466 Lord Walsingliani on A.'^iaiic Tort.'icidtij. 



794 (3). Microcorses margiuifasciatus, sp. n. 



Antennce and palpi tawny brown. Head and thorax dark 

 tawny brown, the latter brownish cinereous posteriorly. Fore 

 vu'ngs brownish cinereous, shaded and speckled with tawny 

 brown throughout; with some brownish fuscous mottlings along 

 the costa and ternien, a faintly indicated short brownish fuscous 

 basal patch, an irregular reddish brown blotch or group of 

 spots at the middle of the wing, at the outer edge of which is 

 a small yellowish ochreous spot at the upper angle of the cell 

 and a darkly mottled narrow retldish brown fasciaform band 

 running parallel with the termen from near the apex to behind 

 the tornus; cilia brownish cinereous. Ji^oCp. al. 19 mm. 

 Hind icings pale greyish brown, with a small tuft of browa 

 scales covered by a pale shining cinereous flap above the 

 base oi" vein 1 ; cilia pale cinereous. Abdomen pale greyish 

 brown. Ze^s pale cinereous ; hind tarsal joints banded with 

 pale fuscous. 



Type, S (70592) Mus. Wlsm. 



Hab. Japan {Pryer, 188G). Three specimens. 



CEnectiu, Gn. 



7.52. (Enectra pilleriana, 8ch\ff. 



(Enedra pilleriana, Stgr. & Wk. Cat. Lp. Eur. 230. No. 752 (1871) ' ; 

 Fern. Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. X. 19. No. 88 (1882) -. 



Hnb. Europe'. China— Chang Yang, 4000-6000 feet 

 {Pratt, 1886). Japan— /fo3-i)o—Oi wake {Pryer, 1885). 

 United States — California ^, Texas \ 



Leontochkoma, gen. nov. 

 (A€a)i' = a lion ; ;^pco;xa = colour.) 



Type Leontochrorna aurantiacum, Wlsm. 



Antenna: {^) strongly ciliated (not notched). Pa^j' short, 

 projecting less than the length of the head beyond it, closely 

 clothed, terminal joint exposed, rather short. Head mode- 

 rately rough. Thorax smooth, or slightly tufted posteriorly. 

 Fore icings elongate, narrow at the base, widened outwards ; 

 costa gently arched towards the base; ^ with a short and 

 very narrow costal told at the base (easily overlooked) ; apex 

 slightly produced ; termen slightly excavate below the apex, 

 scarcely oblique; tornus rounded ; dorsum straight. Neura- 

 tioriy 12 veins ; 3 and 4 stalked ; 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to the 

 termen. Hind icings rather triangular, slightly excavate 



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