of Lepidoptera Heterocera from Japan. 325 
wings fuscous, fringes white marked with blackish. Underside pale 
fuscous, the forewings tinged with ochreous. 
Expanse 30 mm. 
Male type from Ohoki, Iyo, May, 1896. 
Local distribution. SHIKOKU. 
Habitat. JAPAN. 
Collection number, 623. 
278. 
Cidaria postalbida, sp. n. 
¢g. Antennae finely ciliated. Forewings greyish brown tinged 
with fulvous; subbasal line blackish outwardly edged with whitish, 
angled below the costa; antemedial and postmedial lines blackish, 
the former outwardly oblique to median nervure, thence incurved to 
inner margin, the latter outwardly oblique from the costa, where it 
is edged with whitish, excurved beyond the cell thence wavy to the 
inner margin; submarginal line blackish outwardly edged with 
white, crenulate and parallel with the outer margin except towards 
the costa; discal mark black, linear, a black interrupted longitudinal 
streak on the middle third of inner margin, and some black inter- 
nervular streaks on the outer margin below the apex. Hindwings 
whitish, discal dot black. Under surface whitish, forewings tinged 
with fuscous, an obscure discal mark and traces of postmedial and 
submarginal lines. 
Expanse 34 mm, 
The female is of a deeper colour and larger than the 
male, and the black longitudinal streak on the inner margin 
is more conspicuous. 
Expanse of series, 30 mm. 7, 36 mm. ? 
Resembles some forms of Larentia comis, Butl. 
Male type from Tokyo, April, 1895. 
A series of eleven specimens, two males and nine 
females, taken at the following localities: Tokyo, April, 
May and October, 1893, 1894, 1895; Yoshino, Yamato, 
May, 1901, October, 1900; Kobe, November, 1900; 
Dorokawa, Yamato, July, 1894; Hakodate, July, 1902. 
From the preceding dates it would appear that there 
are two broods in the year. 
Local distribution. Honpo; YEzo. 
Habitat. JAPAN. 
Collection number, 644. 
