256 ^Pril, 



The chief points of difference between this species and gemmata* 

 are, its smaller size, the entire absence of the raised polished surfaces 

 on the thorax, the evenness and the uniformity of the striae, and the 

 comparatively larger size of the wax-like spots. The appearance of 

 the first or basal spot in gemmata, w T hich rests in the interstice of the 

 fourth and fifth elytral striae, is as though the spot had pushed aside 

 the punctures which had then opened and formed a "setting" to it. In 

 the present species, the spot covers tw T o interstices ; and the 5th stria, 

 running through it, is distinctly visible. The sexual characters of both 

 insects are alike. When H. cereo-punctata is alive, it is exceedingly 

 like a Buprestis, and this similitude is enhanced by a portion of the 

 red colour of the thighs protuding over the edges of the body, giving 

 the insect the appearance, when viewed from above, of having six red 

 spots on its margin. I have a black species of Melandrya with legs 

 (yellow) coloured in the same manner, and as it walks over dead 

 branches it looks like a spotted Chalcoplwra. 



I obtained the Helota in June, off dead branches of young oaks, 

 which had been killed early in the spring by a forest-fire. 



Grand Hotel, Yokohama : 



13th January, 1881. 



Asopia Lienigialis, Zell., a moth neiv to Britain. — I captured a Pyralis at light 

 in August, 1879, which I put aside as a variety of P. farinalis, but in the last 

 August and September I took three others, all at light. I then saw that it 

 was something new and sent a specimen to Mr. C. Or. Barrett, who informed me that 

 it was Asopia Lienigialis, Zell., a species as yet only recorded as occurring in Livonia 

 and Finland. Another collector here (Mr. Bryan) has also taken three or four 

 specimens. — W. Thompson, 183, Stantonbury, Stoney Stratford, Bucks : February 

 26th, 1881. 



[A type of Asopia Lienigialis from Professor Zeller differs from farinalis in 

 the position of the first whitish line, which is nearer the middle of the wing, the 

 basal blotch being therefore larger and the median area smaller than in that species. 

 The second pale line is more regularly curved and originates in a broader pale streak 

 or blotch on the costal margin. In the hind-wings the first delicate pale striga, 

 which in farinalis forms a continuation of the first line on the fore-wings, is, in 

 Lienigialis, placed more perpendicularly so that it originates opposite the middle of 

 the basal blutch of the fore-wings. Zeller's specimen closely resembles farinalis in 

 colour, but Mr. Thompson's specimens are more fuscous — approaching the colour of 

 Pyralis glaucinalis — the markings, however, agree accurately. — C. Gr. B.] 



[The occurrence with us of this Northern species, so closely allied to our old 



friend P. farinalis, is of extreme interest. Baron v. Nolcken in his Fauna of 



Esthonia, Livonia, and Courland, mentions that he had only met with a single 



* I found this species commonly in Yezo last summer- on willows, where the larvae of Hepia- 

 lus were at work- so it probably occurs throughout Dai Nippon— G L. 



