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Show 1889.] LEPIDOPTERA OF JAPAN AND COREA. 477 11. ACRONYCTA ALNI. Phal.-Noctua alni, Linn. Syst. Nat. xii. p. 845. Noctua alni, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 116. figs. 4-6 ; Hiibn. Noct. pi. i. fig. 3. Acronycta alni, Treit. Schmett. v. 1. 16 ; Guen. Noct. i. p. 51. One very typical example, coll. Pryer. Yesso (Pryer); Europe. 12. ACRONYCTA LEPORINA. Phal.-Noctua leporina, Linn. Syst. Nat. x. p. 511. Noctua leporina, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 91. figs. 1-5; Hiibn. Noct. pi. 3. fig. 15. Acronycta leporina, Treit. Schmett. v. 1 ; Guen. Noct. i. p. 46. Two examples, coll. Pryer. Oiwake (Pryer) ; Hudson's Bay ; Europe. 13. ACRONYCTA SUBORNATA, sp. n. (Plate L. fig. 6.) Primaries dark grey, clouded with blackish and mottled with white, double serrated basal and denticulate inner lines black with an abbreviated white band between them, the outer line is double, denticulated and curved, interspace whitish; reniform outlined in black with a central black curved line, orbicular white, outlined in black with a black centre ; a short black longitudinal streak from the base and an indistinct dagger-mark at inner angle; fringes mottled grey, spotted with black at the base: secondaries fuscous grey; central spot, transverse line, and broad outer border blackish; fringes chequered black and white. Under surface of primaries fuliginous grey; costa whitish, spotted with black, central spot and transverse line black : secondaries silvery white, clouded with dark grey along the costal and marginal areas; a black costal spot unites with the central one forming a short transverse bar; central transverse denticulate line black ; fringes whitish dashed with black. Head and thorax grey ; patagia dark grey edged with black. Expanse 48 millim. Four specimens. Two, coll. Pryer, one taken by my native collector at Gensan in July and one from Yokohama. 14. PHARETRA RUMICIS. Phal.-Noctua rumicis, Linn. Syst. Nat. x. p. 516. Noctua rumicis, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 117. figs. 8, 9; Hiibn. Noct. 9. Acronycta rumicis, Treit. Schmett. v. 1. 38; Guen. Noct. i. p. 53. A fine series, coll. Pryer. I took specimens at several places in Japan and at Gensan in July and August, 1886. I have also received the species from my native collector, who took it at Nikko and Gensan. Japanese specimens of P. rumicis are, as a rule, rather darker than those from Europe. |
