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Show 1889.] LEPIDOPTERA OF JAPAN AND COREA. 527 240. ERASTRIA BRUNNEA, sp. n. (Plate LIII. fig. 2.) Primaries pale reddish brown ; orbicular whitish, centred with brown and sprrnounted by a whitish cloud on the costa, below is an indistinct annulated whitish spot; reniform outlined with whitish and filled in with reddish brown, followed by a curved and slightly angulated whitish line, which commences in a white blotch on the costa and is edged with dark brownish; between the stigmata is a dark brown shade extending to the costa : submarginal line whitish, angulated near the costa, and indented above the inner margin with three short longitudinal dashes from the middle of its inner edge ; fringes grey-brown, intersected by a brown line and preceded by a series of brownish linear spots on external margin: secondaries pale fuscous. Under surface of primaries brown, cupreous brown on margins; central line darker, but only clearly defined on the costa ; fringes grey, intersected by a darker line and tipped with brownish : secondaries whitish brown, darker and tinged with cupreous on costa and external margin, central line and spot blackish. Expanse 24 millim. Five specimens, coll. Pryer, without exact locality (Cat. no. 892). Allied to E. olivacea. Yokohama ? (Pryer). 241. ERASTRIA ROSACEA, sp. n. (Plate LIII. fig. 9.) Primaries olive-brown ; inner indented line and small patch at base pinkish, followed by a large square patch of the same colour on costa, in the lower portion of which is a black colon-like spot, and below this an olive-brown centred pinkish spot ; reniform pinkish, with an olive-brown line towards its inner edge ; outer line dark, wavy and indented, bordered on both sides with pinkish ; submarginal line pinkish ; a row of blackish linear spots precedes the pinkish fringes, these last are intersected by a grey-brown line: secondaries fuscous, fringes paler with a dark central line. Under surface fuscous, margins of primaries and basal half of secondaries paler, the latter with a black central spot. Expanse, o* 22 millim., $ 25 millim. Two exam (ties of each sex, coll. Pryer. Allied to E. fasciana. Oiwake (Pryer). 242. ERASTRIA ATRATA. Erastria atrata, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 188. Erastria sidemiata, Oberth. Etud. d'Ent. x. p. 25, pi. iii. fig. 6 (1884). Several specimens, coll. Pryer. Tokio (Fenton) ; Oiwake, Yokohama (Pryer) ; Amur. 243. ERASTRIA SQUALIDA, sp. n. (Plate*LII. fig. 9.) 2 . Primaries pale brown with a faint purplish suffusion, inner line runs obliquely from the costa to middle of wing, where it curves inwards and upwards and then turning abruptly descends obliquely |
