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Show 1889.] LEPIDOPTERA OF JAPAN AND COREA. 513 from Britain which agrees very well with them in this respect. only regard T. evanida, Butl., as an exaggerated form of T. instabilis. Yokohama (Pryer) ; Europe. 173. TEENIOCAMPA STABILIS. Noctua stabilis, View. Tab. Verz. ii. p. 14 (1789) ; Hubn. Noct. fig. 171. Teeniocampa stabilis, Guen. Noct. i. p. 354. Several examples, coll. Pryer, under the name of T. gracilis (no. 787). Yokohama (Manley, Pryer) ; Yesso (Pryer). 174. TEENIOCAMPA AURORIcE. Teenoicampa aurorice, Oberth. Etud. d'Ent. v. p. 76, pi. iii. fig. (1880). One specimen in Pryer's collection, and one taken by my native collector at Hakodate in June or July. 175. TcENIOCAMPA ODIOSA. Agrotis odiosa, Butl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) i. p. 162(1878) 111. Typ. Lep. Het. iii. pi. xliv. fig. 8 (1879). Yokohama (Jonas). 176. ORTHOSIA SUSPECTA. Noctua suspecta, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett. Noct. fig. 633. Orthosia suspecta, Guen. Noct. i. p. 360. Noctua congener, Freyer, Neuere Beitr. Schmetterl. iii. pi. 209. figs. 2, 3. Noctua iners, Germ. Faun. Ins. Eur. xvi. pi. 24. One example, coll. Pryer. Japan (Pryer) ; Europe. 177. ORTHOSIA FAUSTA, sp. n. (Plate L. fig. 2.) Primaries ochreous or brown, clouded with darker towards outer margin ; a black spot on median nerve near the base; inner and outer lines represented by black spots ; submarginal line pale, angulated below costa; fringes preceded by a row of black spots ; reniform outlined in pale and filled up with blackish, below this is a dark shade to the inner margin ; orbicular outlined in paler but very indistinct: secondaries fuscous brown ; fringes paler. Underside fuscous brown, apical area tinged with pink, central spot and line darker but shadowy; secondaries brown tinged with pink, a distinct black costal spot, transverse central line formed of black dots. Expanse 40 millim. Six specimens coll. Pryer (Yesso) (Pryer); Yokohama (Manley). The above description is taken from a male specimen in which themarkings are well defined, but the characters referred to vary in intensity. |