354 Mr. A. E. Wiggnan on New and Unrecorded Species 
Sparingly powdered with blackish ‘scales above and below ; a nar- 
rower silvery streak on the costa from the base tothe outer margin ; 
fringes of the ground-colour mixed with silvery. Hindwings silky 
white faintly tinged with pale fuscous on the subcostal area. Under- 
side of forewings fuscous, and of hindwings whitish tinged with 
fuscous on the costal area. 
Expanse 29 mm. 
Somewhat resembles C. simplex, Butl, from New 
Zealand. 
Male type from Yezo (Andrews). 
Local distribution. YZO. 
Habitat. JAPAN. 
Collection number, 1442. 
348, 
Crambus trifidalis, sp. n. 
¢. Forewings brown with whitish costal and medial longitudinal 
streaks ; the first is continued through to the outer margin, and the 
second becomes trifid towards the outer margin ; fringes glossy and 
paler than the ground-colour, preceded by a black line. Hindwings 
whitish diffused with fuscous, except on the fringes. 
Expanse 26 mm. 
Allied to C. trastellus, Fab. 
Male type from Japan (no locality label). Two male 
specimens received from Mr. Andrews, Hakodate. 
Local distribution. YEZO. 
Habitat. JAPAN. 
Collection number, 1445. 
Genus CHILO. 
Zincken, Germar’s Mag. Ent., 11, p. 33 (1817); Hampson, 
Fauna Brit. India, Moths, iv, p. 26 (1896). 
349. 
Chilo gensanellus. 
Chilo gensanellus, Leech, Entom., xxii, p. 108, pl. v, fig. 9 
(1899); Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1901, p. 398. 
Leech refers to specimens of this species from Hako- 
date in the “Entomologist” (supra), but does not give 
