of Lepidoptera Heterocera from Japan. 287 
Female type from Yoshino, Yamato, taken in August, 
1900. 
Local distribution. HOoNpbo. 
Habitat. JAPAN. 
Collection number, 78. 
Genus STAUROPUS. 
Germar, Prod., p. 45 (1811); Hampson, Fauna Brit. India, 
Moths, i, p. 149 (1892). 
199. 
Stauropus bidentatus, sp. n. (Plate XXX, fig. 9.) 
¢. Head and thorax greyish white, collar and patagia edged with 
brownish ; abdomen pale grey. Forewings greyish white with a 
large, bidentate, blackish patch occupying the upper portion of the 
basal half of the wing, the lower edge of the patch is traversed by 
a black longitudinal bar; a smaller blackish patch, enclosing two 
darker dashes, on the costa towards apex; three dentate, grey-edged 
whitish transverse lines, the antemedial only traceable below the 
larger patch; fringe white marked with blackish at ends of the 
nervules and preceded by a blackish, arcuate line. Hindwings 
fuscous grey, fringes white chequered with fuscous. Underside 
whitish, forewings tinged with deep fuscous, except on the inner 
margin ; there are indications of a medial line on all the wings. 
Expanse 35 mm. 
Male type from Yoshino, Yamato, June, 1900. 
A series of twenty male and four female specimens 
taken at Yoshino, Yamato, in May, June, July and August. 
1895, 1899,1900 and 1901. The series shows no variation 
in colour in either sex, and varies i expanse from 30 mm. 
in the male to 38 mm. in the female. 
Local distribution. Honpo. 
Habitat. JAPAN. 
Collection number, 92. 
200. 
Stauropus viridimixta. 
Miselia vividimixta, Brem., Lep. Ost.—Sib., p. 52, pl. v, 
fig. 12 (1864). 
Urodonta viridimiata, Staud., Rom. sur Lép., i, p. 219 
(1887). 
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