OCR Text |
Show 1889.] LEPIDOPTERA OF JAPAN AND COREA. 505 the outer fourth whitish ; four pale dots on costa towards apex, fourth at commencement of pale wavy but indistinct submarginal line: secondaries dark brown, traversed by a darker transverse central line; fringes paler at the base and preceded by a blackish line. Under surface ochreous brown suffused with fuscous; dark central spot and pale submarginal line cn all the wings. Expanse, 3 35 millim., 2 37 millim. Seven specimens, coll. Pryer. Allied to E. lucipara from Europe. 140. GONOPTERA LIBATRIX. Phal.-Bombyx libatrix, Linn. Syst. Nat. x. p. 537; Faun. Suec. p. 304. Bombyx libatrix, Esp. Schmett. iii. pi. 69. fig. 4. Noctua libatrix, Hiibn. Noct. pi. 93. fig. 436. Calpe libatrix, Treit. Schmett. v. 2. 172. Calyptra libatrix, Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 50. Gonoptera libatrix, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 405. Several specimens, coll. Pryer. I took fine examples at Gensan in July. Yokohama, Oiwake, Gifu (Pryer) ; Gensan (Leech) ; Amur, Europe, N. America. 141. COSMOPHILA XANTHINDYMA. Cosmophila xanthindyma, Boisd. Faune Ent. Madag., Lep. p. 94, pi. xiii. fig. 7 (1834); Guen. Noct. ii. p. 396 (1852); Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 84, pi. 155. figs. 1, 1 a, 1 b (1884). Cirroedia variolosa, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. xi. p. 750 (1857). Cirroedia edentata, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. xi. p. 750 (1857). Var. Cosmophila indica, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 396 (1852). A nice series, coll. Pryer (no. 707). This appears to be a very variable species. In the Japanese series before me there are forms between the type and var. indica, Guen. Yokohama (Pryer) ; N. India, Ceylon, Moreton Bay, Tasmania, Sierra Leone, Congo, Madagascar, Mauritius, Isle of Bourbon, Java, Malabar. 142. GONITIS INVOLUTA. Gonitis involuta, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. xiii. p. 1003 (1857). Gonitis basalis, Walk. I. c. p. 1004. Tiridata colligata, Walk. I.e. Suppl. iii. p. 870 (1865). I received one example of this Indian species from Mr. Manley, who captured it at Yokohama. Yokohama (Manley) ; N. India, Ceylon. 143. GONITIS FRACTIFERA. Gonitis fractifera, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. xiii. p. 998 (1857). Several specimens, coll. Pryer. My native collector took examples at Gensan in September. PROC. ZOOL. SOC-1889, No. XXXIV. 34 |