608 Mr. J. H. Leech on 



One male specimen from Wa-ssu-kovv taken in June. 

 Habitat. Western China. 



1412. Zethes magna, sp. n. 



Primaries lilacine-grey irrorated and cloiided with dark brown ; 

 sub-basal and antemedial lines dark velvety-brown, the first extend- 

 ing only from the costa to the subcostal nervure, the second diffuse 

 and highly angled about the middle ; postmedial line dark brown, 

 broad and velvety towards the cost;i, outwardly elbowed beyond the 

 cell tbence inwardly oblique to the inner margin ; reniform and 

 orbicidar stigmata tinged with ochreous, the former with a dark 

 brown lunule upon it and placed in the angle of a dark velvety 

 brown shade which extends from the costa to the angle of the ante- 

 medial line ; the area beyond the postmedial line is paler, almost 

 whitish towards cos'a, and is clouded witli brown below the angle of 

 the outer margin ; subniarginal line dark brown edged with whitish, 

 wavy, outwardly oblique to vein 6 thence inwardly oblique to inner 

 margin. Secondaries of the same ground-colour as the jmmaries but 

 more heavily irrorated and suffused with brown ; three dark brown 

 transverse lines, the first bisects a large ochreous discal spot, the 

 second is outwardly oblique from the costa to the cell where it curves 

 inwards thence wavy to inner margin, tlie third is arched and 

 double. Fringes darker than the ground-cohiur preceded by a dark 

 brown line. Under surface fuscous-brown : primaries have the 

 costal area whitish and a large dark velvety brown patch, inwardly 

 edged with whitish, at the apex ; stigmata whitish, the reniform with 

 a fuscous lunule ; a whitish patch at the base of the inner margin ; 

 postmedial line dark fuscous, nearly straight, edged outwardly with 

 whitish : secondaries have a pale ochreous discal spot bisected by a 

 brown bar and preceded by a dusky transverse shade ; postmedial 

 and subniarginal lines dark fuscous outwardly edged with whitish. 



Expanse (J 62 millim., 5 65 millim. 



One male specimen from Moupin and one female from 

 Ichang. June or July. 



Halitat. Central and Western China. 



1413. Zcthcs musculus. 



Zethes musculus, Men., Bull. Acad. Petr., iii, j). 110. 



Fryer's specimens were from Yokohama and Oiwake, 

 and 1 obtained examples nt Gensan in July. 

 Distribution. Amurland ; Japan ; Corea. 



