NO. 1412. 



l^OME JAPANESE LEPIDOPTERA—DYAR. 



947 



Family NYCTEOLID.5^:. 



EARIAS CHROMATARIA Walker. 



Fig. 8.— Eakias chko 

 mataria, labva. 



WATA-NO-RINMUSHI. 



Food plant: Gossyphim, herhaceum. 



If at all abundant, this must be a serious pest for cotton. The 

 young larva is mounted between bracts, the mature one within a boll, 

 the contents of which it has destroyed; another is placed upon aflowei-. 



Head rounded, bilobed, small, withdrawn into joint 

 2, black, purple on the lobes, reddish on the sides, su- 

 tures of clypeus very broadly whitish, clypeus black 

 in the center. Bod}^ robust, thick, uniforni, with two 

 rows of ciliated papilla^ corresponding to tubercles ii 

 and iv, other tubercles small with long single setge. Purplish brown, a 

 white subgeminate dorsal l)and, widened on joints T-8 and 9-11. Tuber- 

 cles of joints 2 to 1: broadly ringed with orange; orange spots subdorsally 

 and substigmatally on the abdominal segments. Spiracles black; feet 

 normal; subdorsal papillw of joints 3, 4, fi, 9, 12 black, the rest white. 

 Cocoon of white silk with vertical slit for emergence 

 ^/ as usual in the family. Pupa without cremaster. 



Family NOTODONTID^E. ' 



PHALERA FLAVESCENS Bremer and Grey. 



SAKURA-KEMUSHI. 



Food plants: Pyrns mains. 



Eggs laid in a patch. Shape of two-thirds of a 

 sphere, white and smooth, slightly shagreened; a cir- 

 cular clearer vertical area; diameter, 0.7 mm. 



The larva has the structure of the North American 

 genus Datana. The young larva (stage iv) is dark- 

 wine red, head, shields, thoracic feet and spiracles 

 black. Traces of longitudinal pale lines on the sides, 

 a subdorsal and a lateral visible. Tubercles l^lack; i, 

 rather large; ii, small; iii, iv, and v, small; iv, behind the spiracle, 

 normal. Hair short, white, nearly lost in the numerous short secon- 

 dary ones, which are thick subventrally, and obscure tubercle vi. In 

 the last stage the larva is entirely black with scarcely a trace of lines 

 (the subdorsal showing faintl}" intersegmentally). Hair secondary, the 

 primary tubercles indistinguishable, short, white, tufted subdorsally on 

 the segments. A few long ones, especially anteriorly and subventrally. 

 Head elliptical, higher than wide, slightly bilobed, black, shagreened, 

 with many white hairs. 



The pupa is mahogany brown, as in Datana^ the cremaster with 

 short spines, in two groups. 



Fk;. 9.— Phalera fi,a 

 vescens, larva. 



