586 Mr. J. H. Leecli on 



The Japanese specimens in my collection are rather 

 paler, especially on the secondaries, than European ex- 

 amples ; the metallic spots may or may not be confluent, 

 and the fringes of secondaries are not pinkish-brown as in 

 typical examples. This form may agree with that which 

 Staudinger refers to as •p'^'^inami, Grote, Sind fcstata, Graeser 

 (Rom. sur Lep., vi, p. 548). 



DislribvMon. Europe. — Amurland ; Japan ; North 

 America. 



1355. Plusia tdragona. 



Plusia Utrarjona, Walk., Cat. Lep. Het., xii, p. 932 (1<S57) ; 



Hampson, Fauna Brit. Ind., Moths, ii, p. 574 (1894). 

 Plusia 2Ji(''issi)))a, Butl., Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., (5) i, p. 



202 (1878) ; 111. Typ. Lep. Het., ii, p. 35, pi. xxxi, 

 fig. 11 (1878). 



The specimens in Fryer's collection were from Yoko- 

 hama. Purisswia was described from Tokio, I took an 

 example at Nagasaki in May and one at Geusan in July, 

 and I have received the species from Chang-yang, Ship-y- 

 shan, Moupin, Ta-chien-lu, Omei-shan, Huang-mu-chang, 

 and the province of Kwei-chovv. 



Distrihution. Dharmsala ; KuLU {Hamfson) ; JAPAN ; 

 KiusHiu ; CoREA ; Central and Western China. 



1356. Plusia sijlcncUda. 



Deva splendida, Butl., Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., (5) i, p. 



203 (1878); III. Typ. Lop. Het., iii, p. 23, pi. xlvi, 

 fig. 8 (1879). 



Plusia intracta, Stand., Stett. ent. Zeit., 1888, p. 262 ; 

 Rom. sur Lep., vi, p. 537, pi. x, fig. 8 (1892). 



The specimens in Fryer's collection were from Nikko 

 and Yesso ; Butler's type was from Hakodate. 

 Distribution. Japan ; Yesso ; Amurland. 



1357. Plusia liampsoni, sp. n. 



Priniarie.s pale violet-grey, in certain lights, with a bra.ssy 

 sheen most conspicuous on the lower half of median third and 

 on the outer marginal area ; basal area traversed by olivaceous-grey 

 wavy bands ; anteniedial line whitish, slightly angled on submedian 

 nervure and more strongly so below the cell, not clearly defined on 

 the costal area ; postmedial line lilacine, curved and recurved, edged 



