Heterocerous Lepidoptera from Japan. 419 
palpi, and coxe clay-coloured; wings grey, washed with 
pale rosy cupreous ; apical area of primaries ochraceous ; 
expanse of wings, 1 inch. 
Tokei (Fenton). 
Nearest to O. costimaculata, Moore, from Darjiling. 
127. Nadagara* flaviceps, n.s. 
Pale glossy pinky brown, mottled all over with small 
greyish dashes; primaries above with a small linear 
black disco-cellular dot; secondaries crossed just before 
the middle by a straight grey line; head, palpi, and 
collar bright yellow; under surface more pearly than 
the upper, the grey mottling darker, but the line across 
the secondaries very indistinct; discoidal area of pri- 
maries and basal half of costal border ochraceous ; front 
of pectus yellowish ; expanse of wings, 1 inch 8 lines. 
Tokei (Fenton). 
ZERENIDAs. 
METaBRaXxas, Nn. g. 
Intermediate in appearance between Abraxas and 
Icterodes, but the primaries rather more elongated than 
in either; the antenne of the males as broad as in 
Icterodes, but fringed with small pencils of hair instead 
of pectinated. Type M. clerica. 
128. Metabraxas clerica, n.s. 
Allied to ‘‘ Abraxas ”’ elegans and “‘ Abraxas” giraffata ; 
wings above snow-white, spotted with smoky grey, the 
spots having darker centres ; arrangement of spots nearly 
as in Icterodes fraterna,t but the disco-cellular spot of 
the primaries free, as in J. jaguaria, and the two subbasal 
series of spots well separated ; the base of the primaries 
rather broadly ochreous ; the spots on the external area 
for the most part confluent, so as to form almost a com- 
plete external border, those of the secondaries less 
perfectly confluent, arranged in three alternating series ; 
body pale buff, with two longitudinal series of black spots ; 
* Although placed here by Walker, the genus Nadagara seems 
to me to be more nearly allied to Apicia and Gynopteryx than to 
any genus of Fidoniide. 
+ Ill. Typ. Lep. Het. ii. pl. xxxvii. fig. 9. 
