528 MR. J. H. LEECH ON THE [ Nov. 19, 
to the inner margin; following this line is a dark elongated quadrate 
blotch, edged narrowly with black, and its lower end terminating in 
a short black bar, a similar bar lies beyend and near the costa, and 
following this is a curved and indented pale line; before the apex are 
two short black streaks; submarginal line pale, but not distinctly 
defined ; reniform paler, indistinct, below this is a dark shade to 
inner margin: secondaries grey-brown. Under surface pale brown, 
primaries suffused with darker, central line dark, edged externally 
with paler; secondaries have a dark, central spot and crenate trans- 
verse line. 
Expanse 30 millim. 
3, Nagasaki, June (Leech); Ningpo, June, d Q (Nat. Coll.). 
The female specimen, being in better condition than either of the 
mates, has been described ; but there does not appear to be any differ- 
ence in the character of markings in the sexes. 
244, ERASTRIA SECURIFERA. 
Erastria securifera, Walk. Journ, Linn. Soe. vii. p. 58. 
One example, coll. Pryer. 
Japan (Pryer) ; Borneo. 
245. AGROPHILA TRABEALIS. 
Pyralis trabealis, Scop. Ent. Carn. p. 40 (1763). 
Phal.-Pyralis sulphuralis, Linn. Syst. Nat. xii. p. 881 (1766). 
Noctua trabeata, Scriba, Beitr. pl. 10. fig. 8. 
Noctua sulphurea, Esp. Schmett. iv. pl. 164, fig. 6; Hiibn. Noct. 
pl. 60. fig. 291. 
Lrastria sulphurea, Treit. Schmett. v. 251; (sulphuralis) Steph. 
Ill. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 117. 
Agrophila sulphurals, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 206. 
A nice series, coll. Pryer. 
My native collector took specimens at Hakodate in June or July, 
and at Gensan in September. 
Varies in the amount of black on primaries. 
Oiwake, Yesso (Pryer); Hakodate, Gensan (Nat. Coll.) ; Europe. 
246. ACANTHOLIPES METALLIGERA. 
Acantholipes metalligera, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 190. 
Tokio (Fenton). 
247. MeTHORASA THWAITESII. 
Methorasa thwaitesti, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 61, pl. 151. fig. 2 
(1884). 
One specimen, coll. Pryer, without locality (no. 894). 
Japan (Pryer); Ceylon. 
248. OzZARBA PUNCTIGERA. 
Ozarba punctigera, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. Suppl. ii. p. 685 (1865). 
Several examples, coll. Pryer. 
