from China^ Japan, and Corea. 71 



One male specimen from Cho\v-pln-sa : May. 



Huh. Western Cliina. 



Allied to E. pulchcllaia, Steph. 



Eupithecia mandarinaria^ sp. n. 



Primaries pale brown, suffused and clouded with darker, 

 and traversed by tliree black lines, each of which originates 

 in a black mark on costa, and externally edged with wiiitish 

 throughout its course; the inner is slightly curved, the outer 

 is sharply dentate, and the median one is twice angled, the 

 upper angle almost touching a dentation of the outer line; 

 submarginal line wavy, whitish ; discal spot black, encircled 

 with whitish, large and consjjicuous. Secondaries whity 

 brown, dark brown on outer marginal area ; there are two 

 dusky transverse lines before the middle and a blackish- 

 edged whitish dentate line beyond the middle, but this latter 

 only extends from abdominal margin to third median ncrvule; 

 submarginal line wavy, whitish. Fringes brown, marked 

 with whitish and preceded by a whitish line. Under surface 

 whitish, suffused with darker on the outer marginal area; 

 primaries have a black discal spot, a black mark on costa 

 beyond, and the transverse lines of upper surface are faintly 

 indicated ; secondaries have a black discal spot, some dusicy 

 transverse lines, and a series of blackish marks on the 

 nervules. 



Expanse 30-38 millim. 



Fifteen specimens from Ta-chien-lu, Wa-shan, and Pu-tsu- 

 fong, June; and one female example from Kiukiang. 



Hub. Central and Western China. 



In the Kiukiang example the transverse lines of primaries 

 are very faint, but tlie black line beyond middle of secondaries 

 is very conspicuous. 



Allied to E. togata, Hiibn. 



Genus MlCROLOBA. 

 (Hampson, Fauna Brit. Ind., Moths, iii. p. 405 (1895).) 



Microloha hella. 



Melanippe hella, Biitl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) i. p. 448 (1878) ; 



111. Tvp. Lep. llet. iii. p. 55, pi. liv. tig. 10 (1879); Oberth. Etud. 



d'Entom. V. p. 53, pi. iv. iig. 11 (18^0). 

 Tyloptera eburneata, Christ. Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. iv. (2) p. 116 (1880). 

 Microloba Bella, Hampson, Fauna Brit. Ind., Moths, iii. p. 405 (1895). 



There were specimens from Yokohama in Pryer's collec- 

 tion. 1 obtained the species at Gensan in July and at Hako- 

 date in August, and my native collector met with it in the 



