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It will be interesting to discover its western limits, as 

 quadripunctaria quadripunctaria occurs in Syria. There is a 

 specimen in the National Collection from the Amauus Mts.. 

 near Alexandretta, and the Armenian specimens of splendidior 

 were taken 600 miles due east of this, beyond the Tigris. 



Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.), 

 S. Kensington. 



ON A NEW SPECIES OF GENUS CALPE FBOM JAPAN. 

 By A. E. Wileman. 



In the National Collection of the British Museum (Natural 

 History) there are three specimens of a new Calpe which have 

 hitherto been included in the series of Calpe minuticomis, Guenee, 

 but have now been separated and are unnamed, one male from 

 Chang-yang, West China (A. E. Pratt, July, 1888), and two 

 females labelled "Hakodate" and " Yezo" (Andrews) respectively. 

 Hakodate, I may state, is situated in the Island of Yezo, now 

 more commonly referred to by Japanese as Hokkaidd, so that 

 both these Japanese specimens hail from Hokkaido, or Yezo. In 

 the same series there is - also exhibited an inflated larva of 

 minuticomis (ex Green Collection, Ceylon), coloured figures of the 

 larva and pupa drawn by Moore, and a preserved pupa shell from 

 the Moore Collection. Moore also figures and describes the larva 

 and pupa of minuticomis in 'Lepidoptera of Ceylon,' vol. iii, p. 78, 

 pi. cliii, fig. 3, imago ; fig. 3a, larva ; fig. unnumbered, of pupa, 

 1884-7. 



I have in my Japanese collection four specimens of this new 

 Calpe, which agree well with the above-named three specimens 

 of the British Museum series, namely, two males bred at 

 Hakodate, Hokkaido, on August 6th and 7th, 1902 ; one male 

 bred at Hakodate probably about the same time as the two 

 preceding males ; and one female received at Hakodate in 1902 

 from the Bight Bev. Bishop Andrews, Bishop of Hokkaido, taken 

 by him in Hokkaido, but neither dated nor localised. One of 

 these four specimens was bred from a larva painted by a Japanese 

 artist on July 8th, 1902, whom I employed at Hakodate for the 

 purpose of figuring the larvae of various Japanese Lepidoptera. 

 This drawing differs altogether from the coloration and markings 

 of the larva of minuticomis, Guenee, as exhibited in the series of 

 that species in the British Museum Collection, and as described 

 and figured by Moore in his ' Lepidoptera of Ceylon.' Moreover, 

 a critical comparison of the series of minuticomis in the British 



