from China, Japan, and Gorea. 207 



Genus PERICALLIA. 



(Steph. ; Hampson, Fauna Brit. Ind., Moths, iii. p. 223 (1895).) 



Pericallia distans. 

 Hygrochroa distans, Warren, Novit. Zool. ii. p. 143 (1895). 



There was a specimen from Yesso in Fryer's collection. 

 Mr. Smith took a male specimen at Hakone in August, and 

 my native collector obtained one in the island of Kiushiu. 

 I received one female from Omei-shan, taken in July. 



In the Chinese example the transverse line is blacker and 

 more conspicuous than in the Japanese specimens. The 

 Kiushiu specimen is only 32 millim. in expanse. 



Distribution. Japan ; Yesso ; Kiushiu ; Western China. 



P. distans is very close to P. syringaria from Europe, and 

 is possibly only an Asiatic form of that species. It may be 

 referable to P. parva, Hedem.*, from Amurland. 



Pericallia marmorataria, sp. n. (PI. VI. fig. 15.) 



Greyish-white, with a faint pinkish tinge. Basal patch of 

 primaries reddish-grey, clouded with darker and limited by a 

 whitish grey-edged curved line; central line deep brown, 

 acutely angled below costa, slightly curved to first median 

 fork, where it passes through a violet- brown cloud, then 

 oblique to inner margin ; between the central line and the 

 whitish apex of the wing there is a grey-brown patch on 

 costa intersected by a whitish stripe, and from the lower end 

 of this last a thin brown curved line runs to a grey-brown 

 cloud on inner margin. Secondaries are traversed by two 

 brown lines, the outer one very fine and dotted with blackish 

 on the nervules ; beyond, the outer marginal area is clouded 

 and suffused with greyish brown and traversed by a wavy 

 line of the ground-colour. Fringes brown. Under surface : 

 colour as above ; primaries have a brownish basal patch and 

 a diffuse central line, the last is slightly angulated below 

 costa and followed by a brownish patch, which is intersected 

 by a whitish streak that unites with a whitish submarginal 

 line, the lower end of the submarginal line is bordered by a 

 brownish cloud, and there is another cloud of the same colour 

 on the middle of outer margin ; secondaries clouded with 

 brownish at the base, discoidal spot blackish, other markings 

 correspond with those of upperside, but the abdominal por- 

 tion of central line is reddish brown. 



Expanse 40 millim. 



* Horse Soc. Ent. Ross. xvi. p. 45 (1881). 



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