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Show 1888.] LEPIDOPTERA OF JAPAN AND COREA. 629 235. GASTROPACHA QUERCIFOLIA. Phalcena-Bombyx quercifolia, Linn. Syst. Nat. x. p. 497. (Bombyx) Hiibn. Bomb. pl. xliii. figs. 187, 188. Gastropacha quercifolia, Ochs. Schmett. Eur. iii. p. 247. Japanese specimens are rich in colour and most nearly approach the form alnifolia, Ochs. Pryer says in his Catalogue that larvae of this species are abundant at Fujisan. A specimen which I bred from a larva found at Gensan is much paler than either Japanese or European examples in m y collection. Yokohama (Pryer) ; Corea (Leech). Europe. 236. GASTROPACHA POPULIFOLIA. Bombyx populifolia, Esp. Schmett. iii. pl. 6. figs. 3, 4. Gastropacha populifolia, Ochs. Schmett. Eur. iii. p. 45. 3. Two males, one from Pryer's coll. and the other I took at Hakodate in August. Yokohama (Pryer); Hakodate (Leech) ; Corea (Herz). Europe. 237. NUMENES DISPARILIS. Numenes disparilis, Staud., Rom. Mem. sur Lep. iii. p. 200, pl. xi. figs. 2a, 2b. Two female specimens in Pryer's collection ; these are referable to no. 136 of his Catalogue, and the locality there given is Asamayama ; but whether this applies to both examples it is not possible to say, as there are no locality tickets attached to the insects. They agree exactly with specimens from Kiukiang. Asamayama (Pryer); Vladivostok, Askold. 238. LYMANTRIA ALBO FASCIA, sp. n. (Plate XXXI. fig. 8.) 8 . Brownish black ; primaries with an oblique broad white fascia from costa towards apex to outer angle. Head, thorax, and legs chestnut-brown. Abdomen yellowish brown beneath. Under surface of primaries as above, but apical third yellowish white, with some orange scales along costa and outer margin. Expanse 56 millim. One example of this remarkable species in Pryer's collection. Ohoyama (Pryer). 239. LYMANTRIA AURORA. 2 . Lymantria aurora, Butl. Ann. & Ma?. Nat. Hist. (4) xx. p. 403 (1878); 111. Typ. Lep. Het. ii. p. 11, pl. xxiv. fig. 5 (1878). Var. FUSCA. This species varies greatly in the matter of size. The male also exhibits considerable differences in the depth of colour. The example figured Plate X X X I . fig. 9 is one of four specimens of the darkest form ; these were taken at Nagahama in July. I propose that this form should be known as var. fusca. Yokohama (Jonas and Pryer) ; Kurile Islands, Yesso, Oiwake (Pryer) ; Nagahama, Tsuruga, Sendai, Gensan (Leech). |