218 Mr. A. E. VWgdeman on New and Unrecorded Species 
Four male specimens taken at Yoshino, province of 
Yamato, in September, 1899, 1900; Nikko, July, 1893 ; 
Tokyo, June, 1894; Yokohama (Manley). 
Unrecorded by Leech from Japan, but recorded by 
Hampson. 
Local distribution. Honpo. 
General distribution. EUROPE; ARMENIA; ASIA MINOR; 
Syria; W. TURKESTAN ; W: and E. SIBERIA; JAPAN. 
Collection number, 955. 
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Acronycta incretata. 
Acronycta increta, Butl., Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (5), i, 
p. 78; 2., Tl. Het. B. M.; ii, p. 12, pl. xliv,. fig. 5 
(1879), nec Morr., 1874; Staud., Cat. Lep. pal., p. 132. 
Acronycta tridens, Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1900, 
p- 101, nee Schiff. 
Acronycta incretata, Hampson, Cat. Lep. Phal., viii, p. 109 
(1909). 
Recorded under évidens, Schiff, by Leech from Japan ; 
referred by Hampson to increta, renamed diacretata. 
Local distribution. Honpbo, Yokohama (Jonas, Pryer). 
General distribution. N. CHINA; COREA; JAPAN. 
Genus ATHETIS. 
Hiibner, Verz., p. 209 (1827); Hampson, Cat. Lep. Phal., 
vill, p. 299 (1909). 
59. 
Athetis (7) lapidea, sp. n. 
g. Antennae ciliated, head and thorax pale greyish brown, abdo- 
men fuscous grey with greyish brown anal tuft. Forewings pale 
greyish brown tinged with pink; antemedial line blackish, irregular, 
indented below the middle ; postmedial line blackish, serrated; a 
black discal dot and a series of black dots on the outer margin; there 
are traces of a dusky central shade and of a submarginal line. 
Hindwings fuscous grey. Underside whitish, glossy, suffused with 
fuscous on the costal areas; forewings have a dusky postmedial line 
and the hindwings a discal dot. 
9. Forewings rather narrower, the central shade and submarginal 
line well defined. 
Expanse 27 mm. 
Male and female types from Yoshino, Yamato, August, 1899. 
