of Lepidoptera Heterocera from Japan. 198 
A series of thirteen specimens taken at Yoshino, 
Yamato, in June, July, August, September, October, 1899, 
1900, and one specimen at Shioya, near Kobe, July, 1901. 
Hitherto unrecorded from Japan. 
Local distribution. Honpo; June to October. 
General distribution. EurRoPE; W. AFrica; MapDa- 
GASCAR; Syria; INDIA; SIKHIM; BurRMA; BoRNEO; 
CELEBES ; NEW GUINEA; AUSTRALIA; TONGA; FoRMosA; 
N.E. Cuina (Shanghai); JAPAN. 
Collection numbers, 344, 345, 347, 348. 
Genus DIALITHOPTERA. 
Hampson, Cat. Lep. Phal., 11, p. 50 (1900). 
2 
oO. 
Dialithoptera stellata, sp.n. (Plate XXX, fig. 26.) 
¢. Head and thorax whitish, abdomen slightly darker. Fore- 
wings silky, white faintly tinged with ochreous towards the base, 
brownish along the costa, and on the area beyond the post-medial 
line ; post-medial line black, curved and recurved ; submarginal 
line whitish, sinuous; marginal line brown; the transverse line 
powdered with metallic blue atoms as also is a tuft of black scales at 
outer end of the cell; fringes dark grey mixed with paler and 
marked with whitish at ends of the nervules. Hindwings fuscous, 
paler towards the base; fringes pale grey mixed with darker. 
Under surface fuscous, whitish along the inner margin of the 
forewings and the basal area of the hindwings. 
Expanse 26 mm. 
Male type from Nikko, taken in August, 1895. 
Local distribution. HoNnpo. 
Habitat. JAPAN. 
Seems to be allied to D. gemmata, Hampson, from 
Sikhim. 
Collection number, 342. 
Genus AGYLLA. 
Walker, Cat. Lep. Het., ii, p. 552 (1854); Hampson, 
Cat. Lep. Phal., ii, p. 212. 
