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Show 504 MR. J. H. LEECH ON THE [Nov. 19, 135. LAMPROSTICTA BELLA. Lamprosticta bella, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 183. Two examples, coll. Pryer. Tokio (Fenton) ; Yesso (Pryer). 136. LAMPROSTICTA VENUSTA, sp. n. (Plate LL fig. 5.) Primaries pale whitish green ; reniform and orbicular of the ground-colour, spotted and surrounded with black; a short black basal streak ; submarginal line represented by a short dash on costa, another towards middle, and an arrow-shaped mark at inner angle ; costa, outer and inner margins spotted with black : secondaries greyish brown, with a fuscous central line and spot, and a broad band on outer margin ; fringes chequered with dark grey and white. Under surface of primaries fuscous ; costa and outer margins whitish green, spotted with black ; secondaries whitish with black central line and spot, outer margin clouded with fuscous towards costa. Thorax green, variegated with black ; abdomen blackish grey, segmental divisions paler. Expanse 41 millim. One $ example, coll. Pryer, without exact locality, but probably from Yokohama. 137. EUPLEXIA ALBOVITTATA. Euplexia albovittata, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1866, p. 57, pi. vi. fig. 16 ; Butl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) v. p. 225 (1880). One example, coll. Pryer (no. 827). I took a specimen at Gensan in June. Nikko (Pryer); Hakodate (Andrews) ; Gensan (Leech) ; Darjeeling, Bengal, Nilgiri Hills, Sikkim, Thundiani. 138. EUPLEXIA LUCIPARA. Phal.-Noctua lucipara, Linn. Syst. Nat. x. p. 518; Faun. Suec. 318. Noctua lucipara, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 154. figs. 1-4 ; Hiibn. Noct. fig. 55. Phlogophora lucipara, Treit. Schmett. v. 1. 377. Euplexia lucipara, Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 1 ; Guen. Noct. i. p. 68. Several specimens, coll. Pryer. I took this species at Sendai in September, and m y native collector met with it at Hakodate in June or July. Yokohama, Oiwake, Yesso (Pryer) ; Sendai (Leech): Hakodate (Nat. Coll.); Tokio; Europe, N e w York. 139. EUPLEXIA JAPONICA, sp. n. (Plate LI. fig. 4.) Primaries dark chocolate-brown, with a slight violet tinge; the area between the pale curved inner and serrated elbowed outer lines darker, and divided by a still darker longitudinal shade-like bar which encloses the claviform stigma; reniform indistinctly outlined, |