of Heterocera from Japan. 397 
of B. trispinaria, excepting that the outer line is rather nearer 
to the external margin and more strongly dentated. Expanse 
2 inches. 
Yokohama (Jonas); Hakodaté (Whitely). 
166. Boarmia insolita, n. sp. 
Wings above silvery grey ; a subbasal sandy yellowish belt, 
on and immediately beyond which are two interrupted trans- 
verse black lines; a black costal oblique dash above the end 
of the cell, and a small yellow spot at base of first median 
branch ; an interrupted sinuated black line beyond the cell, 
followed by a sandy-yellowish discal belt ; outer border broadly 
dusky, intersected by a submarginal undulated whitish line ; 
two quadrate dusky patches placed angle to angle from above 
the second median branch to the outer margin; a series of 
black marginal spots: secondaries with discal lines and belts, 
and marginal spots as in the primaries. Under surface silvery 
white, with dusky discocellular spots; primaries with the 
discoidal and apical areas faintly tinted with grey ; an ill-de- 
fined grey discal line. Expanse 1 inch 7 lines. 
Hakodaté (Whitely). 
Alhed to B. cinctaria. 
TEPHROSIA, Boisduval. 
167. Yephrosia charon, n. sp. 
&. Silvery grey; the wings crossed by three black lines, 
the two outer ones of the primaries converging towards the 
inner margin, and all of them bent inwards above the middle ; 
outer border slightly darker than the rest of the wings, inter- 
sected by a wavy dusky-bordered white line; thorax trans- 
versely banded with black: under surface grey; the wings 
with a very slightly darker discal belt. Jixpanse 1 inch 
11 lines. 
2. Much browner in tint; the under surface with well- 
defined darker discal belt, very dark on the primaries. Ex- 
panse 1 inch 9 lines. 
3, Hakodaté (Whitely); ¢ 2, Yokohama (Jonas). 
168. Tephrosia ignobilis, n. sp. 
Nearly allied te 7. transfixaria from Kast Florida, but the 
lines across the wings less oblique, the first one also not 
double ; under surface sandy brown instead of whitish. Ex- 
panse | inch 4 lines. 
Yokohama (Jonas). 
