Heterocerous Lepidoptera from Japan. 583 
form a triangle only separated by a slender Y-shaped 
black character; immediately beyond is a rather broad 
dentated black-edged grey band, its outer edging im- 
perfect and formed by the confluence of a series of conical 
black spots edged externally with white ; external area 
greyish olivaceous, inclining to reddish internally ; 
fringe as in the primaries; body above grey; wings 
below altogether paler, greyer, irrorated with white, 
the markings ill-defined ; a slender black marginal line, 
disco-cellulars indicated in black ; body whitish ; expanse 
of wings, 1 inch 1 line. 
Yokohama (H. Pryer). 
Most nearly allied to H. athemonalis and . porphyrea. 
148. Olybama japonica, 0. 8. 
General aspect of O. thelephusalis; primaries above 
lilacine grey ; basal half of costal border marked with 
three equidistant black spots, between the third of which 
and the inner margin is a broad diffused blackish brown 
band ; a subapical white-edged zigzag blackish line from 
costal margin to upper radial vein; a black spot on 
inner margin close to external angle ; a marginal series 
of black dots; fringe grey, with « slender white basal 
line; secondaries pale brownish grey; an externally 
white-edged diffused grey streak from anal angle to the 
middle of the disc ; a slender black marginal line ; fringe 
as in primaries ; thorax lilacine grey ; abdomen whitish, 
crossed by grey bands; under surface of wings pale 
sericeous-grey ; a marginal series of black dots; fringe 
white ; primaries with a grey-edged creamy costal patch 
towards apex ; secondaries, when seen with a lens, white, 
minutely irrorated with grey ; a black lunule at the end 
of the cell; an externo-discal series of subconfluent grey 
spots ; body below sordid white ; tarsi dark grey, banded 
with cream colour; expanse of wings, 11 lines. 
Tokei (Fenton). 
149. Meranda inconspicua, n. 8. 
Primaries above pale chocolate-colour ; costal margin 
dotted with white; an oblique brown-edged whitish line 
from basal two-fifths of inner margin to the end of the 
cell, where there is an irregular slaty grey spot ; a second 
