Lepidoptera from Japan. 453 



spots; a discocellular black lunule j a blackish patch below 

 the end of the cell, and another below the clay-coloured patch, 

 and enclosed by a forked black-edged white line, the outer or 

 main stem of which replaces the submarginal line of the upper 

 surface : secondaries crossed at basal third by a diffused con- 

 stricted whitish belt enclosing an irregular black line, and 

 followed by a deep-reddish discocellular dot ; a black-bordered 

 angulated white discal line ; body below whity brown, anterior 

 coxae rose-red. Expanse of wings 11 lines. 



Allied to D. icelusalis (Pyralis icelusalis of Walker). 



Asopiidae. 

 113. Samea comnrixta,n. sp. (no. 965). 



Wings above with the basal two thirds stramineous, varied 

 with white : primaries with two black dots at base, two large 

 dark brown spots close to base, followed by an irregular belt 

 of the same colour almost crossing the wing ; a blackish- 

 bordered stramineous quadrate spot at the end of the cell ; an 

 irregularly angulated pale-bordered black discal line limiting 

 the external third, which is dark brown, a marginal series of 

 black dots ; fringe stramineous, with central and terminal 

 blackish lines : secondaries crossed by two irregular black 

 lines ; external area and fringe as in primaries : body 

 whity brown, abdomen banded with blackish. Under sur- 

 face whity brown, markings very indistinct. Expanse of 

 wings 9 lines. 



Allied to Samea inscitalis (/Ediodes inscitalis of Walker). 



114. Samea exigua, n. sp. (no. 1032). 



Wings cream-coloured, with very pale cupreous-brown 

 outer border, bounded internally by a dusky line; fringe grey, 

 with white and blackish basal lines ; two central dusky lines, 

 the outer one almost sigmoidal (but angular) upon the prima- 

 ries, straight and uniting with the submarginal line on secon- 

 daries ; costal area of primaries brownish: body cream-coloured, 

 brown in front ; anus yellow. Under surface white, markings 

 as above, but all grey. Expanse of wings 7 lines. 



Margarodidae. 

 115. Glyphodes Pryeri, n. sp. (no. 989). 



Very like G. pyloalis of North China (G. sylpharis of 

 Japan), but larger, the white areas sordid, the bands broader, 

 duller, and connected upon the inner margin of primaries : 

 secondaries crossed by a central bisinuated dark brown stripe ; 



