Heterocerous Lepidoptera from Japan. 415 
rupted by the median branches, which are broadly white, 
enclosing a large rounded black spot at the end of the 
cell, and a small ferruginous spot at its outer edge near 
the costa; disc striated with grey; a submarginal 
abbreviated grey bar, edged externally with four unequal 
rounded black spots opposite to the centre of the outer 
margin; a blackish marginal line; fringe spotted with 
blackish; secondaries crossed by two angulated tri- 
coloured lines of black, white, and dull testaceous ; 
two black spots near the base, and two larger spots just 
beyond the cell; a broad increasing streak of plum- 
bageous grey from the base below the cell to the outer 
margin; a testaceous spot marked with black just above 
the middle of the disc; a testaceous marginal stripe, 
edged internally with black between the tails; fringe 
streaked with black ; antenne testaceous below; abdomen 
brown, banded with white ; under surface white, prima- 
ries and legs brownish, all the wings with black disco- 
cellulars and black-spotted fringe; expanse of wings, 
9 lines. 
Yokohama (H. Pryer). 
119. Erosia schidacina, n. 8. 
Structure of Hrosia, but general coloration and pattern 
of Schidax squammaria; primaries above silvery grey ; 
costal margin speckled with black; a falciform black 
line, edged externally with testaceous, across the disc, 
its lower third enclosed by a black patch at external 
angle, which also encloses two plumbageous spots ; 
external border narrowly golden testaceous, bounded 
internally by a series of black dots; fringe black, with a 
slender silvery basal line; secondaries golden, trans- 
versely striped with black, most densely in a subbasal 
belt, which does not, however, cross the lower half of 
the cell; a tricoloured angulated discal stripe of black, 
yellow, and brown, followed immediately by a plum- 
bageous stripe, which widens into a band below the 
third median branch; base silvery; subapical area 
blackish brown; external border and fringe as in 
primaries ; under surface pale greyish brown, flecked 
with black; expanse of wings, 1 inch. 
Tokei (Fenton) ; Hakodate (Whiteley). 
The example obtained by Mr. Whiteley, having been 
