512 MR. J. H. LEECH ON THE [Nov. 19, 
All the markings are subject to slight modification but the =- 
shaped mark referred to by Mr. Butler in his description of this 
species varies considerably: thus in two examples the extremities 
alone remain distinct and these are connected by a very fine dark 
line ; in another specimen the mark is replaced by a large quadrate 
black spot, and ina fourth the bar is contracted in the middle so that 
it forms two triangles whose apices are contiguous. 
Yokohama (Jonas, Pryer, Manley). 
170. TaNIOCAMPA MUNDA. 
Noctua munda, Esp. Schmett. iii. pl. 52. figs. 5, 6; (Jota) Hiibn. 
Noct. fig. 166. 
Orthosia munda, Hibn. Verz. Schmett. p. 229. n. 2293; Treit. 
Schmett. v. 2. p. 208. 
Teniocampa munda, Guen. Noct.1. p. 356. 
Teniocampa munda, var. immaculata, Staud. Cat. p. 114 (1871). 
A fine series, coll. Pryer. 
The majority of the specimens are larger than European 7’. munda. 
The series includes one example of the var. immaculata. 
Yokohama (Pryer, Manley) ; Yesso (Pryer). 
171. T#NIOCAMPA GRACILIS. 
Noctua gracilis, Fabr. Mant. Ins. p. 148; Hiibn. Noet. pl. 35. 
fig. 168. 
Orthosia gracilis, Treit. Schmett. v. 2. p. 217. 
Teniocampa gracilis, Guen. Noct.i. p. 355. 
Teniocampa ella, Butl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) i. p. 167 
(1878) ; Ill. Typ. Lep. Het. ii. pl. xxx. fig. 7 (1878). 
Several specimens, coll. Pryer. 
There appears to be a pale form and a dark form in Japan as in 
Europe, but the palest Japanese specimen I have is not quite so light 
as some of my European examples; whilst, on the other hand, I have 
not yet seen a specimen from Europe as dark as the darkest Japanese 
example in Pryer’s series of 7. gracilis. Butler’s figure of T. ella 
represents a specimen which as regards tone of colour is intermediate 
between the two just adverted to. 
Yokohama (Jonas, Pryer); Europe. 
172. 'TaNIOCAMPA INSTABILIS. 
Noctua instabilis, Esp. Schmett. iv. pl. 151. fig. 3 ; Hiibn. Noct. 
pl. 35. fig. 165. 
Teniocampa instabilis, Guen. Noct. i. p. 350. 
Var. Teniocampa evanida, Butl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) iv. 
p- 362 (1879). 
Five specimens, coll. Pryer. 
Four of these Japanese examples are larger than any European 
specimen I have seen of 7. instabilis, but the fifth is of the normal 
size. In colour all the five specimens are pale, but I have an example 
