1888.] LEPIDOPTERA OF JAPAN AND COREA. 591 



43. Sphecia romanovi, sp. n. (Plate XXX. fig. 1.) 



(5 . Primaries hyaline, brownish, thickly clothed with dark brown 

 scales along the costa, inner margin, and median nerve ; secondaries 

 hyaline, outer half brownish, sprinkled with a few darkish scales ; 

 fringes yellowish brown. Body brownish orange, with 7 black belts. 

 Thorax black, front portion brilliant orange ; collar reddish ; head and 

 palpi bright orange marked with reddish ; antennae pectinated, lower 

 half reddish, remainder black. Prolegs orange, marked with reddish ; 

 remaining legs dark brown, marked with orange and reddish. 



§ . Like the male, but primaries more densely clothed with scales ; 

 antennae simple. 



Expanse 46 millim. 



Four specimens of this fine insect in coll. Pryer, Yokohama. 



44. Sphecia? fixseni, sp. n. (Plate XXX. fig. 2.) 

 Primaries partly hyaline, thickly clothed along the nerves as far 



as the end of cell wMth reddish-brown scales ; apex of wing and 

 broad outer margin deep buff; secondaries hyaline, with deep dark 

 brown fringes. Head black ; palpi yellow ; a narrow yellow collar. 

 Thorax marked on each side with yellow. Body blackish, with four 

 orange-yellow bands and reddish-orange anal tuft. Antennae blackish 

 above, reddish below ; all the legs yellow marked with reddish 

 orange. Underside of primaries yellow along the nerves and towards 

 apex ; secondaries sprinkled with yellow along the outer margin. 



Expanse 42 millim. 



Sexes do not differ. 



Five specimens in coll. Pryer from Nikko and Oiwake (June and 

 July, 1887). 



45. SCIAPTERON CRABRONIFORME. 



Sciapteron crabroniforme, Hiibn., Rom. Mem. sur les Lep. vol. iii. 

 p. 323. 



Corea (Herz). 



46. Sciapteron ferale, sp. n. (Plate XXX. fig. 3.) 

 Primaries brown, sprinkled with orange scales, with a purplish 



reflection, hyaline from base to a little beyond centre; secondaries 

 hyaline with an opalescent reflection. Head black ; j)alpi yellow in 

 front ; collar yellow. Thorax and body black, the latter broadly 

 belted just beyond the middle with sulphur ; legs blackish ; hind 

 tarsi yellow. Under surface of all wings iridescent. 



This species is much larger and differently belted to the other 

 two Japanese species in the genus. 



Expanse 43 millim. 



One male, coll. Pryer, taken in Yesso in 1882. 



47. Sciapteron regale. 



Sciapteron regale, Butl. 111. Typ. Lep. Het. pt. n. p. 60, pi. xl. 

 fig. 3 (1878). 



Satsuma in May ; Nagasaki in May and June ; and Shinionoseki 

 in July. Six examples, coll. Pryer. 



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