506 MR. J. H. LEECH ON THE [NoV. 19, 



Yokohama {Pryer) ; Geusau {Nat. Coll.) ; Kiukiang {Pratt) ; 

 S. Domingo, Honduras, Venezuela. 



144. Gonitis combinans. 



Gonitis combinans. Walk. Cat. Lap. Het. xiii. p. 1001. no. 7 

 (1859). 



Gonitis albitibia. Walk. I. c. no. 8. 



Gonitis privata, Walk. C. L. H. Suppl. iii. p. 8G3 (1865). 



Gonitis commoda, Butl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) i. p. 203 

 (1878); 111. Typ. Lep. Het. ii. pi. xxxii. fig. 3 (1878). 



Several specimens, coll. Pryer. 



I took the species at Nagasaki in June, and Fushiki in July. 



An exceedingly variable series, embracing examples of all the 

 above-named forms. 



Yokohama {Jonas and Pryer) ; Fushiki, Nagasaki {Leech) ; 

 Loochoo {Pryer) ; Tokio, Shanghai, Ceylon. 



145. Gonitis pryeri, sp. n. (Plate LII. fig. 8.) 



$ . Pale brown ; primaries sparingly sprinkled with darker 

 brown, and traversed by two dark lines, the outer edged externally 

 and the inner internally with paler ; a short dark apical streak ; 

 orbicular represented by a minute white dot, reuiform ill-defined : 

 secondaries with faint indications of two transverse lines. Under 

 surface pale whitish brown ; primaries with a dark central transverse 

 line and apical streak ; secondaries with an indistinct dark central 

 line. 



Expanse 45 millim. 



One $ example, coll. Pryer. 



There is au example of this species from Dharmsala in the 

 National Museum at South Kensington. 



146. Gonitis distincta, sp. u. (Plate LII. fig. 7.) 



Primaries bright green, slightly orange along costal margin ; 

 discal spot minute, blackish, a pale dark-bordered oblique line 

 traverses the outer third of wing ; submarginal line wavy, slightly 

 darker than ground-colour ; fringes brownish : secondaries bright 

 cupreous brown ; fringes pale grey-brown. Under surface of 

 primaries shining cupreous brown, paler towards inner margin ; 

 secondaries pinkish brown, with faint blackish central line and dot. 



Expanse 43 millim. 



Several specimens, coll. Pryer. 



I took one example at Nagahama, and two at Gensan in July. 



147. DiCHONIA PROTEA. 



Noctuaprotea, Borkh. iv. p . 386 ; Esp. Schmett. \\. pl.!l 50. fig. 6 ; 

 Hiibn. Noct. fig. 406. 



Bichonia protea, Hiibn. Verz. Schmett. p. 217. n. 2173. 



Hadena protea, Treit. Schmett. v. 1. p. 362; Guen. Noct. ii. 

 p. 89. 



