184 Mr, J. H. Leech on Lepidoptera Heterocera 



Two male specimens taken by my native collector at Hako- 

 date in June or July. 

 Hab. Yesso. 



Decetia lilacinaria^ sp. n. 



Fuscous brown. Primaries speckled with lilacine atoms 

 and suffused with golden brown on outer marginal area ; 

 there are two faint lilacine transverse lines, the outer one 

 angled below costa, continued across the secondaries to middle 

 of the margin, where it terminates in a patch of golden brown, 

 and is outwardly bordered with the same colour ; discal spot 

 black. All the wings have indications near the inner margin 

 of a dark submarginal band ; fringes brown, tipped with 

 greyish and preceded by an interrupted lilacine line. Under 

 surface pale brown, darker towards outer margin ; each wing 

 has a dusky double transverse line and a black discal spot ; 

 the costa of primaries is edged with pale ochreous, especially 

 towards apex, and there is a large golden-brown patch on 

 outer margin of these wings ; the apex of primaries is much 

 produced. 



Expanse 40 millim. 



One male specimen from the summit of Omei-shan, taken 

 in July. 



Hah. Western China. 



Genus Paradecetia. 

 (Swinhoe, Trans. Eut. Soc. Loud. 1894, p. 1G4.) 



Paradecetia alhistellaria. 

 Decetia albistellana, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. xxvi. p. 1622 (1862). 



Two male specimens from Ta-chien-lu and two examples 

 of each sex from Chang-yang. 



Distribution. Klidsis ; E. Pegu; Shdn States [Hampson) ; 

 Central and Western China. 



Genus Epiplema. 



(Ilerr.-Scbhffer; Hampson, Fauna Brit. Ind., Moths, iii. p. 125 (1805).) 



Epij)lema moza. 



Erosia moza, Butl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) i. p. 402 (1878) ; 111. 

 Typ. Lep. Het. iii. p. 42, pi. U. tig. 7 (1879). 



The specimens in Pryer's collection were from Yokohama. 

 I took the species at Jsagasaki in May and Gensan in July, 

 and have received it from Chang-yang and Omei-shan, July. 



Distribution. Jaj)an; Corea ; Central and Western C^Jhiua. 



