Hdcroccra from China, Japan, and Corca. S3 



I have specimens from Yokohama, Nikko, Hakodate, 

 and Gensan. Alpheraky records the muscosa form from 

 the province of Setchouen. Occurs in July and August. 



Distribution. Japan; Yesso; Corea ; Western China. 



768. Agrotis (?) cissigma. 



Noctna cissigma, Men., Schr. Reis. Amur., ii, p. 58, pi. iv, 



fig. 9 (1859). 

 Agrotis umbra, Staud., Rom. sur Lep., vi, p. 411 (1892). 



Staudinger records this species from Corea. 

 Distribution. Amurland; Corea. 



7G9. Agrotis (?) 2^icturata, sp. n. 



Head and thorax whitish-ochreous, collar brown. Primaries 

 ochreous-brown ; sub-basal band ferruginous, shaded externally 

 with whitish, commencing in a black spot on the costa ; ante- and 

 postmedial lines black, interrupted, indistinct ; submarginal line 

 ferruginous, interrupted abont the middle, commencing in a darker 

 triangle on the costa, shaded inwardly with whitish ,• there is a 

 ferruginous patch at the outer angle and a smaller one about the 

 middle of the outer margin ; reniform stigma whitish, ill-defined ; 

 orbicular stigma of the ground colour centred witla ferruginous, a 

 conspicuous black spot between the stigmata extending to the costa ; 

 the apices of the wings are rather paler ; fringes variegated with 

 ferruginous and lilack, preceded by a series of lilack dots. Secondaries 

 whity-brown suffused wiih fuscous on basal two-thirds ; submarginal 

 band and discal mark fuscous : primaries have the costal area and a 

 portion of the central area suffused with dark brown ; discal mark 

 annulated, conspicuous ; postmedial and antemarginal lines dark 

 brown : secondaries have the costal area suffused with dark brown 

 almost to the outer margin, interrupted by a transverse line. 



Expanse 28-30 millim. 



Two male specimens and one female from Chia-koii-ho, 

 one male from Huang-mu-chang. July. 

 Habitat. Western China. 



770. Agrotis (?) panda, sp. n. 



Head and thorax brown ; abdomen pale fuscous-brown ; antennse 

 serrate-fasciculate. Primaries brownish, with a faint violet tinge ; 

 sub-basal line darker brown, its lower end uniting with a cuneiform, 

 velvety, brown spot, which is edged above with whitisli ; antemedial 

 line brown, oblique to below the middle thence forming a W to inner 

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