374 Mr. A. E. Wifgpran on New and Unrecorded Species 
A series of three male and seven female specimens 
taken in August, 1896, at Ohoki, Himi, Komatsu, Ochiai, 
Ofuki and Kumayama, all in the province of Iyo, Shikoku; 
also at Omine-San, Yamato, July, 1894, 
Expanse of series, 18 mm. 7%, to 20 mm. 9. 
An example of this species from Japan was recently 
sent to the British Museum for identification by the 
Washington Museum. 
Allied to P. prodigalis, Leech. 
Local distribution. SHIKOKU; Honpo. 
Habitat. JAPAN. 
Collection number, 15381. 
390. 
Parthenodes sutschana. 
Parthenodes sutschana, Hampson, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 
1900, p. 384; Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1901, 
p. 438. 
One male and eight female specimens taken at Yoshino, 
Yamato, August and September, 1899; at Kagoshima, 
Satsuma, July, 1899; at Suma, near Kobe, Settsu, July, 
1901. 
Hitherto unrecorded from Japan. 
Local distribution. Honpo; Kytsut. 
General distribution. COREA; CENTRAL CHINA ; JAPAN, 
Collection number, 1534. 
Sub-family PYRAUSTINAE. 
Genus AGROTERA. 
Schrank, Fauna Boica, ii. pt. 2, p. 163 (1798); Hampson, 
Fauna Brit. India, Moths, iv, p. 266 (1896). 
391. 
Agrotera posticalis, sp. n. 
‘$6. Head and thorax pale ochreous, the latter marked with 
orange. Forewings purplish brown, basal third pale ochreous 
marked with orange and limited by the black, curved, antemedial 
line ; postmedial line black, slightly sinuous, bent inwards under 
vein 2; a blackish dot in the cell and a blackish lunule at 
outer end of the cell, there are traces of a subbasal line on the 
