672 Mr. J. H. Leech on Lepidoptera Heterocera 



Genus Photoscotosia . 



Trichopleura, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1882, p. G8 (pvaeocc). 

 Photoscotosia, Warren, Proc. Zool. Soc. Load. 1888, p. 328. 

 Lasiogma, Meyrick, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1892, p. 70. 



Photoscotosia fasciaria J sp. n. 



Primaries pale grey-brown, traversed by several diffuse 

 dark grey wavy lines ; basal patch dark grey ; central fascia 

 chocolate-brown, the inner edge slightly indented about the 

 middle and the outer edge angled above the middle and 

 bilobed below it ; there are some blackish clouds on the outer 

 margin ; the costal portions of the transverse lines are darker, 

 and some blackish dashes precede the marginal line. Second- 

 aries orange, marked with fuscous grey on abdominal area 

 and on outer margin from anal angle to tliird median nervule. 

 Fringes fuscous, except towards outer angle of secondaries, 

 where they are orange, preceded on all the wings by an 

 interrupted black line. Under surface : primaries pale 

 ochreous, suffused with blackish on basal portion, which is 

 limited by an elbowed blackish band ; the apical area is 

 clouded with blackish : secondaries yellowish ochreous, 

 powdered with fuscous ; abdominal area greyish ; discal spot 

 linear, blackish ; central band dusky, almost straight from 

 costa to middle, thence turns sharply to abdominal margin. 



Expanse 52-54 millim. 



Two male specimens and one female from Ilow-Kow : July. 



IMu Tliibet. 



Photoscotosia amplicata. 



Cidaria amplicata, Walk. Cat. Lep. Ilet. xxv. p. 1404 (1862). 

 Trichopleura amplicata, Alph. Koiu. sur L^p. vi. p. 76, pi. iii. 



figs. 10a, A, S {1«92). 

 Trichopleura Dejeayii, Obertb. Etud. d'Entom. xviii. p. 40, pi. iv. fig. 61 



(1893). 

 Photoscotosia amplicata, Hampson, Fauna Brit. Ind., Motbs, iii. p. 382 



(1895). 



Occurs at Omei-shan, Ni-tou, Pu-tsu-fong, and How-Kow : 

 June and July. 



In Chinese specimens the white patch on primaries varies 

 to much the same extent that it does in my series from the 

 N.W. Himalayas, but the secondarie.>< are usually much less 

 suffused with fuscous. One form, however, from Omei-shan 

 seems to merit a varietal name. 



Var. rivularia, nov. 



General coloration brighter and more variegated ; outer 

 transverse line of primaries very conspicuous. 



