Hderocera from China, Jaimn, and Corea. 185 



The primaries of the female are rather paler in colour 

 than those of the male. 



Habitat. Central and Western China. 



4 .5 0. Euprodis piiJerita . 

 Leucoma suhflava, var. piiKvita, Oberth., Etud. d'Entom., v, 

 p. 35 (1880). ... .. 



Porthcsia snelleni, Stand., Kom. sur Lep., iii, p. :iU/, pi. xu, 

 fig. 3 (1887). 

 There were two specimens from Oiwake in Fryer's col- 

 lection, and I have received a long series from Ichang, 

 Chang-yang, Omei-shan, and Chow-pin-sa. Occurs from 



May to July. . . , . r .\ 



There is a good deal of variation in the amount ot the 



dark diffusion of primaries, and in the submarginal spots ; 



these last are not so conspicuous in any of my specimens 



as they are represented in Staudmger's figure ot r. 



snelleni. ^ 



Distribution. Amurland ; Askold ; Japan; <^en- 



TRAL and Western China. 



451. Euprodis intensa. 



Artaxa intensa, Butl., Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., (4) xx 

 p. 402 (1877) ; 111. Typ. Lep. Het., ii, pi. xxiii, fig. 12 

 (1878). 



A fine series from Yokohama and Oiwake in Fryer's 

 collection I obtained the species at Gensan in July, and 

 my native collector met with it at Nikko. A long^ series 

 was received from Moupin, also specimens Irom Ichang, 

 Chang-yang, Chia-kou-ho, and the province of Kwei-chow. 



June and July. . . 



The Japanese specimens are deeper m colour, especially 

 on secondaries, than the Chinese examples, and the central 

 fascia is more clearly defined in the former than m the 

 latter Some specimens in both sets are without the 

 sub-apical black spot, and in others both spots are absent. 



DistribvMon. Japan ; Central and Western China ; 



Corea. 



452. Ewprodis straminea, sp. n. 

 Head and thorax pale yellow, face whitish, palpi fuscous ; abdomen 

 pale fuscous, anal tuft white merging into orange in the male and 

 brown in the female. 



