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Notes on some Lepidoptera Heterocera of Japan, wtih , 

 Descriptions of 2 new Genera and 4 new Species? 



Nobukatsu Marumo. 



The lepidopterous fauna of Japan has been well studied by many- 

 entomologists, such as Pryer, Bulter, Leech, Miyake, Wileman, etc., and 

 no room seems to be left for further investigation. But close reexa- 

 mination of it, as were undertaken by Hampson, Miyake and Nagano, 

 have not at all been worthless in bringing out many new facts into 

 lignt from species hithero known, associated with discoveries of species 

 new to science, and theretfore it still needs further study. In the 

 following lines I have to deal with some known species of our Heterocera, 

 together with a few species new to Japan or new to science. The tolal 

 nnmber of the species dealt with in the present paper amounts to 21, 

 belong to respectively to the families, Amatidae, Arctiadae, Noctuidae, 

 Lymantridae, Geometridae, Uraniadae, Zyganidae and Pyralidae, of 

 which 4 species as well as 2 genera are to be proposed as new to science. 

 Before going further I must express my heatly thanks to Dr. Miyake, 

 who has always given me many kind advices during my study. 



Family Amatidae 



Genus Amata. 

 Amata, Fabr, Hamps, cat. Lep. phal. 1. p. 59 (1898). 



Amata taiioana. 

 Syntomis tahvaxa, Miyake, Ann. Zool. Jap. vol. 6, p. 81 (1907). 



