1888.] LEPIDOPTERA OF JAPAN AND COREA. 



621 



$ . Resembles male, but primaries clouded with ochreous ; 

 antennae simple. 



Closely allied to B. straminea, but secondaries of both sexes paler, 

 and antennae of male plumose and not simply pectinated. 



Two specimens, coll. Pryer, S ? • Ohoyama. 



Expanse, S 53 millim., $ 51 millim. No. 48 Fryer's Cat. As. 

 Soc. Jap., May 1883. 



198. BiRETA STRAMINEA. 



Ceira straminea, Moore, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) xx. p. 91 

 (1877). 



I took this species at Gensan in July, and there were several 

 examples in coll. Pryer. 



Yokohama {Pryer and Manley) ; Gensan {Leech). 



199. BiRETA PALLIDA. 



Bireta pallida, Butl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) xx. p. 473 

 (1877); 111. Typ. Lep. Het. pt. ii. p. 12, pi. xxv. figs 10, 11 

 (1878). 



A few examples in a long series of Bii'eta, composed principally 

 of specimens of B. straminea, in Fryer's collection. 



Yokohama {Jonas, Pryer, and Manley). 



200. L^LIA GIGANTEA. 



Lcelia gigantea, Butl. Cist. Ent. vol. iii. p. 117. 

 One male and six females in coll. Fryer. 

 Oiwake {Pryer). 



201. L^LIA CCENOSA. 



Bombyx ccenosa, Hiibn. Bomb. pi. 51. fig. 218. 



Bomhyx sangaica, Moore, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) xx. p. 92 



(1877). 



Leucoma brevicornis. Walk. I. c. vii. p. 1729 (1856). 



'f = Lcelta sinensis, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. iv. p. 829 (1855); 

 Butl. 111. Typ. Lep. Het. pt. iii. p. 9, pi. xliii. fig. 8 (1879). 



Eleven S and 2 $ , coll. Pryer. A little darker as a rule, but 

 otherwise Japanese examples do not differ from European specimens 

 of L. ccenosa. Some of the specimens, however, agree with L. 

 sinensis, Walk., the type of which came from Hong-Kong; Dr. 

 Fixsen records a specimen of the last-named from Corea. 



Yokohama {Pryer) ; Hakodate, Gensan, and Ningpo {Leech). 



202. Leucoma subvitrea. 



Leucoma subvitrea. Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. Suppl. ii. p. 344. 



'> = Aroa alba, Brem. Lep. Ost-Sib. p. 41, tab. iii. fig. 18 (1864). 



I obtained this species at Gensan in July 1886, and an example 

 of each sex at Fusan in June 1886. Five specimens in Fryer's 

 collection are not localized, but in his Catalogue he gives Nikko. 



Nikko (Pryer) ; Fusan, Gensan (ieecA) ; Hindustan. ? Amur. 

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