320 Mr. J. H. Leech on Lepidoptera Ueterocera 



Genus Htbernia. 

 (Latr. ; Meyrick, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1892, p. 120.) 



Hyhernia leucophoearia. 



Geometra leucophesaria, Schiff. Wien. Yerz. p. 101 ; Hiibn. Georn. 



fig. 195. 

 Hybernia leticophcBaria, Dup. Lep. vii. pi. 156. figs. 4, 5 ; Guen. Phal. 



ii. p. 251. 

 Hyhernia dira, Butl. 111. Typ. Lep. Het. iii. p. 50, pi. liii. fig. 7 



(1879). 



Several specimens from Yokohama in Prjer's collection. 



Dira, Butl., is an unusually large specimen of H. leuco- 

 pTiataria. I have but one example in my series of the species 

 which equals the type of dira in expanse, although several 

 agree with the said type in other characters. The large 

 specimen referred to was in Fryer's collection, and there was 

 also a specimen which hardly expands one inch in the same 

 collection. 



The specimens from Japan exhibit considerable variation, 

 but only one of the forms is peculiar ; and as I have not seen 

 an exact counterpart of it from Europe, I append the following 

 description : — 



Var. nigrilinearia. 



Primaries pale ochreous grey ; second line deeply indented 

 below the middle ; space between this line and the curved 

 basal line thickly sprinkled with black scales, forming a dark 

 median fascia, in tiie central portion of which is placed a pale 

 oval patch ; median ncrvure conspicuously black ; before the 

 apex is a blackish, oblique, abbreviated fascia. Secondaries 

 normal. 



l>istrihution. Europe ; Japan. 



Hyhernia bela. 



Lozogramma bela, Butl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) i. p. 406 (1878) ; 

 111. Typ. Lep. Ilet. iii. p. 40, pi. Ui. fig. 5 (1879). 



Several male specimens from Yokohama in Fryer's col- 

 lection. 



Fryer, referring to this species in his ' Catalogue of the 

 Lepidoptera of Japan,' p. 73, says " the female is semi- 

 apterous, like Hybernia progemmaria." 



Hah. Japan. 



Hyhernia verecundaria, sp. n. 

 "White, finely iiTorated with fuscous, especially on pri- 



