of Lepidoptera Heterocera from Japan. 281 
Four male and three female specimens taken at Tobetsu, 
Oshima province, Yezo, in August, 1902. 
The type (female) of Butler from Hakodate and a speci- 
men from Ichang, Central China, are named “ flavescens” 
in the National Collection. There is, however, apparently 
no species which has been described by Butler from Japan 
under the name /lavescens, and the description given 
by Butler for flavida agrees exactly with the specimens 
labelled flavescens. | 
Local distribution. YEZO. 
General distribution. CENTRAL CHINA (Ichang); 
WESTERN CHINA (Omei-shan, Wa-ssu-kow); JAPAN. 
Genus POLYPLOCA. 
Hiibner, Verz., p. 273 (1827); Hampson, Fauna Brit. 
India, Moths, i, p. 182 (1892). 
189. 
Polyploca albicostata. 
Cymatophora albicostata, Brem. Lep. Ost.-Sib., p. 47, pl. v., 
fig. 6 (1864). 
Polyploca albiscostata, Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1900, 
p Le 
Two male specimens, one taken at Tobetsu, Oshima, in 
July, 1902, and the other received from Mr. Andrews, 
Hakodate. 
Hitherto unrecorded from Japan. 
Local distribution. YEZO. 
General distribution. E. SipERIA (Amurland, Ussuri); 
CoREA; WESTERN CHINA; JAPAN. 
Collection number, 812. 
Genus NEMACEROTA. 
Hampson, Fauna Brit. India, Moths, i, p. 185 (1892). 
190. 
Nemacerota umbrosa, sp. 0. 
¢. Forewings dark fuscous grey on basal and outer thirds, median 
area pale brownish dusted with darker ; discal dot blackish, followed 
by a transverse fuscous shade; the outer limit of basal third is diffuse 
and the outer third is traversed by a pale line originating in a 
