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Show 1889.] LEPIDOPTERA O F J A P A N A N D C O R E A . 507 Hadena seladonia, Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 23. Var. Dichonia intermissa, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1886, p. 134. A fine series, coll. Pryer. Some examples agree well with D. intermissa, Butl.; these and the other specimens are most certainly referable to D. protea. Yokohama (Pryer); Europe. 148. BERRHCEA JAPONICA, sp. n. (Plate L. fig. 11.) Primaries pale olive-green, nervures violet-grey; abbreviated basal line whitish, bidentate, and edged externally with black; inner line whitish, shaded externally with blackish ; outer line whitish, edged and clouded internally with black ; these transverse lines limit a central violet-brown fascia, clouded with darker and tinged here and there with olive-green, and approximate just above the inner margin, where they, as also an oblique blackish dash from the inner margin between the basal and inner lines, are intersected by the violet submedian nerve; outer margin broadly violet-grey, dashed with olive-grey at apex, the internal edge defined by a serrated and angulated pale line; reniform olive-green, black at its lower end, its exterior edge outlined with whitish, and followed by a blackish shade; orbicular olive-green, centre blackish, outlined with paler and edged with blackish ; fringes spotted with pale brown, and preceded by a series of black lunules, edged internally with olive-green: secondaries fuscous brown, central spot blackish ; fringes pale brown, intersected by a darker line. Under surface of primaries fuscous brown ; pale annulated central spot and darker transverse line, the former preceded by a short oblique dark costal spot: secondaries with a black central spot and dark crenate transverse line. Expanse 46 millim. Allied to B. olivacea, Moore. Five specimens, coll. Pryer. I took one example at Oiwake in October. Yokohama ? (Pryer) ; Oiwake (Leech). 149. EUROIS VIRENS. Eurois virens, Butl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) i. p. 194 (1878); 111. Typ. Lep. Het. iii. pi. xiv. fig. 5 (1879); Oberth. Etud. d'Ent. x. pi. ii. fig. 12. Two specimens, coll. Pryer. I took one example at Gensan in July. Hakodate ( Whitely) ; Gensan (Leech) ; Sidemi (Jankowski) ; N.W. Himalayas. 150. EUROIS PRASINA. Noctua prasina, Fabr. Mant. p. 169 (1787). Noctua egregia, Esp. Schmett. pi. 119. fig. 7. Eurois herbida, Hiibn. Verz. Schmett. p. 218. n. 2175. |
