Moths neto to Japan. 121 



A good figure of J/, bracteata will be fouud iu the sixth part 

 of " Illustrations of typical Lepidoptera Heterocera," part VI, pi. 

 CII, fig. 2. 



The type of M. inornata is a large female from N. China, 



MiCROLEON, n. gen. 



Closely allied to Lithacodes, of Packard, but with longer and 

 more slender upcurved palpi; the secondaries differing in neu- 

 ration as follows: — sub-costal branches emitted from a short 

 foot-stalk; discocelhilars much more angulated, so that the lower 

 half of the cell is produced forward much in advance of the 

 upper half ; the second and third median branches emitted close 

 together; hind legs with four slender spines, two in the middle 

 and two at the end of the tibia. 



18. Microleon longipalpis, n. sja. 



Primaries above bronze-brown ; the basal fourth, a clavate 

 streak on inner margin extending from the basal patch to just 

 beyond the middle of the margin, a cuneiform costal patch at 

 apex, and a dot at the end of the cell, orange-ochreous ; second- 

 aries sericeous grey-brown; fringes of all the wings whity-brown 

 traversed by two grey-brown stripes ; thorax reddish-orange, 

 abdomen smoky-grey, with golden testaceous anal tuft, with a 

 few dark grey hairs in front; wings below grey, with faint rosy 

 and bronze reflections ; fringes paler than above ; body pale 

 sericeous golden-brown. Expanse of wings 16 mm. 



Yokohama (H. Pryer). 



Pryer's note upon this species is incomprehensible to me; lie 

 refers it to the genus Phrixolepia! and remarks: — " only differs 

 from the former (i.e., P. sericea) by being considerably larger." 

 Now, as P. sericea, measures 27 millimetres in expanse, and 

 therefore is nearly twice as large ; and, as moreover it differs 

 wholly in colour, pattern and structure, I can hardly believe 

 that he has labelled the specimen with its right number, and 

 yet the only other Limacodid in the collection is Miresa inornata, 

 an insect even more absurdly unlike P. sericea than the species 

 before me ; had Pryer suggested a resemblance to Monenia 

 flavescens he would not have been so wide of the mark, as 

 although it differs considerably from that insect in neuration, it 

 has similar palpi and some notion of the colouring. 



