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The chief points of difference between this species and gemmata * 
are , its smaller size, the entire absence of the raised polished surfaces 
on the thorax, the evenness and the uniformity of the striae, and the 
comparatively larger size of the wax-like spots. The appearance of 
the first or basal spot in gemmata , which rests in the interstice of the 
fourth and fifth elytral striae, is as though the spot had j 3 ushed aside 
the punctures which had then opened and formed a “setting” to it. In 
the present species, the spot covers two interstices ; and the 5th stria, 
running through it, is distinctly visible. The sexual characters of both 
injects aie alike. When H. cereo-punctata is alive, it is exceedingly 
like a Bupi esfis, and this similitude is enhanced by a portion of the 
red colour of the thighs protuding over the edges of the body, giving 
the insect the appearance, when viewed from above, of having six red 
spots on its margin. I have a black species of JSlelandrya with legs 
(yellow) coloured in the same manner, anel as it walks over dead 
branches it looks like a spotted Chalcophora . 
I obtained the Helota in J une, off dead branches of young oaks, 
which had been killed early in the spring by a forest-fire. 
Grand Hotel, Yokohama: 
13 th January, 1881. 
Asopia Lienigialis, Zell., a moth new to Britain. — I captured a Pyralis at light 
m August, 1879, which I put aside as a variety of P. farinalis, but in the last 
August and September I took three others, all at light. I then saw that it 
was something new and sent a specimen to Mr. C. G. Barrett, who informed me that 
it was Asopia Lienigialis, Zell., a species as yet only recorded as occurring in Livonia 
and Finland. Another collector here (Mr. Bryan) has also taken three or four 
specimens. M . Thompson, 183, Stantonbury, Stoney Stratford, Bucks: February 
26th, 1881. 
[A type of Asopia Lienigialis from Professor Zeller differs from farinalis in 
the position of the first whitish line, which is nearer the middle of the wing the 
basal blotch being therefore larger and the median area smaller than in that species. 
The second pale line is more regularly curved and originates in a broader pale streak 
or blotch on the costal margin. In the hind-wings the first delicate pale striga, 
which in farinalis forms a continuation of the first line on the fore-wings, is, in 
Lienigialis, placed more perpendicularly so that it originates opposite the middle of 
the basal blotch of the fore-wings. Zeller’s specimen closely resembles farinalis in 
colour, but Mr. Thompson’s specimens are more fuscous— approaching the colour of 
Pyralis glaucinalis the markings, however, agree accurately. C. G. B ] 
[The occurrence with us of this Northern species, so closelj allied to our old 
friend P. farinalis, is of extreme interest. Baron y. Nolcken in his Fauna of 
Esthonia, Li vonia, and Courland, mentions that he had only met with a single 
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