S03IE JAPANESE LEPIDOPTERA—DYAR. 



943 



Family SATURNIID.E. 



ACTIAS SELENE Hiibner, var. ARTEMIS Bremer. 

 0-AO-GA. 



Food plant: Alnus mar it! ma. 



The larva is green, with tubercles rather large, yellow with black 

 basal rings, the subdorsal ones of joints 3 and 4 and single dorsal one 

 of joint 12 larger than the others. Tubercle hairs black; white sec- 

 ondary hairs scattered over the body. A yellow substigmatal line. 

 Spiracles red with yellow center. Head and joint 2 green, anal plates 

 and tips of anal abdominal feet red brown, edged with yellow. 



This form is close to the Asiatic setene., but the larva has a distinct 

 lateral line which is not mentioned by Moore for selene nor shown in 

 his tigure.'^ 



CALIGULA JAPONICA Moore. 



KURI-KEMUSHI. 



Food plant: Cantnea, vulgaris^ var. japonlca. 



Doctor Packard has described the larva at length, giving all the 

 stages.* 



Family ARCTIID^?^. 



CAMPTOLOMA INTERIORATA Walker. 

 SARASA-MON-GA. 



his Moths of 



Food plant: Querciis serrata. 



Hampson classes this genus among the Arctiidje in 

 India (1S94) and is followed hy Leech;' but I think it 

 might be better placed in the Noctuidw. Hampson has 

 in fact omitted the genus from the Arctiidse in the Cat. 

 Lep. Phalffina^ {1901). Vein 8 of the hind wings is 

 united to vein 7 for a short distance at base, which is 

 characteristic of the Arctiidee, but the larva is a Noctuid. 

 It does not appear to be a degenerate form, the arrange- 

 ment of the single hairs appearing primitive. Appar- 

 ently we have here the origin of the Arctiidse from 

 the Noctuida?. The eggs are laid in a mass on the back 

 of the leaf, entirely covered by the dark-red scales from 

 the abdomen of the female moth. The specimens before 

 me are shrunken, but appear to have been spheroidal, 

 about one-half as high as wide, evenl}' rounded, circular from vertical 

 aspect, smooth without prominent sculpture, whitish; diameter about 

 0.6 mm. 



«Lep. Ceylon, II, 1883, p. 124, pi. cxxvi, fig. la. 

 sProc. Am. Acad. Arts and Sci., XXXIX, 1904, p. 564. 

 c Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1899, p. 164. 



Fig. 5.— CAMPTO- 

 LOMA INTERIO- 

 RATA, LARVA. 



