Heterocera from China, Japan, and Corea. 489 



Distribution. South-East Europe.— Japan ; Kiushiu ; 

 Eastern and Central China; Corea. 



Genus Metasia. 

 Guenee, Delt. and Pyral, p. 251 (1854). 



1924. Metasia hodiusalis. 



Botys hodiusalis, Walk., Cat. Lep. Het., xviii, p. 706 



(1859). 

 Metasia hodiusalis, Hampson, Proc. Zoo]. Soc. Lond., 1899, 



p. 237. 



Distribution. Amurland ; China ; Borneo ; Sumbawa 



{Hampson). 



1925. Metasia paganalis, sp. n. (Plate XV, fig. 6.) 



Primaries pale brown slightly suffused with fuscous, a fuscous 

 streak on basal half of costa and a dot beyond, a blackish annulus 

 in the cell and one at end of the cell ; antemedial line blackish, 

 slightly excurved from costa to middle, thence almost straight to 

 inner margin ; postmedial line blackish, almost straight from costa to 

 vein 2, where it turns inwards and upwards to lower angle of the cell, 

 then it turns downwards again to the inner margin. Secondaries pale 

 brown suffused with fuscous on the outer margin ; ante- and post- 

 medial lines blackish, the former from discal mark to inner margin, 

 the latter not continued in the direction of the inner margin beyond 

 vein 2. Fringes whitish traversed by a fuscous line and preceded by 

 a blackish one. Under surface similar to above but paler. 



Expanse 21 millim. 



Two specimens from Ta-chien-lu taken in May or June, 

 and one from Pu-tsu-fong taken in June or July. 

 Habitat. Western China. 



R.S. 



1926. Metasia mcanalis, sp. n. (Plate XV, fig. 8.) 



Whitish faintly suffused with fuscous. Primaries have an almost 

 straight blackish antemedial line on the outer edge of which, to- 

 wards the costa, is a blackish annulus ; central line blackish, extend- 

 ing from a blackish outlined reniform mark at end of the cell to the 

 inner margin, bent inwards just before vein 1 ; postmedial line black, 

 straight from the costa almost to the inner angle, a white dot on the 

 costa on either side of the line. Secondaries have ante- and postmedial 



