This study was conducted to investigate the change of moth communities by the effect of forest fire in Samcheok, Korea. Moths were collected 4 times a year from 2006 to 2009 with UV light traps at 3sites: Unburned area (Site 1), Surface fire area (Site 2), and Crown fire area (Site 3). A total of 3,804 individuals belonging to 727 species from 30 families were captured at the 3 sites. A total of 3,804 individuals belonging to 727 species from 30 families were captured at the 3 sites: 1,727 individuals of 505 species (27 families) at Site 1, 1,193 individuals of 353 species (24 families) at Site 2, 885 individuals of 340 species (25 families). The index of similarity (Index α) was higher between Site 2 and 3 in 2006, while higher between Site 1 and 2 in 2009. Moths were grouped into 16 categories by hosts of the larva stage. Based on our results, we discussed the change of moth communities by the effect of forest fire.

We investigated ground beetles in riverbank of the Yamato River in Nara and Osaka Prefectures，to elucidate changes in the species diversity and assemblage structure．Ground beetles were collected with unbaited pitfall traps once a week from April to December 2006 at five sites; sandy and grassy riverbanks in Ikaruga (Site 1) and Sangoh Towns, Nara Prefecture (Site 2)，a gravelly riverbed in a valley in Kashiwara City (Site 3)，and sandy and grassy riverbanks with willow trees in Fujiidera (Site 4) and Matsubara Cities，Osaka Prefecture (Site 5)． A total of 4,319 individuals belonging to 53 species from two families were captured at the 5 sites. Species richness was the highest at Site 4 (40 spp.), higher at Sites 2, 5 and 1 (31, 30 and 29 spp. respectively), and the lowest at Site 3 (19 spp.). Compared with results in 1988 (Ishii etal., 1996), species richness of both small-and middle-sized specie sand both temperate and northern species increased, and 2 southern species and 2 species endemic to Japan were newly recorded. It should be noted that large numbers of Bembidion lissonotum and Nobria lewisi, "gravel riverspecialists", were caught at Site3. Our results demonstrate that ground-beetle fauna was well maintained in riverbank of the Yamato River in last 18 years.

The genus Synanthedon Hübner, 1819 belong to family Sesiidae described about 51 species in the Palearctic region (Špatenka et al., 1999). Genus Synanthedon characterized by following characters (Špatenka et al., 1999): Antenna occasionally with a white apical spot; labial palpus smooth or weakly tufted; transparent areas of forewing (ATA, PTA, ETA) usually present; hindwing transparent; abdomen with large anal tuft in male. Matsumura (1931a, b) reported two species of the genus for the first time from Korea, they are mainly studied by Inoue et al. (1982), Park et al. (1983), Park (1986), and Arita et al. (2004). Presently, genus Synantedon have included the following eight species in Korea (Arita et al., 2004): S. bicingluata (Staudinger, 1887), S. ulmicola Yang & Wang, 1989, S. haitangvora Yang, 1977, S. unocingulata Bartel, 1912, S. velox (Fixsen, 1887), S. tenuis (Butler, 1878), S. martjanovi Sheljuzhko, 1919, and S. quercus (Matsumura, 1911). In this study, four new species belonging to the genus are described based on morphological characters.