NOTES ON JAPANESE LEPIDOPTERA AND THEIR 
LARVA: PART VI * 
By A. E. WILEMAN 
Of Dorking, England 
TWO COLORED PLATES 
HETEROCERA 
SATURNIADA 
Genus SAMIA Hiibner 
Samia cynthia, Drury. 
Plate 1, fig. 1, larva, third ? stage; fig. 2, larva, fourth ? stage; figs. 
8 and 4, larva, fifth ? stage, dorsal and lateral aspects; fig. 5, 
larva, sixth ? stage; fig. 5a, food plant. Larva of Samia pryeri. 
Japanese names: Shinju-san; aya-nishiki; mikazuki. 
Phalena cynthia Drury, Ill. Exot. Ent. 2 (1773) pl. 6, fig. 2; KirBy, 
Cat. Lep. Het. (1892) 748; LepcH, Proc. Zool. Soc. London (1888) 
634, No. 255; Trans. Ent. Soc. London (1898) 264, No. 4; HAMPSON, 
Moths Brit. India 1 (1892) 16; Moorg, Lep. East. Ind. Co. (1859) 
pl. 20, figs. 3, 3a; NAWA, Insect World (Konchi Sekai) 10 (1906) 
366, pl. 9, larva, pupa, imago 6; Matsumura, Cat. Insect. Japan 
(1905) 47, No. 383; Thousand Insects of Japan [Nihon Senchu 
Dzukai (Jap.)] (1909) suppl. 1, 40, No. 65, pl. 6, fig. 1, d; JORDAN, 
Seitz’s Macrolep. Faun. Pal. 2 (1911) 212. 
Attacus walkeri FELDER, Wien. Ent. Mon. 6 (1862) 34; Jordan, 
Seitz’s Macrolep. Faun. Pal. 2 (1911) 212. 
Attacus pryeri BUTLER, Proc. Zool. Soc. London (1878) 388; Ill. Typ. 
Lep. Het. 3 (1879) pl. 43, fig. 5; Pryer, Trans. Asiat. Soc. Japan 12 
(1888) 58, No. 196; SASAKI, Insects Injurious to Japanese Trees 
[Nihon Jimoku Gaichithen (Jap.)] ed. 3 (1910) pt. 3, 74, pl. 198, 
larva, cocoon, imago 2; JORDAN, Seitz’s Macrolep. Faun. Pal. 2 
(1911) 218, pl. 38, fig. a, .d. 
Jordan ! describes the larve and pup of the genus Samia as 
follows: 
Larve powdered with white; with six rows of fleshy thorns, which bear 
sparse bristles, the dorsal processes longer than the lateral ones in the 
earlier stages, later on the difference smaller. Cocoon long, pointed at 
both ends, usually wrapped up in a large or several small leaves. Pupa 
without bristles at the anal end. 
* The editors have been unable to verify the quotations in this article. 
*Seitz’s Macrolep. Faun. Pal. 2 (1911) 212. 
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