Heterocerous Lepidoptera from Japan. 185 
line ; fringe white, spotted with brown; thorax greyish 
white ; tegule transversely banded with blackish ; abdo- 
men shining grey, with faint brownish reflections ; wings 
below with the basal area broadly whity brown, shining 
with faint golden reflections; primaries with the ex- 
ternal three-fifths, excepting part of the costal border, 
an elongated spot beyond the cell, a spot at external 
angle, and a streak on the interno-median interspace, 
greyish, with faint golden reflections; an interrupted 
marginal blackish line; fringe dark grey, spotted with 
white ; secondaries with the external third, excepting 
towards anal angle, greyish brown, with faint golden 
reflections, limited internally by an irregularly dentate- 
sinuate dark grey line; a small blackish spot at the end 
of the cell, and above it a greyish squamose spot ; body 
below sordid white; legs banded with grey ; expanse of 
wings, 1 inch 10 lines. 
Tokei (Fenton). 
66. Aplectoides caliginea, Nn. 8. 
Primaries above shining slaty grey, crossed by brownish 
bordered velvety black lines, similar to those of A. nitzda ; 
external border pale brown, with a submarginal series of 
* black spots across it; orbicular and reniform spots as in 
A. nitida; a similar pale patch immediately beyond the 
reniform spot, but brownish, as in the dark variety of 
that species ; costal margin at apex and fringe pale rust- 
red, the latter spotted below the middle with grey ; 
secondaries paler, and with more golden reflections than 
in A. nitida, otherwise similar; thorax grey, barred 
with black; abdomen pale brown, with dorsal black 
spots at the base; anal segment dark grey, with a 
basal black band ; under surface greyer than in A. nitida, 
but otherwise similar; expanse of wings, 1 inch 7—8 
lines. 
Tokei (Fenton). 
This species is wonderfully similar to the scarce 
melanistic form of the much larger A. nitida (Ill. Typ. 
Lep. Het. 8, pl. xlv. fig. 1); it is, however, clearly a 
perfectly distinct species. 
