192 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Three male specimens from Kanshirei (1000 ft.), June 7th, 

 1907, April and August, 1908. 



An extremely common species at light. 



Crinocraspeda {?) excisa, sp. n. 



3 . Antennae with long dark brown branches, graduated to the 

 tip. Fore wings brown, tinged with reddish on the central area, 

 mottled and suffused with greyisli, especially on the costal area ; a 

 pale, wavy, transverse line on the outer marginal area is deeply 

 incurved about the middle, and again before the inner margin ; this 

 line is inwardly bordered by a fuscous shade ; apical half of the outer 

 margin clouded with fuscous ; a black discal dot, beyond which the 

 veins are finely marked with blackish. Hind wings deeply excised 

 on the middle of costa, crenulate on the outer margin, and deeply 

 notched above vein six ; brown with a blackish patch, outwardly 

 edged with white, on middle of costal area ; the veins beyond the 

 patch black flecked with white ; abdominal area clothed with pale 

 brown hairs. Under side of the fore wings much as above, but rather 

 paler, veins clearly defined ; hind wings pale brown, mottled and 

 clouded with blackish ; a black antemedial line, veins beyond the line 

 black flecked with white. 



Expanse, 46 millim. 



Collection number, 1675. 



One male specimen from Arizan (7300 ft.), August 23rd, 1908. 



Metanastria arizana, sp. n. 



(? . Fore wings reddish brown ; a whitish dot at end of the cell ; 

 ante- and postmedial lines black, serrate, the latter curved, the former 

 angled about middle and inwardly edged with whitish ; space between 

 the lines dark red-brown ; submarginal series of blackish marks con- 

 nected by a dusky hne, and outwardly edged with greyish, most 

 distinct towards the inner margin ; on the middle of the outer margin 

 is a dark red-brown cloud. Hind wings pale reddish brown, with 

 narrow central bands of a darker hue on each wing. 



? . Much darker brown, the reddish tint only in evidence on the 

 basal area and beyond the postmedial. 



Expanse, <? 54 miUim., ? 62 milhm. 



Collection number, 720. 



One example of each sex from Arizan (7800 ft.) ; the male 

 taken in September, 1906, and the female in August, 1908. 



A common species at light. 



Miresa fulgida, sp. n. 



(? . Face and antennae red-brown, head and thorax golden yellow ; 

 abdomen yellowish, edges of the segments tinged with red-brown dor- 

 sally. Fore wings red-brown, darker on costal area ; a diffuse patch of 

 silvery scales in the cell, and a triangular silvery patch beyond the 

 cell — the latter has its base on the silvery postmedial line between 

 veins three and five, which at this point and inwards are also silvery ; 



