114 Mr. Butler's descriptions of 



less distinct; on tlie costal borders o£ primaries a short olivaceous 

 dash near the base followed by a pale-edged almost semi-circular 

 spot upon the margin ; a diffused spot or streak before the 

 middle and five oblique streaks crossing the sub-costal vein 

 beyond the cell; a blackish disco-cellular spot; extremely faint 

 and. interrupted indications of two irregular central lines; a 

 blackish dot below the base of the cell ; a large bilobed pale- 

 edged olivaceous spot upon the inner margin near the base; a 

 rounded olivaceous spot beyond the middle of first median inter- 

 space and resting upon the first median branch, and below this 

 a reddish-brown patch enclosing a crescent of the ground- 

 colour; external border dull chocolate-brown, tapering at the 

 extremities; secondaries with an abbreviated oblique grey central 

 stripe, Erom the radial to the sub-median vein; a darker sub-anal 

 stripe with a clavate streak of the same colour below it ; apical 

 area speckled wiih dark rust-brown; outer border narrowly of 

 the same colour, excepting towards anal angle, where it is sandy- 

 yellowish ; thorax with a golden-olivaceous cuneiform patch on 

 the tagulre, apparently confluent with a quadrate patch on each 

 side of the metathorax, this patch is divided obliquely, the frt)nt 

 part being olivaceous and the back part rich olive-broAvn, with 

 a whitish crescent in front partly separating the two colours; a 

 broad band of chocolate-brown between the antenna} ; fifth 

 segment of abdomen with an olive-green spot on each side; anal 

 segment Avith a golde:i-olive dorsal spot and. lateral testaceous 

 tufts ; imder-surface of wings, especially of the secondaries, 

 much paler than above, primaries with the external l)order ash- 

 grey, Avith brown inner edge; body below more golden than 

 above, the base of palpi and front of pectus reddish. Expanse 

 of wings 35 mm. 

 Nikko (H. Pryer). 



Arctiid.e. 

 3. Estigmene vicerens, n. sp. 



Allied to E. hictifera, of Europe, but the primaries narrower, 

 less opaque, blacker at the base; secondaries paler, smoky- brown, 

 Avithout a trace of the orange anal spot or patch ; abdomen Avitli 

 all the black spots large, those of the dorsal series confluent. 

 Expanse of Avings 91 mm. 



Yokohama (II. Pryer). 



Eputuhnis japonica, of Walker from Japan, is the true E. 

 hictifera] it was unset Avhen described. 



