544 Mr. J. H. Leech on Lepidoptera Heterocera 



Palceomystis mabillaria. 



Erosia (?) mabillaria, Pouj. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1895, p. 311, pi. vi. 

 fig. 12. 



Poujade records a male specimen from Moupin. I have 

 received an example of the same sex from Huang-mu-chang, 

 taken in July, and another from Wa-shan, taken in June. 



Hob. Western China. 



This species is smaller than P. falcataria, Moore, and the 

 angle of the secondaries is more produced. 



Subfamily OKTHOSTIXIN&. 



Genus IOTAPHORA. 

 (Warr. Novit. Zool. i. p. 322 (1894).) 



lotaphora iridicolor. 



Paneethia iridicolor, Butl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) vi. p. 227 

 (1880) ; 111. Typ. Lep. Het. vi. p. 49, pi. cxiii. fig. 3 (1886). 



Metrocampa admirabilis, Oberth. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1883, p. Ixxxiv ; 

 Etud. d'Entom. x. p. 29, pi. i. fig. 8 (1884). 



Metrocampa (?) admirabilis, Grseser, Berl. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 392. 



lotaphora iridicolor. Hampson, Fauna Brit. Ind., Moths, iii. p. 322 

 (1895). 



My collectors obtained a specimen in each of the following 

 localities : Chang-yang, Ichang, Moupin, Wa-shan, Omei- 

 shan : June and July. 



Distribution. Sikhim ; Kha*sis (Hampson) ; Amur ; Central 

 and Western China. 



All my Chinese examples are larger than any Himalayan 

 specimen that I have seen, and, with the exception of the 

 Wa-shan specimen, they all have a greenish tinge. Graeser 

 states that the larva of this species feeds on Juglans mand- 

 schuricaj and that it is like a curled leaf in appearance. 



Genus EUMELEA. 

 (Duncan ; Hampson, Fauna Brit. Ind., Moths, iii. p. 320 (1895).) 



Eumelia rosalia. 



Phaleena (Geometra) rosalia, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. pi. ccclxviii. fig. F 



(1782). 

 Eumelea rosalia, flampson, Fauna Brit. Ind., Moths, iii. p. 320 (1895). 



Hampson gives China for this species, probably in the 

 south, as my collectors did not meet with it in any part of 

 Central or Western China that they visited. 



Distribution. China; Formosa; throughout India, Ceylon, 

 and Burma ; the Malayan and Austro-Malayan subregions. 



