Heterocera from China, Japan, and Corea, 355 
Z. multistrigata, Moore, is very closely allied to Z. lewco- 
notum if it is not specifically identical with it. 
Distribution, JAPAN ; WESTERN CHINA. 
Genus PHRAGMATCCIA. 
Newm., Zoologist, vii, p. 2931 (1850). 
278. Phragmatacia castanex. 
Bombyx castanex, Hiibn.; Esp., Schmett., p. 94, pl. xciv, 
figs. 1, 2 (1807). 
Bombyx arundinis, Hibn., Bomb., pl. xlvii, figs. 200, 201 
(1803). 
Zcuzera innotata, Walk., Cat. Lep. Het., xxxu, p. 587 
(1865). 
Phragmatecia castanex, Hampson, Fauna Brit. Ind., 
Moths, i, p. 313 (1892); Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het., p. 876 
(1892), 
Phragmatacia castanex, Hb., var. pygmea, Graes, Staud., 
Rom. sur Lép., vi, p. 293 (1892). 
Occurs in July and August at Yokohama and Hako- 
date. 
Distribution. EUROPE.—AMURLAND; JAPAN; YESSO; 
NortH-EAsteRN Cuina; NILGIRIS; AFRICA.—CEYLON. 
— MADAGASCAR. 
Family HEPIALIDZ. 
Genus PHASSUS. 
Walk.; Hampson, Fauna Brit. Ind., Moths, 1, p. 318 
(1892). 
279. Phassus signifer. 
Phassus signifer, Walk., Cat. Lep. Het., vii, p. 1568 (1856) ; 
Butl., Ill. Typ. Lep. Het., v, pl. cix, fig. 2 (1886) ; 
Hampson, Fauna Brit. Ind., Moths, i, p. 820 (1892). 
Phassus sinensis, Moore, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., (4) xx, 
p. 94 (1877). 
Phassus herzi, Fixsen, Rom. sur Lép., iii, p. 335, pl. xv, 
fic. 3 (1887). 
I have examples of this variable species from Yoko- 
