Hctcrocera from China, Jajjan, and Gorea. 619 



beyond the postmedial line and the outer margin much less powdered 

 with l:)rown ; marginal line blackish, lumilate'; discal lunule blackish. 

 Secondaries fuscous-grey with a dark-edged whitish ciirved sub- 

 marginal line. Fringes brown chequered with whitish and preceded 

 by a brown line. Under surface of primaries pale cupreous-brown, 

 whitish-grey on the costa and at apex ; there is a fuscous postmedial 

 line, excurved beyond the cell ; submarginal line formed of whitish 

 dots edged with blackish towards the costa : secondaries greyish 

 suffused and powdered witli brown, a darker discal mark and two 

 dentate transverse lines, the outer line outwardly edged with whitisli, 

 the dentations between veins 5 and 6 most pronounced. 

 Expanse 40 millim. 



Two males from Omei-shan. Taken in June or July. 

 HaUtat. Western China. 



Genus Bleptina. 



Guen. ; Hampson, Fauna Brit. Tnd., Motlis, iii, p. 41 

 (1895). 



1444, Bleptina alhovenata, sp. n. 



Primaries fuliginous-brown with white markings ; ante- and 

 jiostmedial lines oblique, the latter sometimes slightly excurved 

 about the middle ; median nervure and branches to just beyond the 

 postmedial line, and also the discocelhilars, white ; reniform stigma 

 indicated by two black dots ; orbicular stigma black surrounded 

 with whitish ; submarginal line whitish but indistinct as a rule. 

 Secondaries fuscous with an incomplete 'postmedial line and indica- 

 tions of a pale submarginal line. Under surface : primaries fuscous, 

 darker on the outer marginal area ; an obscure discal dot and post- 

 medial line ; secondaries whitish powdered with brownish on the 

 basal tAVO-tldrds, outer third fuscous-brown ; discal spot black with a 

 dot of the same colour before it ; beyond these there are two obscure, 

 wavy, transverse lines, each terminating in a dark spot before the 

 abdominal margin. 



Expanse 34 millim. 



Fourteen specimens, including both sexes, from Chia- 

 kou-ho, one example each from Moupin, Ni-tou, and 

 Wa-shan. 



HaUtat. Western China, 



1445. Bleptina loroxima, sp. n. 



Primaries fuscous-brown ; ante- and postmedial lines paler ; stig- 

 mata blackish but obscure ; submarginal line only distinct towards 



