from Ghina^ Japan ^ and Corea. 333 



Alpherakj records a specimen, taken in September, at Youi- 

 line-tchouan in the Province of Kan-sou, Western China, 

 which he considers to be the female of G. creperariuj Ersch. 

 Grteser also records the species from Amurland. 



Distribution. Siberia; Amur; Western China. 



GnopTios fumosa. 



Catascia fumosa, Warren, Novit. Zool. ii. p. 129 (1895). 



Hah. Japan. 



1 have been unable to examine the type of this species. 



GnopTios (?) exculta. 

 Tephrosia eaculta, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1881, p. 408. 



There were two female specimens from Yokohama and 

 Oiwake in Fryer's collection. I have received two examples 

 of each sex from Ta-chien-lu, and a female from Ni-tou : 

 June and July. 



Var. hriinnearta, var. no v. 



This form, of which I have only a male example from 

 Omei-shan, differs from the type in its smaller size, pale 

 brown ground-colour, and blackish blotch above outer angle 

 of primaries; the indented marginal line of primaries is 

 absent. 



Distribution. Japan ; Western China. 



Genus Bylazora. 

 (Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. xxvi. p. 1549 (1862).) 



Bylazora nigropunctaria^ sp. n. 



Primaries olive-green, marked with black at the base and 

 on the neuration ; there is a transverse line before the middle 

 and one beyond the middle, each represented by black dots 

 on the nervures and nervules, the dots in the first series are 

 edged inwardly and those in the second series outwardly with 

 whitish ; submarginal line whitish, angled towards costa and 

 curved towards inner margin, and followed by an interrupted 

 and irregular black band ; discal spot black, oval, enclosing 

 a line of the ground-colour ; fringes of the ground-colour, 

 preceded by a series of whitish-edged black lunules. Second- 

 aries whitish, freckled with fuscous grey ; fringes brownish 

 grey, preceded by a series of pale-edged blackish lunules. 

 Under surface pale whity brown, freckled with fuscous ; all 

 the wings have a blackish discal mark and a transverse series 



