NISW SPECIES OF HRTEROCERA FROM JAPAN AND FORMOSA. 



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on basal area up to the pale, wavy, and outwardly oblique antemedial 

 line ; a narrow black band follows the antemedial line ; postoaedial 

 line pale, wavy, edged with black on each side, the black continued 

 along veins from its outer edge ; a black-brown patcli on costa 

 between postmedial line and apes of the wing; terminal line blackish, 

 fringes greyish marked with black-brown at ends of the veins. Hind 

 wings smoky grey, veins brownish, hairs on basal area brown-tinged ; 

 fringes greyish, marked with brown at ends of the veins. 

 Expanse, 46 mm. 



Type in the British Museum. Gifu (ex coll. Leech). 

 Comes near Z). trimacula, Esp. 



Stavropus obliterata, sp. n. 



(J . Head whitish, thorax greyish brown, patagia whitish ; abdo- 

 men brownish, posterior edges of segments whitish. Fore wings 

 whitish sprinkled and sufi'used with brownish ; discoidal spot 

 blackish, elongate ; faint traces of oblique antemedial and blackish 

 • postmedial lines, the latter sinuous ; subterminal line represented 

 by a series of blackish spots between the veins ; terminal line brown, 

 fringes whitish. Hind wings whitish suffused with brown on basal 

 two-thirds ; terminal line brown, fringes whitish. 

 Expanse, 46 mm. 



Type in the British Museum. Oiwake (ex coll. Leech). 

 Allied to S. giisescens, Staudinger. 



TarsoUpis javonica, sp. n. 



^ . Antennse dark brown ; head and thorax cinnamon brown, 

 the latter with a short dark brown bar in front and dark brown 

 edging behind ; abdomen dark brown, becoming paler on anal 

 segment. Fore wings pale cinnamon brown, suffused with greyish 

 on apical and terminal areas ; two silvery cuneiform spots as in 

 r. sovimeri, but both are shorter, the apex of the upper one acute ; 

 area between the spots streaked with dark brown, a dark brown 

 «urved line before the lower spot ; postmedial line pale, wavy from 

 costa to upper silvery spot, round the apex of which it curves and 

 falls on dorsum near apex of lower spot; subterminal line as in 

 sommeri but straighter. Hind wings dark brown, paler on costa, 

 discoidal spot blackish. Underside pale brown, clouded with dark 

 brown on medial area of fore wings ; a large black discoidal spot and 

 a series of black terminal dots on hind wings. 



$ . Similar but more heavily streaked with dark brown between 

 and around the silvery spots. 



Expanse, 76 mm. (^ ; 78 mm. ? . 



A male specimen and two females from Tokio, July, 1894, 

 andafemale from Miyanoshita, August, 1907. Types coll. Wileman . 



A specimen from Japan in the British Museum (ex coll. 

 Leech) measures only 64 millim. in expanse. 



This species was confused by Leech with E. remicaudoy. 

 Butl. = sommeri, Kb. 



