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Show 1889.] LEPIDOPTERA OF JAPAN A N D COREA. 501 either, and might be considered distinct only that there are other forms which connect them with A. ravida and A. valida, and these last are also connected by intermediates. Yokohama (Pryer) ; Hakodate (Nat. Coll.) ; Oiwake, Gensan (Leech) ; Shanghai, Tokio, Chiuzenji. Europe ; N. America. 122. AGROTIS BREMERI. Agrotis bremeri, Ersch. Horse Soc. Ent. Ross. (Russian ed.) iv. p. 152 (1870). Agrotis speciosa, Brem. Lep. Ost-Sib. p. 50, pi. iv. fig. 10. One specimen, coll. Pryer. Yesso (Pryer) ; Amur. 123. AGROTIS LUCENS. Spcelotis lucens, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 179. I have no example of this species, but examination of the type specimen in Nat. Collection leads me to suppose that it is a near relation of Agrotis senna, and is altogether out of place in the genus Spcelotis. Tokio (Fenton). 124. AGROTIS SQUALIDA. Spcelotis squalida, Boisd. Ind. Meth. 107. 800. Agrotis lycarum, Herr.-Scbaff. Schmett. ii. pi. 22. figs. 122-124 (1846). Agrotis squalida, Guen. Noct. i. 300 (1852). Three examples, coll. Pryer. I took one specimen at Hakodate in August. Hakodate (Leech) ; Yokohama ? (Pryer) ; Ural, Amur, Altai. 125. AGROTIS UNDOSA, sp. n. (Plate L. fig. 3.) Primaries violet-grey, traversed by a number of faint wavy lines ; central third darker, inclining to black towards costa and limited by slightly indented inner and undulated outer lines ; the inner portion of basal third is crossed by several rather darker lines ; the dark submarginal line commences in a black quadrate spot on costa ; stigmata indistinctly outlined ; fringes preceded by a blackish line : secondaries blackish, paler towards base, central lunule blackish; fringes yellowish. Under surface fuscous, central and submarginal line of primaries darker, central area of secondaries with a black spot and transverse line. Head and thorax silvery grey, collar blackish. Expanse 38 millim. One 2 specimen, coll. Pryer. I took a 3 example at Nikko in September, and another at Oiwake in October 1886. Yokohama ? (Pryer) ; Nikko, Oiwake (Leech). 126. POLYPH.ENIS PULCHERRIMA. Epilecta pulcherrima, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, p. 54, pi. vi. fig. 3. |