A DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF A COLLECTION OF EARLY 

 STAGES OF JAPANESE LEPIDOPTERA. 



B}'^ Harrison G. Dyar, 



CuModiun uf Lepldoptrra. 



This collection was prepared by Mr. Y. Nawa, of Gifu, Japan, and 

 exhibited at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri. 

 Afterwards it was brought to Washington by Mr. U. Nawa and pre- 

 sented to the U. S. Department ot Agriculture. The specimens are 

 now in the U. S. National Museum. 



Fifty-four species are represented, the adults, with pupte, larvte, 

 and eggs of many, at least the larvje of all. Of many of the 

 species 1 tind no pul)lished account of the early stages, and these 

 are therefore described in this paper. Most of the 

 species are of economic importance, being injurious 

 to cultivated plants. 



Family PAPILIONID^E. 



PAPILIO SARPEDON Linnaeus. 

 AOSU J I-AGEHA-CHO. 



Food plant: Cinnmnontum, camphora. 



The larva agrees in general with the excellent tigure 

 by Scott," ])ut is less diversified in color. It is en- 

 tirely velvety green, with faint lighter spottings, the 

 thorax being dark green, and not of a different yel- 

 lowish shade. There is no violet shading subven- 

 trally nor on the terminal abdominal segments as in the Australian 

 larva. The subventral and pedal lines are pale yellow. The sub- 

 dorsal angles of the metathoracic segment are blunt and rounded, not 

 long and pointed as in Scott's tigure. They are yellow with a black 

 ring at the base. The scent organ is protruded in the specimen, but 

 has been broken. 



Fig. 1.— Papilio sar- 

 pedon, larva. 



"Australian Lepidoptera, Australian Museum, Sydney, II, 1891, pi. xvii. 



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