, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. vii. p. 1759 (1856). Pryer says that the larva feeds on pear. Yokohama, Yamato (Pryer). 154. EPICOPEIA SIMULANS, sp. n. (Plate XXXI. fig. 1.) Both sexes : all the wings smoky black ; secondaries with a broad short tail, about the centre of the outer margin is a crimson spot; there are also four crimson spots between the tail and anal angle; head, thorax, and abdomen black, the latter with a crimson streak along each side; legs black, with the exception of femora of anterior pair, which are crimson ; under surface as above, but primaries paler towards the outer margins. Expanse, 8 2 78 millim. Hakodate (Nat. Coll., June & July 1887); Hakone (Pryer). |