22 leucaniid^:. 



primaries, and with the secondaries and abdomen shining whity brown with rosy margin ; 

 below much paler than in M. turca. Expanse of wings 1 inch 6 lines. 

 Yokohama (Jonas). 



Mythimna grandis. (Plate XXVIII. fig. 7.) 



Mythimna grandis, Butler, Ann. Sf Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 79 (1878). 



? . Considerably larger than M. turca, the inner transverse stripe running parallel to the 

 outer as far as the middle of the discoidal cell, then diverging abruptly inwards to the costal 

 margin ; the outer stripe regularly denticulated ; under surface whity-brown, with a pink 

 tinge ; a dot at the end of each cell and a discal transverse stripe grey ; a marginal row of 

 black dots. Expanse of wings 2 inches 4 lines. 

 Hakodate" (Whitely) ; Yokohama (Jonas). 



Mythimna divergent (Plate XXVIII. fig. 8.) 



Mythimna divergens, Butler, Ann. Sf Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 79 (1878). 



? . Darker than the preceding species, the reniform spot larger ; primaries with the central 

 area somewhat ochraceous ; an ill-defined red-brown patch immediately beyond the reniform spot ; 

 the inner transverse stripe of primaries slightly irregular, but diverging throughout from the outer 

 stripe ; the reddish fringes of a deeper tint : under surface deep dull reddish, the transverse 

 discal line more slender, more continuous, and darker ; primaries with a dusky nebula just 

 beyond the cell. Expanse of wings 2 inches 3 lines. 

 Hakodate* (Whitely). 



LEUCANIA, Ochsenheimer. 



Leucania salebrosa. (Plate XXVIII. fig. 10.) 



Leucania salehrosa, Butler, Ann. Sf Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 80 (1878). 



Allied to L. insueta from North America, but smaller ; the body more uniformly whitish, the 

 collar with two transverse grey lines ; the tegulse longitudinally streaked with reddish and 

 speckled with black ; the white spot at the end of the cell in primaries more elongated. 

 Primaries below with the discoidal area greyish ; secondaries below white, with a black dot at 

 the end of the cell. Expanse of wings 1 inch 3-4 lines. 



Yokohama (Jonas). 



Leucania singularis. (Plate XXVIII. fig. 11.) 



Leucania singularis, Butler, Ann. Sf Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 80 (1878). 



Primaries above sandy whitish, with two confluent grey patches, one apical, the other 

 filling the basal half of the median interspaces and bounding the median vein ; a silvery white 

 spot at the end of the cell, and a black dot just within it; two deeply crinkled divergent 

 transverse grey lines dotted externally with black ; a submarginal series of brown lunules, and 



