282 Mr. A. E. @Mleman on New and Unrecorded Species 
whitish apical mark, the internal edge of the outer third is marked 
with whitish on the costal area. Hindwings fuscous with traces of a 
paler medial band. Underside pale fuscous ; forewings with a post- 
medial band, and hindwings with a medial band, paler. 
Expanse 34 mm. 
Male type from Junsai Numa, Oshima, July, 1902. 
Local distribution. YEzO. 
Habitat. JAPAN. 
Collection number, 997. 
Genus PALIMPSESTES. 
Hiibner, Verz., p. 273 (1827). 
TOT. 
Palimpsestes wndosa, sp. n. (Plate XXX, fig. 20.) 
?. Head and collar brown, thorax brown mixed with grey ; 
abdomen fuscous grey. Forewings greyish-white suffused with 
brownish except on the costal area, black subbasal line ; antemedial 
band greyish brown, broad, traversed by a double curved black 
line, preceded by a black wavy line which becomes indistinct towards 
the costa, and followed by a double, sinuous, black line ; postmedial 
line black, crenulate, slightly curved ; submarginal line pale, a 
brownish spot at its costal extremity, and a short blackish dash from 
it to the apex of the wing ; discal mark black, linear; fringes grey 
tinged with golden brown at their base and preceded by a brown 
line. Hindwings pale fuscous, fringes paler. Underside pale fuscous, 
indications of a curved postmedial line on the forewings and of two 
curved lines on the hindwings. 
Expanse 40 mm. 
Female type from Dorokawa, Yamato, August, 1894. 
The specimen figured by Oberthiir (Etud. d’Ent., v, pl. 11, 
fig. 2) as C2 ymatophor a ampliata, Butl., is probably referable 
to the species now described, which differs from Butler’s 
species in the transverse lines. 
Local distribution. Honpbo. 
Habitat. JAPAN. 
Collection number, 8038. 
192. 
Palimpsestes basalis, sp. n. (Plate XXX, fig. 24.) 
Q. Head and thorax brown, edges of patagia darker. Forewing 
whitish grey, tinged with fuscous on outer third’;«basal area, limited 
