542 NOCTtJID^. 



defined by white on inner side. Hind wing whitish suffused with 

 fuscous brown ; a slight dark terminal line ; cilia whitish ; the 

 underside white slightly irrorated -with fuscous, a dark discoidal 

 spot, curved postmedial series of minute streaks on the veins, and 

 terminal series of striae. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing more ochreous brown and without white suf- 

 fusion beyond postmedial line. 



Hab. Japan, Hakone (Leech), 2 5 , Yokohama (Pryer, Manley), 

 5 d' , 4 5 type ; C. China, Shanghai {Pryer), 1 $ . Exp. 24- 

 30 millim. 



5811. Lithacodia atrata. 



Erastria atrata, Butl. Trans. Eiit. Soc. 1881, p. 188 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. 



p. 231. 

 .Erastria sidemiata, Oberth. Et. Ent. x. p. 25, pi. iii. f. 6 (1884). 



Head and thorax dark brown slightly mixed with grey ; pectus 

 and legs paler, the tarsi brown ringed with white ; abdomen brown 

 mixed with greyish. Fore wing dark greyish brown with a slight 

 cupreous gloss ; traces of a dark subbasal line from costa to sub- 

 median fold : antemedial line brown, minutely waved, oblique ; 

 orbicular very indistinctly defined by brown, small, round ; reni- 

 form a narrow white luiiule indistinctly defined by brown with 

 some white points beyond it and w^hite suffusion above it on costa ; 

 traces of an oblique sinuous medial line from lower angle of cell to 

 inner margin ; postmedial line dark defined on outer side by white 

 towards costa and inner margin and by white points on the veins 

 at middle, bent outwards below costa, then dentate, incurved below 

 vein 4, some white points beyond it on costa; subterminal line 

 represented by a minutely dentate white bar from costa, then by 

 slight dentate dark marks, excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; 

 a terminal series of slight dark lunules ; cilia with a fine pale line 

 at base and some whitish at tips. Hind wing greyish suffused with 

 cupreous brown ; cilia whitish with a brown line through them ; 

 the underside whitish irrorated wdth brown, a dark discoidal spot, 

 indistinct curved postmedial line, and fine terminal line. 



Hah. E. Siberia, Ussuri, 1 $ ; Japan, Oiwake {Pryer), 3 J , 

 1 $ , Tokio {Maries), 1 $ type, Yokohama {Pryer), 1 $ . Exp. 

 26-28 millim. 



5812. Lithacodia distinguenda. 



Erastria distinguenda, Staud. Stett. Ent. Zeit. xlix. p. 266 (1888) ; id. Eom. 

 Mem. Ti. p. 564, pi. 11. f. 2 ; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 231. 



Head and thorax fuscous brown mixed with white ; tarsi banded 

 brown and white ; abdomen brown and white with white seg- 

 mental rings, the crests blackish. Fore wing brown with some 

 rufous and white scales mixed ; subbasal line represented by 

 blackish striae from costa and cell ; antemedial line blackish, 



