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



237. Erastria fentoni. 



Erastria fentoni. Bull. Traus. Eut. Soc. 1881, p. 190. 



A fine series, coll. Pner. 



I took a few specimens at Gensan in July. 



Tokio (Fenton) ; Oiwake, yokohama (Pnjer) ; Gensan (Leech). 



238. Erastria fasciana. 



Pkal.-Tortrix fasciana, Linn. Faun. Suec. p. 342 (1/61) ; Syst. 

 Nat. xii. p. 3/5. 



Aoctua fuscula, Borkh. Eur. Schmett. iv. p. 192; Hiibn. Noct. 

 pi. 60. fig. 1'97. 



Noctua polygramma, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 146. fig. 7. 



Erastria fuscula, Treit. Schmett. v. 3. p. 25/ ; Guen. Noct. 

 ii. pi. 229. 



Bryophila guenei, Fallon, Ann. Soc. Eiit. Fr. 1864, p. 27, pi. i. 

 fig. 3. 



Erastria stygia. Bull. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) i. p. 199 

 (187t<) ; III. Typ. Lep. H,t. iii. pi. xlvi. dg. 2 (1879). 



Several specimens, coll. Fryer. 



I took examples at Fiishiki and Gensan in June and July, and 

 my native collector at Ningpo in July. 



Varies in colour from grey-brown to fuscous brown, and the white 

 markings are very inconstant in character ; the white fascia on outer 

 margin is more particularly subject to considerable modification. In 

 some examples this is only represented by a short thin white edging 

 to the second discal transverse line. 



Yokohama {Jonas and Pryer) ; Oiwake (Fryer) ; Fushiki, Gen- 

 san (Leech) ; Europe. 



239. Erastria olivacea, sp. n. (Plate LIII. fig. 1.) 



Primaries olive-grey, basal line blackish, angulated just below 

 costa ; outer line curved and angulated, blackish, commencing in a 

 white spot on costa ; submarginal line white, with an interrupted 

 edging of the ground-colour ; external margin white, black at apex ; 

 reniform white, indistinctly outlined, with a median olive-grey suf- 

 fusion ; orbicular and a round spot below separated by the median 

 nerve, whitish, the centre of each more or less filled up with olive-grey; 

 fringes vrhite, spotted with olive-grey : secondaries fuscous grey. 

 Under surface of primaries fuscous, paler from middle of costa to 

 apex ; a small patch of black scales on costa and beyond a short 

 pale oblique streak edged internally with blackish ; fringes whitish, 

 intersected |by an interrupted blackish line and tipped with black : 

 secondaries whitish, thickly sprinkled with brownish scales along 

 costa and on outer margin, central spot and line blackish. 



Expanse, S 25 millim., $ 21 millim. 



Allied to E. fasciana. 



Several specimens, coll. Pryer. 



I took examples at Gensan in July 1886. 



Oiwake (Fryer); Gensan (Leech) ; Chang Yang (Pratt), 



