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ANTHER^A SEMPERI Felder. 



Luzon, Philippines. The male has much smaller ocelli than the female. Evidently a 

 local form of A. pernyi. 



ANTHERffiA HARTU Moore. [1892.] 

 Manchuria. 



Imago. — A pale umber brown species, with rather large ocelli, ocher externally and on 

 inside faint purplish, concolorous with the extradiscal band common to both wings. [Jordan 

 describes it as dark brown, fringes bright yellow; ocelli almost alike on both pairs of wings, 

 surrounded by a narrow black ring, outer half yellow, inner half brownish red, transparent pupil 

 round, large.] 



Larva. — (Mature; one blown, very poor, and one alcoholic, turned black). 1 [Length 

 about 68 mm.] Body cylindrical, of usual Telea shape and size, segments moderately convex. 

 Lower lateral tubercles on pro thoracic segment, nine hairs in place of each dorsal tubercle; 

 two rather large broad low-conical dorsal tubercles on second and third thoracic segments, 

 each having five to six spines, and also hairs of unequal length; those of first and second 

 abdominal segments much smaller, about a third as large and the dorsal ones of segments 3 to 7 

 [sub] obsolete, represented by a low flattened small tubercle with six spinules, one longer than 

 the others; the single median tubercle on eighth segment is small, low, vestigial, with long 

 unequal stiff hairs. Anal legs dark with a paler (yellow?) line. Over the supraspiracular 



tubercle on second abdominal 

 segment is a clear, swollen, vit- 

 reous, roundish area, situated 

 between the spiracle and the 

 tubercle. Body with thickly 

 scattered minute short clavate 

 hairs. In the alcoholic specimen 

 the dorsal tubercles on second 

 and third thoracic segments are 

 rather large, but low, not promi- 

 nent. The tubercles are soft, perhaps partially erectile, the median one on eighth segment 

 quite large and about two-thirds as high as those on second and third thoracic segments. 

 Cocoon. — Oval [yellowish white], with a stalk. 



ANTHERffiA FRITHH Moore. 



Antheraca/rithii Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. Comp. II, p. 396, 1858. 



Antheraea frithii Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 256, No. 3, PL LXV, fig. 1, 1859. 



Antheraea frithii Butler, Illustrations Lep. Het., V, p. 59, PI. XCI, fig. S, 1881. 



9 Very near yama-mai. Same hue. Ocelli slightly larger and without the thickened 

 black spot on front side of ocellus of hind wings. Extradiscal band of hind wings more scal- 

 loped. J more distinct than 9 . Ochre yellow patch on costa near apex; forewing more fal- 

 cate, more deeply excavated; extradiscal lines on hind wing much more scalloped. Ocellus 

 of fore wing a little more elongated elliptical, not so round. 



[Darjiling.] 



ANTHER.EA HELFERI Moore. 



[Antheraea helferi Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. House, II (1859), p. 397.] 

 [Caligula Mferi Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het., I, p. 760.] 



Small, no clear space, with very falcate wings filled hi with scales and a black subapical 

 spot. Hind wing ocelli like yama-mai, but clear space obsolete, and black thickening is wider 

 than even in yama-mai. 



[Darjiling.] 



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,Fig. 19. A ntheraea hartii Moore. Knight del., from larva in British Museum. 



1 [Jordan states that it is green, with a golden spot at the base of most dorsal warts. 1 



