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Show 1889.] LEPIDOPTERA OF JAPAN AND COREA. 525 232. ERASTRIA FLAVICOLLIS, sp. n. (Plate LIII. fig. 4.) § . Primaries violet-grey, a black longitudinal streak from middle of base ; the elongated white reniform stigma has a dark grey spot at its lower end and is preceded and followed by a yellowish suffusion, which in turn is bordered with blackish ; apical third clouded with blackish ; submarginal line only traceable as a pale streak on costa before apex: secondaries pale fuscous grey. Under surface of primaries fuscous, paler on the costa towards apex ; central spot large, whitish ; some indistinct traces of darker transverse lines : secondaries whitish grey, darker on costa ; central line and spot blackish. Expanse 28 millim. One example, coll. Pryer. Oiwake (Pryer). 233. ERASTRIA COSTIMACULA. Erastria costimacula, Oberth. Etud. d'Ent. v. p. 83, pi. iv. fig. 4 (1880). Six specimens, coll. Pryer. Japan (Pryer); Askold. 234. ERASTRIA SENEX. Erastria senex, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 189. Several examples, coll. Pryer. I took specimens at Nagasaki in June. Tokio (Fenton) ; Nagasaki (Leech) ; Yokohama (Pryer). 235. ERASTRIA AFRICANA. Erastria africana, Feld. R. N. cviii. fig. 6. Erastria nemorum, Oberth. Etud. d'Ent. v. p. 82, pi. iv. fig. 2 (1880). A good series, coll. Pryer. I took a number of specimens at Gensan in June. Yokohama? (Pryer); Gensan (Leech) ; Askold, N. India. 236. ERASTRIA CANDIDULA. Noctua candidula, Borkh. Eur. Schmett. iv. p. 196 ; Hiibn. Noct. pi. 60. fig. 295. Erastria candidula, Treit. Schmett. v. p. 263 ; Guen. Noct. ii. p. 228. A few specimens, coll. Pryer (no. 874). I took several examples at Gensan in July, and my native collector obtained some at Hakodate in June or July. The dark markings are more distinctly defined than in European specimens. Gensan (Leech) ; Hakodate (Nat. Coll.) ; Yesso (Pryer) ; Tokio. |
