454 Lord Walsingbam on Asiatic Tortricidae. 



cinereous, with a dark shade along their basal half. Abdomen 

 brownish fuscous. Legs whitish ochreous, slightly shaded 

 with brownish fuscous. 



Ti/pe, c? (60256, Chang Yang) Mus. Wlsm. 



Hub. China — Chang Yang {Pratt). Japan — Yesso 

 {Pryer, 1882). Two specimens. 



727 (4). Tortrix Leechi^ sp. n. 



Antennce pale canary-yellow, not annulated, but shaded 

 with brownish beneath. Palpi projecting about tfie length 

 of the head beyond it, median joint with projecting scales 

 above and beneath (more closely packed than in Christophnna)^ 

 terminal joint very short, exposed ; pale canary-yellow. 

 Head and thorax pale canary -yellow. Fore loiwjs pale canary- 

 yellow, with a yellowish-brown shade at the base, often 

 running through the middle of the wing above the fold and 

 overspreading the apical half with the exception of the apex 

 and termen ; at the base, on the brown sliade, is a shining 

 rosy-grey metallic band ; a rather broad, slightly oblique 

 fascia of a similar metallic hue crosses from the costa, within 

 the basal third, to before the middle of the dorsum, sometimes 

 terminated on reaching the fold ; another fascia of the same 

 colour from beyond the middle of the costa nearly reaches the 

 tornus, this is somewhat sinuate on its inner side ; before the 

 termen is a narrower band of the same colour, usually en- 

 closing the outer edge of the dark shade, and reaching from 

 the costa before the apex to the termen above the tornus; 

 between this outer shining band and the shining fascia which 

 precedes it is a series of about four minute black dots of raised 

 scales on the outer half of the' dark shade, two above and two 

 below the middle of the wirig; in some specimens there is 

 also a spot of raised blackish scales at the outer third of the 

 fold ; cilia pale canary-yellow, touched with brownish at the 

 tornus. ^a?jo. a/. 17-18 mm. Hind wing s hxo"^ \\\'&\\ i\\s,Q,Q\x's,; 

 cilia on their outer half whitish cinereous. Abdomen greyish 

 brown, anal tuft ochreous. Legs whitish ochreous. 



Type, ? (60255, Yokohama); $ (70429, Yesso) Mus. 

 Wlsm. 



Bob. Japan — Ybsbo {Pryer, 1882). Hondo — Yokohama 

 (Manley, 1888). Coeea— Gensan, VI. 1886 (Leech). Five 

 specimens. 



A pale variety from Gensan (60031, ? ) is almost entirely 

 without the brown shading, and is pale canary-yellow, with 

 the metallic fascise of a more rosy pink, due to the absence of 

 brown scales. The same variation of colouring occurs iu the 



