138 SOBCKATSÜ MÄEGilO. 



Ilema sororcula Hmpsu. (part). Cat. II. p. 185 (1900). 



A male fiud a female of apnea form taken by me at Nisliinoomote, 

 Tanegashima, July 25 aud 26, 1918. 



Local distribution. Hokkaido ; Honsliiu. 



General distribution. Japan ; Loochoo ; China ; Siberia ; India. 



Asura intermedia, u. sp. 



(PI. in. fig. 2.) 



Yellow. Thorax -n-ithout black points ; foie tibias and tarsi banded witb 

 black at the tip. Forewiugs with a black point at base ; subbasal and 

 curved antemedial series of black points ; a medial oblique series of black 

 points ; a highly aud irregularly dentate postij:edial black line strongly bent 

 outwards below costa and to inner margin, with long teeth on veins 4; 6 and 

 7 ; a subterminal series of black pwints, the spot on vein 4 is situated near 

 termen. Hindwiugs hyaline slighth- siiffnsed with yellow. 



Expanse J 18, ? 21mm. 



A male type taken by me at Miyanoura, Yakushima, July 12, 1918. 

 Several males and females also from Yakushima, July 1918. 



Closely aUied to Asura obsohta Moore. 



Subfam. Aectian.i;. 

 Diacrisia snbcarnea. 



Spilosoma suhcarnca Walk. Cast. III. p. 675 (1855); Butl. Ul. Het. E.M. in. 



p. 6, pi. 42. f. 8; Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1899, p. 149; Hnipsu. Cat. 



in. p. 215; Seitz, Seitz, Macrolep. 11. p. 85, pi. 15 d. 

 Aloa lifrons Wlk. Cat. III. p. 705 (1855). 

 Aloa leucolhorax Feld. Wien. ent. Mon. VI. p. 36 (1862). 

 Splloscmia embescens Moore, A.M.N.H. (4) XX. p. 89 (1877). 

 Spilosoma ri/hakoiüi Alph. Rom. Mem. IX. p. 171, pi. 10. f. 9 (1897). 

 Hyarias ohciiJntri Semp. Schmett. Phil. II. p. 489 (1899). 



Tn-o males aud females taken by Habutsu in Yakushima, August 1910.. 



Local distribution. Houshiu : Kiushiu. 



