504 mr. j. h. leech on the [nov. 19, 



135. Lamprosticta bella. 



Lamprosticta bella, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 183. 

 Two examples, coll. Pryer. 

 Tokio (Fenton) ; Yesso {Fryer). 



136. Lamprosticta ventjsta, sp. n. (Plate LI. fig. 5.) 



Primaries pale whitish green ; reniform and orbicular of the 

 ground-colour, spotted and surrounded with black ; a short black 

 basal streak ; submarginal line represented by a short dash on costa, 

 another towards middle, and an arrow-shaped mark at inner angle ; 

 costa, outer and inner margins spotted with black : secondaries 

 greyish brown, with a fuscous central line and spot, and a broad 

 band on outer margin ; fringes chequered with dark grey and white. 

 Under surface of primaries fuscous ; costa and outer margins whitish 

 green, spotted with black ; secondaries whitish with black central 

 line and spot, outer margin clouded with fuscous towards costa. 

 Thorax green, variegated with black ; abdomen blackish grey, seg- 

 mental divisions paler. 



Expanse 41 millim. 



One $ example, coll. Pryer, without exact locality, but probably 

 from Yokohama. 



137. EUPLEXIA ALBOVITTATA. 



Euplexia alboviftata, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1 866, p. 57, pi. vi. 

 fig. 16 ; Butl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) v. p. 225 (1880). 



One example, coll. Pryer (no. 827). 



I took a specimen at Gensan in June. 



Nikko {Pryer) ; Hakodate {Andrews) ; Gensan {Leech) ; Dar- 

 jeeling, Bengal, Nilgiri Hills, Sikkim, Thundiani. 



138. Euplexia lucipara. 



Phal.-Noctua lucipara, Linn. Svst. Nat. x. p. 518; Faun. Suec. 

 318. 



Noctua lucipara, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 154. figs. 1-4 ; Hiibn. 

 Noct. fig. 55. 



Phlogophora lucipara, Treit. Schmett. v. 1. 377. 



Euplexia lucipara, Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 1 ; Guen. 

 Noct. i. p. 68. 



Several specimens, coll. Pryer. 



I took this species at Sendai in September, and my native collector 

 met with it at Hakodate in June or July. 



Yokohama, Oiwake, Yesso {Pryer) ; Sendai {Leech) : Hakodate 

 {Nat. Coll.) ; Tokio ; Europe, New York. 



139. Euplexia japonica, sp. n. (Plate LI. fig. 4.) 



Primaries dark chocolate-brown, with a slight violet tinge ; the 

 area between the pale curved inner and serrated elbowed outer lines 

 darker, and divided by a still darker longitudinal shade-like bar 

 which encloses the claviform stigma ; reniform indistinctly outhned. 



