654 Mr. J. H. Leech on Lepidoptera Heterocera 



Expanse 22-24 millim. 



One male specimen from Che-tou, one from Ta-chien-lu : 

 June and July ; and one example (minus head) from Chang- 

 yang, August. 



Hob. Central and Western China. 



Cidaria nigrozonaria, sp. n. 



Primaries have the basal two thirds fuscous brown, tra- 

 versed by a pale brown subbasal band ; the outer edge of the 

 area is limited by an undulated black line ; outer third pale 

 umber-brown traversed by two sinuous brown lines, the outer 

 rather indistinct ; apical patch fuscous brown, powdered with 

 grey and marked with black. Secondaries fuscous grey, 

 marked with paler on abdominal area towards anal angle. 

 Fringes pale brown, marked with darker and preceded by a 

 blackish line. Under surface fuscous grey, traversed by 

 darker lines and bands ; discal dot on each wing black ; 

 fringes umber-brown marked with darker at the ends of the 

 nervules. 



Expanse 24-26 millim. 



Six male specimens and five females from Oiwake and 

 Yokohama in Fryer's collection. 



Hob. Japan. 



Cidaria quadrifasciaria. 



Phal. Geometra quadrifasciaria , Clerck, Icon. pi. vi. fig. 4 ; Linn. 



Faun. Suec. 329. 



Coremia quadrifasciaria, Guen. Phal. ii. p. 417. 

 Xanthorhoe quadrifasciaria, Meyrick, Trans. Eut. Soc. Lond. 1892, 



p. 77. 

 Scotosia ignobilis, Bull. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 423. 



There were specimens from Yokohama and Yesso in 

 Fryer's collection. I captured the species at Hakodate in 

 August. 



Some of the specimens are much suffused, others agree 

 with the type of " S" ignobilis^ Butl., in the National Collec- 

 tion at South Kensington. 



Distribution. Europe; Altai; Eastern Siberia; Amur; 

 Japan; Yesso. 



Cidaria dimidiaria. 

 Cidaria dimidiaria, Motsch. Bull, de PAcad. 1866, i. p. 197. 



A nice series in Fryer's collection. I took the species at 

 Tsuruga and Fushiki in July ; and my native collector 

 obtained it in the island of Kiushiu. 



Hob. Japan; Kiushiu. 



