18 Mr. J. H. Leech 07i 



There was a fine series of spechneus from Yokohama 

 aud Oiwake ia Fryer's collection. I have also received 

 examples from Chang-yang aud Chow-pin-sa. 



Distribution. Japan ; Central and Western China ; 



COREA; AmURLAND. 



723. Palimpsestes dicplaris. 



Pyralis dtiplaris, Linn., Faun. Suec, p. 352. 

 Cymatophora dujjlaris, Guen., Hist. Nat. Noct., i, p. 17. 

 Tethea diqolaris, Hiibn., Verz. Schmett., p. 273. 



There was one rather dark-coloured specimen in Fryer's 

 collection. So far as I am aware this is the only example 

 recorded from Eastern Asia. 



Distribution. Europe. — Japan; 



724. Palini'pscstes Irevis, sp. n. 



Primaries greyish-brown with a cupreous tinge ; there are some 

 silvery-white spots at the base and .some whitish marks towards apex 

 the hitter with black dots on them ; the stigmata are outlined in 

 black and placed in an obscure, dusky band, which is contracted 

 below the middle ; there are indications of several bhxck transverse 

 lines, all most distinct towards costa, and the nervures are dotted 

 with white. Secondaries fuscous-grey, darker on outer area. Under 

 surface pale brown suffused with fuscous, especially on the outer 

 margins. 



Expanse 36 millim. 



One male specimen taken in July at Ta-chien-lu. 

 Habitat. Western China. 



725. Falimpsestes brunnea, sp. n. 



Primaries pale fuscous-brown, the basal area greyish ; sub-basal 

 line rather broad, black, with an outward projection below the median 

 nervure ; four blackish, waved, transverse lines, the first curved, the 

 second nearly straight, the third double, the fourth excurved about 

 the middle ; the space between the first and second, and between the 

 third and fourth, brownish ; submarginal line dusky, waved, followed 

 on the costa by an apical, brownish-grey, triangular patch which is 

 outwardly edged with black ; stigmata indistinct, but the inner edge 

 of the reuiform is black. Secondaries and under surface of all the 

 wings fuscous. 



Expanse 50 millim. 



