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Conistra ardescens ab. purpurea, var, nov. 
(Plate XXXI, fig. 6.) 
Dasycampa ardescens, Butl., Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (5), 
iv, p. 364 (1879). 
Cerastis vaceinii, Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1900, p. 78 
(part), nec Linn. 
Conistra ardescens, Hampson, Cat. Lep. Phal., vi, p. 455, 
pl. evi, fig. 17 (1906). 
Ab. purpurea $. Forewings purplish brown with pale ochreous 
brown stigmata and submarginal band, the latter with black dots 
on it between the veins. Hindwing blackish with reddish brown 
fringes. Under surface reddish grey powdered with black, the fore- 
wings suffused with blackish on the disc; all the wings have a 
blackish postmedial lne and there is a blackish lunule on the 
hindwings. 
Expanse 38 mm. 
A series of seventeen males and two females of purpurea 
were taken at Junsai Numa, Oshima, in May, 1902. In 
other specimens of C. ardescens taken at same time and 
place, the forewings are greyish brown in colour and the 
stigmata and submarginal band hardly paler. 
Local distribution. YEZO. 
Habitat. JAPAN. 
Collection number, 839. 
Genus COSMIA. 
Ochsenheimer, Schmett. Eur., iv, p. 84, non-desc. ; 
Treitschke, Schmett. Eur., v (2), p. 8379 (1825); Hampson, 
Cat. Lep. Phal., vi, p. 497 (1906). 
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Cosmia fulvago ab. asiatica, Hampson 
Noctua fulvago, Linn., Faun. Suec., p. 312 (1761). 
Noctua cerago, Schitf., Wien. Verz., p. 87 (1776); Hiibn., 
Eur. Schmett., Noct., ff. 190, 444-5. 
Xanthia fulvago, Staud., Cat. Lep. pal. p. 208 (1901); 
Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1900, p. 19. 
Noctua flavescens, Esp., Schmett., iv, pl. exxii, fig. 2 (1788). 
Cosmia fulvago, Hampson, Cat. Lep. Phal., vi, p. 502 (1906). 
