234 Mr. J. H. Leech on Lepidoptera Heterocera 



Panapra petraria, Guen. Phal. ii. p. 132. 



Pseudopanthera petraria, Meyrick, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1892, p. 117. 



Several specimens from Oiwake, Gifu, Nikko, and Yesso 

 in Fryer's collection. A few examples were taken by my 

 native collector at Hakodate and in the island of Kiushiu in 

 June and July, and I have also received specimens from 

 Ichang, Chang-yang, and (Jhia-ting-fu, where they were taken 

 in June. 



Distribution. Europe; Armenia; Amur; Japan; Yesso; 

 Central and Western China. 



Genus LOXASPILATES. 

 (Warren, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1893, p. 413.) 



Loxaspilates obliquaria. 



Aspilates obliquaria, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1867, p. 649. 

 Loxaspilates obliquaria. Hampson, Fauna Brit. Ind., Moths, iii. p. 181 



(1895). 

 Eusarca subfalcata, Pouj. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1895, p. 312, pi. 7. 



figs. 14, 14 a. 



I received specimens of this exceedingly variable species 

 from Moupin, Omei-shan, Pu-tsu-fong, Ta-chien-lu, and 

 from How-kow. Poujade records a female specimen from 

 Moupin. 



Distribution. Afghanistan ; N.W. Himalayas ; Sikhim 

 (Hampson) ; Western China ; Thibet. 



Loxaspilates straminearia, sp. n. 



Primaries pale straw-colour, sparsely irrorated with brown- 

 ish ; there are indications of two brownish transverse lines 

 (one on each side of the blackish discal dot), most distinct 

 towards costa and inner margin ; submarginal line wavy, 

 but indistinct, and marked with blackish above the middle ; 

 fringes of the ground-colour, preceded by a series of blackish 

 dots. Secondaries whitish, with a brownish patch rather 

 below the middle of abdominal margin, and a smaller one 

 near anal angle ; fringes as on primaries. Under surface 

 pale straw-colour : primaries have the basal half of the costal 

 area suffused with fuscous and irrorated with the same colour 

 beyond ; there is an oblique fuscous transverse line marked 

 with black on the costa, and the discal spot is blackish : 

 secondaries sparsely irrorated with fuscous ; the discal spot 



