S03fE /A PA NESE LEPID OPTEIL 1 —D \ 'A R. 



939 



PAPILIO XUTHUS Linnaeus. 



AGEHA-NO-CHO. 



Food plant: Citrus noh'tlU. 



The adult has a marked resemblance to 7*. nuichaot) Linnaeus; but 

 that this is of no systematic value and is probably mimetic, is shown 

 by the larva, which is nearly allied to that of demetrius. The young- 

 larva is not preserved in the collection before me, so 

 I can not sa}^ whether the primitive coloration persists 

 to the penultimate stage or not, thoug-h it apparently 

 does, since Oraeser remarks" on its resemblance to the 

 excrement of birds. 



The mature larva is smooth, dark green, the meta- 

 thoracic ocellar mark much as in demetrlns^ joined by 

 an irregular black line, which is imperfectly broken 

 into ringlets. The subventral coloration is modified 

 from the primitive mottled purple of deiiietrlus to a 

 darker shade of green, and the white exists as concrete 

 triangular blotches on the bases of the feet. The four 

 transverse bands of the subventral color in the posterior 

 metathoracic incisure, on abdominal segments 4-5, 7, 

 and 10, respectively, are olivaceous shaded and edged with tine black 

 lines. The positions of the obsolete tubercles are shown by reddish 

 spots. 



PAPILIO MACHAON Linnaeus. 



Fig. -1. — i^Ai'iLK 



XUTHIS, LARVA. 



K1-A(tKHA-CH0. 



Food plant: Daucns carota. 



This larva is well known in Europe, and Japanese specimens present 

 the charactertistic appearance. The larva of the American P. poly- 

 .I'cnes is marked with the same pattern. 



Family PIEKID.^^]. 



PIERIS RAPiE Linnaeus. 



MON-SCIO-CHO. 



Food plant: Bramica chin en sis. 



The well-known ''cabbage wornr' of Europe, now spread over the 

 world. The larva? are normal, as remarked ))v Fryer.* 



ffBerl. Ent. Zeit., p. 1888, p. 62. 



& Leech, Butt. China, Jap. and Corea, II, 1894, p. 458. 



