VARIATION OF A. LEVANA. 



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black broadest at outer angle, and inwardly clouded with crimson- 

 red; the abdominal area fuscous brown. Under side similar to above 

 but with more crimson-red. Expanse, 34 millim. 



Collection number, 706. 



Six males and one female taken at Daitozan (8500 ft.), Sept. 

 11th, 1906. 



Hab. Formosa. 



Erasmia picturata, sp. n. 



3 . Fore wings white, basal two outer thirds blackish, veins 

 whitish ; the basal third is traversed by three bands, the central one 

 yellow, and the others metallic blue ; the costal portion of the 

 blackish outer third extends to the middle of the wing and encloses 

 a round spot of the ground colour. Hind wings white, broadly 

 bordered with blackish on outer margin, the edges of this border, 

 and the veins, powdered with metallic blue. Fringes of all the wings 

 whitish. Expanse, 56 millim. 



Collection number, 1195. 



One male specimen from Suislia (Lake Candidius), October 

 1st, 1907. 



Hah. Formosa. 



VARIATION OF A. LEVANA, L. : COMPARATIVE 

 DESCRIPTION AND POSSIBLE SIGNIFICANCE OF 

 THE WING MARKINGS IN LEVANA. 



By T. Reuss 



A. levana and A. Icrana ab. 



On February 6th last I bred the above aberration* of A. lerana 

 from a summer pupa,f which should have produced var. j^^'orsa 

 last August, but had hybernated instead. It emerged after 

 being taken indoors for some days and then given an " early 



"•' The figure is somewhat enlarged. 



f One of twenty-one summer pupae from wild Mecklenburg larvae that 

 were kindly sent to me by Mr. Merrifield. 



