20 Mr. J. H. Leech on 



728. Brachf/xanthia peculiaris. 



Bracliyxantliia 2)ectcliaris, But!., Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 

 (5) i, p. 1G9 (1878); 111. Typ. Lep. Het.,ii, p. 81, pi. 

 XXX, fig. 11 (1878). 



Xanthia zcLotypa, Ld. (var. ?) ; Stand., Roni. sur Lep., vi, 

 p. 511 (1892). 



This species has been recorded from Hakodate, Yoko- 

 hama, and Tokio, but I have not received any examples 

 of it from Japan. 



Distribution. Altai; Amurland ; Japan; Yesso. 



Genus Gortyna. 

 Ochsenheimer, Syst. Gloss. Schmett. Eur., iv 



729. U-ortyna ochracca. 



Noctua ochracca, Hlibn,, Beitr., i, pi. 2, m (1786). 

 Goi'tyna Jlavago, Treit, Schmett., v, 2, p. 335. 

 Ochria fortis, Butl , Ann. and ]\Iag. Nat. Hist., (5) i, p. 83 

 (1878); 111. Typ. Lep. Het., ii, pi. xxviii.fig. 9 (1878). 

 Ochria ochracca, Leech, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1889, p. 485. 



The specimens in Fryer's collection were from Yokohama. 

 I have also examples from Oiwake and Hakodate, taken 

 in August and September. 



The secondaries are darker, but otherwise var. /or/^i's does 

 not differ in any important character and hardly seems to 

 be worthy of even a varietal name. Staudinger, chiefl.y 

 on the strength of the white basal spot, considers fortis to 

 be a distinct species. Examination of a good series, like 

 my own, shows that this spot is sometimes almost invisible. 

 He further adds that this particular character is never 

 observed in ochracca ; I shall be happy to show him speci- 

 mens of ochracca in my own collection in which the spot is 

 distinctly present although perhaps not so white in colour. 

 I may remark that in Hyclroccia leucographa, Bork., placed 

 immediately before ochracca in Staudinger's " Catalog," a 

 similar basal spot may be present or absent. 



DistriUttion. Europe. — Amurland ; Japan ; Yesso. 



730. Gortyna cdcntata. 



Gortyna cdcntata, Leech, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1889, p. 

 485, pi. li, fig. 9. 



