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Show 1889.] LEPIDOPTERA O F J A P A N A N D C O R E A . 503 wings grey-brown, clouded with fuscous; discal lines darker, bordered outwardly with paler. Antennse of the 3 strongly pectinated, $ slightly serrated. Expanse, 3 45 millim., $ 50 millim. Allied to A. aprilina, but it is a broader-winged insect and there is a considerable difference in the structure of the antennae. Four examples, coll. Pryer. Yokohama ? 132. MlSELIA EXTENSA. Belosticta extensa, Butl, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) iv. p. 357 (1879). Miselia cinerea, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 184. A fine series, coll. Pryer. This insect is very like an exaggerated form of the European M. oxyacanthce, in which the primaries have become elongated. Yokohama (Pryer). 133. MISELIA FUNESTA, sp. n. (Plate LI. fig. 7.) Primaries blackish grey, mottled and clouded with paler and darker, and with some whitish spots on the costa; the transverse lines are indistinct, but there are traces of a short one at the base ; a series of blackish dots and streaks edged with whitish represent the outer line, this curves gently inwards from the costa to opposite the lower end of reniform, from which point it takes an oblique course to the inner margin, and intersects a black longitudinal bar above inner angle; submarginal line white, edged on both sides with black ; a series of blackish-grey oblong spots, followed and separated by white dots between submarginal line and outer margin; fringes grey, intersected by a blackish line : secondaries whitish, fuscous at outer margin, traversed by two central bands. Under surface of primaries fuscous, central spot and inner margin paler; four whitish spots on costa towards apex ; fringes dark grey, paler at base : secondaries shining whitish, some darker scales over costal area ; fringes grey, intersected by a blackish line. Head blackish grey, spotted with white, thorax black, collar edged above with white ; patagia tipped with white, abdomen grey. Expanse 57 millim. Two specimens, coll. Pryer. Yokohama? (Pryer). 134. PHLOGOPHORA BEATRIX. Phlogophora beatrix, Butl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) i. p. 193 (1878) ; 111. Typ. Lep. Het. iii. pi. xliv. fig. 12 (1879). Phlogophora pallens, Oberth. Diag. Lep. Ask. p. 14 (1879); Etud. d'Ent. v. pi. iii. fig. 3 (1880). Several specimens, coll. Pryer. Hakodate (Whitely, Andrews); Yokohama, Oiwake (Pryer); Yesso, Askold. |
