Heterocera from China, Japan, and Corea. 129 



Lymantria aurora, v a,r. ficsca. Leech, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1888, p. 629. 



There were specimens from Oiwake, Yokohama, Yesso, 

 Loochoo, and the Kiirile Isles, in Fryer's collection. I 

 obtained the species at Nagahama, Tsuruga, Sendai, and 

 Gensan. Seven female examples were received from 

 Oniei-shan, where they were captured in June and July. 



The male varies in depth of colour, the darkest, of 

 which I have three specimens from Nngahama and one 

 from Fryer's collection, I have named var. ftcsca. 



Dr. Staudinger (Rom. sur Lep., vi, p, 312) states that in 

 the Atkinson collection there was a row of grandis, all 

 females, and a row of mafJmra, all males, and that as the 

 latter closely resembled aurora $ he concluded that they 

 represented the sexes of the same species. He is further 

 of opinion that the specimen Butler figures (111. v, pi. xci, 

 fig. 1) as grandis '$, which nearly resembles the female of 

 that species in appearance, is probably the male of another 

 species, perhaps carncola, Moore. 



Hampson (Moths Brit. Ind., i, p. 465) describes the 

 male of grandis {—maculosa, Walk.) as having white 

 primaries, and states that the female differs from mathura 

 in the frons being blackish and the 2nd joint of palpus 

 having a black spot. He gives Ceylon as the habitat of 

 the species. 



Possibly the females referred to by Staudinger as grandis 

 are really mathura. In a series of eight examples of 

 grandis in the late Otto Moller's Darjeeling collection only 

 one is of the male sex, and this has all the wings white, 

 the primaries have the markings of the female faintly 

 indicated, the bands being reduced to lunules. There are 

 no specimens representing male aurora in Moller's 

 collection. 



Distrihution. North - West Himalayas ; Sikhim 

 (Haw/pson) ; Amurland ; Japan ; Yesso; Kurile, Isles ; 

 Loochoo ; Corea ; Northern and Western China. 



434. Lymantria heairix. 



Bomhyx heatrix, Stoll., Cram. Suppl. Pap. Exot., v, p. 173, 



pi. xl, fig. 2 (1790). 

 Lymantria ??iar92?iato,Walk.,Cat.Lep.Het., iv, p. 877 (1855); 



Butl., 111. Typ. Lep. Het., v, pi. xc, fig. 12 (1892). 



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