Heterocerous Lepidoptera from Japan. 595 
SUPPLEMENTARY SPECIES. 
LITHOSIIDA. 
170. dAimene minuta, n. 8. 
Smoky grey, with blackish veins ; primaries with a 
small black reniform spot at the end of the cell; a 
broad whitish transverse belt before the middle; vertex 
of head whitish ; under surface of wings uniformly smoky 
grey ; legs whitish internally ; venter whity brown; ex- 
panse of wings, 7 lines. 
Yokohama (H. Pryer). 
ARCTIIDA. 
171. Pharetra leucoptera, n. 8. 
Primaries above nearly asin P. rumicis of Europe ; 
secondaries creamy white, the base suffused with smoky 
brown ; abdominal border brown ; external border broad, 
black-brown, with bronze reflections, its inner edge 
zigzag; a white marginal spot on the interno-median 
interspace ; fringe white, sericeous ; body almost as in 
P. rumicis, but more robust; the thorax grey, streaked 
with black; abdomen smoky brown; primaries below 
greyish brown, the costal border densely irrorated with 
pale buff, and spotted beyond the middle with blackish ; 
a spot at the end of the cell, and the external border 
slightly darker than the ground colour; inner border 
white ; fringe white, speckled with black ; secondaries 
snow-white ; costal area speckled with blackish ; a mar- 
ginal blackish border nearly as above ; fringe white ; 
body sordid white; tarsi black, banded with white ; 
expanse of wings, 1 inch 10 lines. 
Yokohama (H. Pryer). 
Apparently allied to ‘‘ Acronycta” lutea of Bremer. 
LIMACODIDA. 
172. Aphendala sericea, n. 8. 
Pale sordid sandy brown or stone-colour, sericeous ; 
primaries crossed in the middle by a very slightly angu- 
lated oblique blackish line, which unites close to costa 
with a widely-arched discal line running to the first 
median branch, where it turns abruptly inwards for a 
