544 Mr. J. H. Leech on Lepidoptera Heterocera 



Palceomystis mabillaria. 



Erosia (?) mahiUaria, Pouj. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1895, p. 311, pi. vi. 

 fig. 12. 



Ponjade records a male specimen from Moupin. I have 

 received an example of the same sex from Huang-mii-cliang, 

 taken in July, and another from Wa-shan, taken in June. 



Hah. Western China. 



This species is smaller than P. falcataria, Moore, and the 

 angle of the secondaries is more produced. 



Subfamily Ortrostixinm. 



Genus lOTAPHORA. 

 (Warr. Novit. Zool. i. p. 322 (1894).) 



lotaphora iridicolor. 



TancBthia iridicolor, Butl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) vi. p. 227 

 (1880) ; lU. Typ. Lep. Ilet. vi. p. 49, pi. cxiii. fiff. 3 (1886). 



Metrocampa admirnhilif, Oborth. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1883, p. Ixxxiv ; 

 Etud. d'Entom. x. p. 29, pi. i. fig. 8 (1884). 



Metrocamjm (?) ndmirabilis, Graeser, Berl. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 392. 



lotaphora iridicolor, Hampson, Fauna Brit. lud., Motbe, iii. p. 322 

 (1895). 



My collectors obtained a specimen in eacli of the following 

 localities : — Chang-yang, Icliang, Moupin, Wa-shan, Omei- 

 shan : June and July. 



Distribution. Sikliim ; Khdsis (Ilampson) ; Amur ; Central 

 and Western China. 



All my Chinese examples are larger than any Himalayan 

 specimen that I have seen, and, with the exccj)tion of the 

 Wa-shan S})ecimcn, they all have a greenish tinge. Graeser 

 states that the larva of this species feeds on Juylans mand- 

 schurica, and that it is like a curled leaf in appearance. 



Genus EUMELEA. 

 (Duncan ; Hampson, Fauna Brit. Ind., Moths, iii. p. 320 (1896).) 



Enmclia rosalia. 



Phakena (Geometra) rosalia, Cram. Pan. Exot. iv. pi. ccckviii. ficr. F 



(1782). ^ ^ 



Eumelca rosalia, Eampson, Fauna Brit. Ind., Moths, iii. p. 320 (1895). 



Hampson gives China for this species, probably in the 

 south, as my collectors did not meet with it in any part of 

 Central or Western Ciiina that they visited. 



Lh'strihution. China; Formosa; througliout India, Ceylon, 

 and Burma ; the Malayan and Austro-Malayan subregions. 



