156 Mr. J. H. Leech on 



There were specimens from Yokohama in Pryor's collec- 

 tion. I obtained the species at Tsuruga and at Fiishiki 

 in July. 



Habitat. Japan. 



Genus Metachrostis. 



Hlibn.; Hampson, Fauna Brit. Ind., Moths, ii, p. 825 



(1894). 



1128. Metachrostis ]iunctigera. 



Ozarha punctiqera, Walk., Cat. Lep. Het., Suppl., ii, p. 685 



(1865). 

 Metachrostis punctigera, Hampson, Fauna Brit. Ind., Moths, 



ii, p. 829 (1894). 



Fryer's specimens were from Yokohama. I obtained 

 the species in Satsuma in May ; Mr. Andrews took examples 

 at Hakodate in August, and my native collector at Gensan 

 in the same month, and also in the island of Kiushiu. 



Distribution. DharmsIla ; throughout the Bombay and 

 Madras Presidencies ; Australia {Hampson) ; Japan ; 

 Yesso ; Kiushiu ; Corea. 



1129. Metachrostis chinensis, sp. n. 



Primaries pale olive-brown, tinged with pinkish on tlie disc and 

 with darker at the base ; a blackish oblique line from inner margin 

 near base extending to median nervure ; a blackish oblique band 

 from just before the middle of inner margin to costa near apex ; 

 orbicular and reniform outlined in ground colour, the latter stigma 

 with a somewhat similar mark above ; submarginal band, dusky, 

 attenuated towards the costa ; fringes of the ground colour marked 

 with blackish except at apex and outer angle, preceded by a blackish 

 line. Secondaries fuscous, fringes preceded by a darker line. Under 

 surface pale brown : primaries suffused with fuscous on disc, a pale 

 brown spot on costa bej^ond the middle. 



Expanse 18 millim. 



One example of each sex taken at Ship-y-shan in 

 September. 



Habitat. CENTRAL China. 



1180. Metachrostis noloides. 



Acontia noloides, Butl., Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., (5) iv, 

 p. 366 (1879). 



