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Show 622 MR. J. H. LEECH O N T H E [Dec. 18, 203. LEUCOMA AURIPES. Leucoma auripes, Bull. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) xx. p. 402 (1877); 111. Typ. Lep. Het. ii. p. 9, pl. xxiv. fig. 1 (1878). I did not meet with this species in Japan, but there were four males and three females in Pryer's collection. Three of the former and one of the latter are labelled Yesso, 1882. In the same collection three small specimens of L. auripes, also from Yesso, were set apart and are the no. 161 of Pryer's Catalogue. These small specimens agree with a series I obtained at Gensan in 1886. The smallest 8 in this series measures only 40 millim., and the largest 8 49 millim.; the smallest $ 44 millim., and the largest $ 58 millim.; whereas the measurements of typical examples are, 58 millim. for 8 > and 68 millim. for $ . Common at Gensan, flying among fir-trees in the daytime. The primaries of $ have no black costal edging as in the 8 • Yokohama (Jonas) ; Yesso (Pryer) ; Gensan (Leech). 204. LARIA L-NIGRUM. Phalcena-Bombyx l-nigrum, Mueller, Faun. Fr. p. 40 (1764). Bombyx v-nigrum, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 577 fl 775). Four males and one female, coll. Pryer. The male from Japan, like the same sex of this species from Ningpo and Kiukiang, has a round black spot at end of discal cell instead of tbe usual L or V. The female, on the other hand, has a well-developed V-like mark. Ohoyama, Nikko (Prger) ; Ningpo (Leech); Corea (Hers). Europe. 205. STILPNOTIA SALICIS. Phalcena-Bombyx salicis, Linn. Syst. Nat. x. p. 502. Several examples in coll. Pryer. Perhaps a little more densely scaled, but otherwise Japanese specimens agree very well with tbe European type. Tokio, Yesso (Pryer) ; Corea (llerz). 206. PORTHESIA CHRYSORRHCEA. Phalcena-Bombyx chrysorrhcea, Linn. Syst. Nat. x. p. 502. Bombyx chrysorrhcea, Hiibn. pl. 18. fig. 67, pl. 58. fi°-s. 248-9. A 5 example at Nagahama, July. 207. PORTHESIA AURIFLUA. Bombyx auriflua, Fabr. Mant. p. 125(1717). Bombyx auriflua, Hiibn. Bomb. pl. 18. figs. 68, 69. Bombyx chrysorrhcea, Esp. Schmett. iii. pl. 39. figs. 1, 2, 7. Among Japanese and Corean examples of this species there is much variation in the markings of primaries. In typical 8 specimens of P. auriflua there is a brownish-black spot on the inner margin near anal angle, and such specimens there are in my series from Japan and Gensan ; but others have an additional spot towards the base of the inner margin, and other examples again have a third |
