ON THE HEMEROI3IINAE OF JAPAN. 



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Legs fulvous, somewhat brownish on tarsal joints ; claws piceous, long, 

 and strongly curved. 



Forewing elongate at apex, tinged with brownish yellow especially 

 strongly in hind marginal area ; an ill-defined darkish streak runs from 

 discal area to the apex of the wing ; costal area with a long, hyaline line 

 running parallel to costa ; pterostigmatic region rather pinkish ; hind margin 

 of the wing with alternate brown and yellow small patches. Neuration 

 mostly fulvous brown ; gradate veinlets mostly marked with blackish, some 

 of those in outer two series whitish and marked with hyaline spots. 



Hindwing hyaline and slightly tinged with dark brown, excepting basal 

 and discal area s which are colorless ; pterostigmatic region distinctly 

 pinkish. Neuration fulvous brown ; gradate veinlets nearly colorless ; anal 

 veins fuscous. 



Abdomen brownish, with broad yellowish lateral stripes ; the last seg- 

 ment rather yellowish and covered with short concolorous hairs. 

 Measurements : 



Length of body II mm. 



Length of forewing 14 mm. 



Width of forewing 5 mm. 



Length of hindwing 12.5 mm. 



The type is a single female specimen captured by Mr. A. Nohira at 

 Kyoto, on August S, 1914. 



Genus Winguta Navâs. 



Ninguta Navâs, Rev. Russ. d'Entom., xii, p. 420 (1912). 



Wings exceedingly broad with all the veins very close together. 

 Costal area of forewing very broad at base, with one recurrent vein and 

 many branched costal crossveins ; three series of gradate veinlets ; five, 

 four, or occasionally three radial sectors. Hindwing with two series of 

 gradate veinlets. 



Contains but one species — Ninguta deltoïdes (Navas). 



This genus is closely allied to Neuronema, Megalomus, Drepanepteryx, 



