198 NOBUKATUS ilAKCilO. 



■\\litte small streaks uear extremity, ouo fit apex and another before apex oa 

 lower margin ; second cleft with a wliite streak at apex ; cilia blackish with 

 a white spot at apax and on lower margin of first cleft, two white spots on 

 costii before apes, and on lower margin of second cleft. Hiudwings some- 

 tiiue3 with a whits spot in cell ; cilia of lower margin of second cleft spotted 

 with white near apex. 



Expanse, 14-16 mm. 



Three males taken by me at Noma, Tauegashima, June 11, 14, 1919. 



Fam. Simfethidae. 



Simacthis yal^'ushimeiisis. n. sp. 



(PI. III. fig. 8.) 



?.Head orange fnlvcms sprinkled with wliitish. Palpi ^vhite, second and 

 terminal joints with basal and subapical fulvous bands. Antenna? white 

 ringed with black. Thorax orange fiilvons, posteriorly mixed with dark 

 fnscous and slightly whitish sprinkled. Abdomen dark fuscous irrorated ^\ith 

 orange ochi-eous. Posterior tibite whitish ochreous banded witli dark fuscous, 

 tarsi whitish, first and second joints with subapical fulvous riugs, two apical 

 joints dark fuscous. Forewings triangular, costa moderately arched, apex 

 obtuse, termen almost straight, somewhat oblique ; orange ochreous irrorated 

 with whitish ; antemedial band slightly sinuous, feiTuginous brown mixed 

 with black, followed by a posteriorly imdefined shade of whitish irroration ; 

 postmedial anteriorly somewhat ill-defiued baud sti-ougly bent outwards below 

 costa, bidentate at middle, broken inwards below it and minutely bideutata ; 

 defiued by whitish on its outer side ; subtermiual baud black, inteiTupted at 

 middle ; terminal line black ; ciha red-brown mixed with dark fuscous at 

 apex, at middle aud at tornus. Hiudwings dark fuscous ; subterminal line 

 red-brown, only distinct towards tornus ; terminal line black ; cilia red-brown 

 with the tips whitish. 



Expanse 12 mm. 



A female taken by me at IMiyauoura, Yakushima, -Tuly 12, 1918. 



