198 THE ENTOMOLOGIST,. 



Museum Collection, which includes Guenee's female type, with 

 the series of this new Calpe in the British Museum Collection 

 and my own collection, shows a variation sufficiently marked to 

 warrant the latter being separated as a distinct species, apart 

 from the fact that the larva differs entirely in colour and markings 

 from that of minuticomis. I therefore propose the name hokkaida 

 for this new species, and give below a description of the imago 

 and larva, and also the description of the larva of minuticomis 

 taken from Moore's ' Lepidoptera of Ceylon.' In the series of 

 eighteen specimens of minuticomis in the British Museum Collec- 

 tion, which come from Formosa, Sikhim, India, Ceylon, Java 

 (1 ? type Guenee) and Australia, there still remains one male 

 specimen from Oiwake, Japan (ex collection H. Pryer), which 

 agrees remarkably well with Guenee's female type of minuticomis 

 from Java (Horsfield), so that there are apparently two quite 

 distinct, but very closely allied, species in Japan — one minuti- 

 comis, Guenee, whose habitat is at Oiwake, in the island of 

 Honshu, situated at perhaps about 3000 ft. altitude, and lying 

 between 36° to 47° northern latitude ; and the other hokkaida, 

 Mihi, which, so far, has been found only at Chang-yang, Central 

 China, and on the plains of Hokkaido, between 41° and 42° 

 northern latitude. 



Minuticomis is placed by Hampson in his unpublished 

 manuscript of the 'Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in 

 the British Museum,' vol. siv, in Section VI of the genus Calpe, 

 to which hokkaida also apparently belongs : 



Section VI. — Antennae of male with uniseriate laminations : — 



A. Antennse of male with the shaft fringed with scales above 

 towards base : — 



(a) Fore wing with distinct white streak just 



below costa, rather diverging from it 



towards apex ..... orthograpta. 



(b) Fore wing without distinct white streak 



below costa ...... minuticomis. 



Description. 

 Calpe hokkaida, sp. n. 



cJ. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale brown, the latter grey- 

 tinged. Fore wings lustrous pale brown, with numerous whitish 

 striae and traversed by olive brown lines ; subbasal line inwardly 

 oblique, not extended to dorsum ; antemedial line inwardly oblique ; 

 medial line oblique, sharply elbowed at end of cell ; postmedial line 

 coppery red, oblique from apex to dorsum a third from tornus ; all 

 the lines inwardly edged with olive brown, and there are some olive 

 brown clouds between the postmedial line and the olive brown undu- 

 lated subterminal line. Fringes brown, paler at base, terminal line 



