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ANTHER^A Hiibner. 



[Antherxa Hiibner, Verz. bek. S^hmett. (1S22?), p. 152. Type, according to Kirby, A. nylitta Drury.] 



[Rothschild, Nov. Zool., II (1895), pp. 43-44, arranges the species thus:] 



1. A. assamensis (Helf.) 



2. A. Tielferi Moore. [Darjiling.] 



3. A. perrotteti (Guer.). [Pondicherry.] 



4. A. papliia (Linn.). [Java, Ainboina.] ' 



5. A. andamana Moore. [Andaman Islands.] 



6. A. mylitta (Drury). [India.] 



ab. cingalesa Moore. 



7. A. semperi Feld. [Luzon, P. I.] 



8. A. pernyi (Guer.). [North China.] 



subsp. roylei Moore. [Darjiling.] 

 ab. confuci Moore. [Shanghai.] 

 ab. sJierviUei Moore. 



9. A. larissa (Westw.). [Java.] 



10. A.fritTiii Moore. [Darjiling.] 



ab.fraterna Moore. [Himalayas.] 



11. A. billitonensis Moore. [Billiton Island.] 



12. A. yama-mai (Guer.). [Japan.] 



[Rothschild states that no two specimens are alike, and treats the following 

 variations or aberrations as synonyms: sergestus (Westw.), rnorosa Butl. 

 Jutzina ~Butl.,f entoni Butl., calida Butl.] 



13. A. sciron (Westw.). [Waigiou.] 



14. A. pristina Walk. [Papua.] 



[Jordan (1910) described A. castanea from Assam. Many other species have been described 

 by Moore (1892), Swinhoe (1892, 1893), Hampson (1892), and Lucas.] 



[Watson, Wild Silk Moths of the World (Manchester, 1912), has given colored figures of 

 A. yama-mai (GueY.), A. compta Rothschild, A. mylitta (Drury), A. pernyi (Guer.), and A. anda- 

 mana Moore. He also figures the cocoons of all of these except compta. A. andamana is a curi- 

 ous plum-colored species, the wings with the ocelli relatively small, the anterior wings of the 

 male very strongly falcate.] 



ANTHERXA YAMA-MAI Guerin. 



Plates XXVI, figs. 2-5; XLVII, figs. 4-6. 



[Bombyx yama-mai Guerin, Rev. Zool. (2) XIII (1861), p. 435; Pis. 11-13.] 



I am indebted to Prof. Sasaki for the eggs, which hatched at the end of March. 



Larva. — Stage I: Freshly hatched. Length 6 mm. Head large, chestnut red. Body 

 thick, of the general saturnian shape of the larva of Telea, etc., at the same age. Body straw- 

 yellow, with a narrow black and a lateral or subdorsal black stripe, the latter a little narrower 

 than the dorsal stripe; this dorsal stripe stops at the median tubercle on the eighth abdominal 

 segment, while behind this tubercle is a transverse black line or suture between the eighth and 

 ninth segments. 



The setae or hairs are at first brown, very soon becoming black, but the tubercles at first 

 are all yellow; afterwards they begin to turn black at the base, the ends remaining yellow; at the 

 end of the stage they all become black. Thus, when from 24 to 36 hours old, the two dorsal 

 tubercles on the third thoracic tubercle become black, as also the median one on the eighth 

 abdominal segment. There is also a black triangular patch on the suranal plate, and one on 

 the side of each anal leg. 



The tubercles of the second and third thoracic segments are very large and conical; the 

 median tubercle of the eighth abdominal segment is double, high; the two dorsal ones on the 

 ninth segment are high, and the supraspiracular tubercles are prominent. 



' [The A. paphia of Kirby's Catalogue, from West Africa, is Nudaurelia dione (Fabr.).J 



