272 Mr. A. E. Wifeman on New and Unrecorded Species 
Female type from Yoshino. 
A series of three male specimens and one female taken 
at Yoshino, Yamato, in July, 1900 and 1901, and at Kiire, 
Satsuma, in July, 1895. 
The series measures in expanse 32 mm. % to 48 mm, &. 
Local distribution. Honpo; Kytsav. 
Halntat. JAPAN. 
Collection number, 230. 
176. 
Huproctis aurata, sp.n. (Plate XXX, fig. 13.) 
¢. Forewings pale yellow with an orange irregular basal patch 
and a central band, the shape of these markings somewhat similar 
to those of HE. subflara, Brem. Hindwings paler than the fore- 
wings. Underside paler than above. 
Expanse 30 mm. 
A male specimen taken at Ishidzuchi-San, Tyo, August, 
1896. 
Local distribution. SHIKOKU. 
Habitat. JAPAN. 
Collection number, 232. 
i WOTES 
Huproctis torasan. 
Artaxa torasan, Holl., Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., xvi, p. 78 
(1889) ; Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1899, p. 140. 
Leech records the description of this species from Japan, 
but had no specimens. One male and one female specimen 
taken at Kumamoto, Higo, in May, 1893, and also in the 
province of Tosa, May, 1893. 
When in Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1900, Professor Holland 
showed me his type of Avrtaxa torasan, which is a male. 
I recognised it as a species which I had captured but not 
named. My male specimen agrees well with Dr. Holland’s 
description, which I berewith append. “ %. Uniformly of 
a bright orange red. The upper surface of the posterior 
wings slightly clouded on the disc by fuscous. A small 
dash of obscure brown on the under surface of primaries 
behind the costal margin of the apex. Expanse of wings, 
22mm. Type from Shirakawa; Uzen, July, 1887.” 
Local distribution. Honpo; Kytsat; SHIKOKU. 
Habitat. JAPAN. 
Collection number, 237. 
