Heterocerous Lepidoptera from Japan. 589 
AAGERIIDA. 
159. Sphecia rhynchiotides, n. s. 
Aspect of Rhynchium brunneum (an East Indian wasp) ; 
wings asin S. dasypodiformis, hyaline yellowish white ; 
the veins and costa black, on the primaries with slender 
longitudinal red lines; the disco-cellulars of primaries 
red externally ; internervular folds and a marginal series 
of spots continuous with them golden buff; fringe brown ; 
secondaries with the fringe brown, spotted with white ; 
head orange, subopaline, with black posterior margin ; 
antennz black, reddish at the tips; anterior half of 
thorax and tegule clothed with long appressed ochreous 
hair; collar and back of thorax purplish black, almost 
crossed behind by a transverse orange stripe ; a second 
orange stripe along the posterior edge of the metathorax ; 
abdomen with the two basal segments black, edged behind 
with orange, the three following segments dark orange 
edged with black, penultimate segment wholly orange ; 
legs black, banded with dull ochreous ; wings below with 
the veins and borders (excepting the costal border 
of primaries, which is purplish black) dull golden; 
fringe of secondaries purplish black; body below blackish, 
with lateral ochreous spots; expanse of wings, 1 inch 
4 lines. 
Tokei (Fenton). 
This is one of the best imitations of a wasp that I 
have seen; when seen in profile the conjunction of 
the black collar with the ordinarily-formed blackish eye 
of the moth accurately copies the more elongated eye of 
the wasp. 
GALLERIIDA. 
CATAPROSOPUS, N. g. 
Allied to Lamacha and Murgisca; wings ample, 
geometriform, with obtusely angulated outer margins ; 
secondaries with the apex prominent; costal vein of 
primaries below with a long fringe almost covering the 
discoidal cell; body moderately robust; palpi long and 
deflexed, tufted at the base, divergent; antenne simple, 
rather short; genitalia prominent, 
