350 is^ocTUin.Ti. 



7462, Speiredonia japonica. (Plate CCIX. figs. 3 cj , -i $ •) 



Spirama jaijonica, Gucn. Noct. iii. p. 195 (1852). 

 Spirama simpliclor, Butl. Trans. Eiit. Soc. 1881, p. 198. 



S . Head and tegnlse deep red-brown ; palpi crimson at base ; 

 thorax red-brown mixed with greyish ochreous ; pectus red-broAvn ; 

 legs dark brown, the coxoe and fringes of hair on femora crimson ; 

 abdomen crimson, the two basal segments dorsally red-brown, the 

 four following segments with triangular black- brown patches, a 

 small spot on penultimate segment and lateral series of black bars. 

 Pore wing ochreous suffused with red-brown, the medial inner area 

 deeper red-brown ; antemedial line dark brown, exeurved below 

 costa, oblique and with black-brown suffusion beyond it below the 

 cell ; a very large inverted comma-shaped discoidal mark, black- 

 brown with some ochreous irroration at middle and slight ochreous 

 annuliis, the head defined by whitish below and on outer side, the 

 outer side of tail and inner side of head defined bj' a white line ; 

 some ochreous white in the sinus of the discoidal mark and a red- 

 brown fascia from above its head to the outer postmedial line with 

 an ochreous white streak above it ; two bbfckish postmedial lines, 

 wide apart towards costa and the inner linearising below the costa, 

 approximated and tilled in with black-brown towards inner margin, 

 exeurved towards costa, then oblique ; two waved brown sub- 

 terminal lines arising at vein 7, the inner line almost obsolete 

 above vein 5 ; the postmedial area with black streaks above and 

 below vein 6, the lower extending to the discoidal mark, and slight 

 white streaks above and below vein 8 before the two waved black 

 lines before termen. Hind wing with the basal half dark brown, 

 the terminal half ochreous tinged with red-brown and with dark 

 brown suffusion before the subterminal line ; medial line black- 

 brown defined on outer side by ochreous ; subterminal line double, 

 black-brown filled in with ochreous, the inner line diffused on inner 

 side ; a double waved blaok-brown line before termen ; cilia 

 greyish. Underside of both wings scarlet, the basal areas and veins 

 suffused with brown ; fore wing with two curved brown postmedial 

 lines and a subterminal line, a brown spot beyond the 1st post- 

 medial line between veins 5 and 3 ; hind wing with dark discoidal 

 point and curved brown medial, postmedial, and subterminal lines. 



5 . Thorax brownish white with dark brown band on meta- 

 thorax ; abdomen with the 1st three segments dorsally banded 

 black-brown and whitish, the terminal segments scarlet with 

 black-brown bands, narrower on ventral surface: fore wing with 

 the ground-colour brownish white ; hind wing with the basal area 

 brownish white, the medial area dark brown, the minutely waved 

 black medial line defined on inner side by whitish, on outer side by 

 a white band, the postmedial area pale reddish brown, the double 

 subterminal line filled in with white, the terminal area brownish 

 grey. 



Hah. Japan, Nikko {Maries), 1 ^ , Tokio {Maries), 2 S , ^2 

 type simjplicior, Yokohama {Jonas, Manley), 2 c? , 2 ^ j Nagasaki 



