466 Lord Walsingham on Asiatic Toii.'icidre. 



794 (3). Microcorses niarginifasciatits, sp. n. 



Antenncf. and palpi tawny brown. Head and thorax dark 

 tawny brown, tlie lalter brownish cinereous posteriorly. Fore 

 wings brownish cinereous, sliaded and speckled with tawny 

 brown throughout; with some brownish fuscous mottlings along 

 the costa and termen, a faintly indicated sliort brownish fuscous 

 basal patch, an irregular reddish brown blotch or group of 

 spots at the middle of the wing, at the outer edge of which is 

 a small yellowish ochreous spot at the up])er angle of the cell 

 and a darkly mottled narrow reddish brown fasciaform band 

 running parallel with the termen from near the apex to behind 

 the tornus; cilia brownish cinereous. Exp. al. 19 mm. 

 Hind wings pale greyish brown, with a small tuft of brown 

 .«cales covered by a ))ale shining cinereous flap above the 

 base of vein 1 ; cilia pale cinereous. Abdomen jiale greyish 

 brown. Le^/s pale cinereous ; hind tarsal joints banded with 

 pale fuscous. 



Tijpe, S (70592) Mus. Wlsm. 



Hab. Japan {Prijer, 188G). Three specimens. 



CEnectka, Gn. 



752. CEnect.ro. jnlleriana, Schiff. 



(Enectra pilleriana, Stgr. k Wk. Cat. Lp. Eur. 2.39. No. 752 (1871) ' ; 

 Fern. Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. X. 19. No. 88 (1882) \ 



Hah. Europe \ China— Chang Yang, 4000-6000 feet 

 [Pratt, 1886). Japan— //oiVDO—Oi wake [Fryer, 1885). 

 United States — California", Texas ^ 



Leontochroma, gen. nov. 



(A€coi' = a lion ; ;(pa)/ia = colour.) 



Type Leontochroma aurantiacum, Wlsm. 



Antennae ((^) strongly ciliated (not notched). Pa/p« short, 

 projecting less than the length of the head beyond it, closely 

 clothed, terminal joint exposed, rather short. Head mode- 

 rately rough. Thorax smooth, or slightly tufted posteriorly. 

 Fore wings elongate, narrow at the base, widened outwards ; 

 costa gently arched towards the base ; (^ with a short and 

 very narrow costal fold at the base (easily overlooked) ; apex 

 slightly produced ; termen slightly excavate below the apex, 

 scarcely oblique ; tornus rounded ; dorsum straight. Neura- 

 tion, 12 veins ; 3 and 4 stalked ; 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to the 

 termen. Hind loinys rather triangular, slightly excavate 



