NOTES ON JAPANESE LEPIDOPTERA AND THEIR LARV^: 



PART IV ' 



By A. E. WiLEMAN 

 (London, England) 



TWO COLORED PLATES 



HETEROCERA 



AGARISTID^ 



Genus CHELONOMOEPHA Motschulsky 



Chelonomorpha Motschulsky, Etud. d'Ent. (1860), 9, 30. 



Chelonomorpha japona Motschulsky. 



Plate I, fig. 1, larva; fig. 2, food plant. 

 Japanese name, toraga." 

 Chelonomorpha japona Motschulsky, Etud. d'Ent. (1860), 30; Leech, 



Trans. Ent. Soc. London (1899), 212, No. 681; Hampson, Cat. Lep. 



Phal. (1901), 3, 529; Matsumura, Cat. Insect. Jap. (1905), 1, 112, 



No. 969; Kirby, Cat. Het. (1892), 30; Jordan, Seitz's Macrolep. 



Faun. Pal. (1906), 3, 6, PL I b; Matsumura, Thousand Insects of 



Japan [Nihon Senchu Dzukai (Jap.)] (1910), suppl. 2, 69, PI. 23, 



fig. 1, <s. 

 Etisemia villicoides Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (1875), IV, 15, 



141, PL 13, fig. 2 {= japona Motsch.). 

 Eusemia japana Leech, Proc. Zool. Soc. London (1888), 613, No. 163. 

 Chelonomorpha austeni Moore, Lep. Atk. (1879), 11; Hampson, Moths 



India (1894), 2, 154; Cat. Lep. Phal. (1901>, 3, 529, fig. 231, ?; 



Jordan, Seitz's Macrolep. Faun. Pal. (1906), 3, 6, PI. I b. 



The larva figured (Plate I, fig. 1) was taken in September 

 (figured September 15), 1902, at Hakodate, Oshima Province, 

 Hokkaido, on shiode (Sviilax herbacea Linn. var. nipponica 

 Maxim.), and I bred a female imago from it July 7, 1903. 



^ The first paper of this series was printed in This J'ournal, Sec. D 

 (1914), 9, 247-268, 3 pis.; Part II, in (1915), 10, 281-306, 3 pis.; Part III, 

 in (1915), 10, 345-364, 3 pis. 



'In his Catalog-US Insectorum Japonicum [sic] (1905), 112, Matsumura 

 gives the Japanese name of toraga to Mimeiisemia persimilis Butl., and 

 in his Nihon Senchu Dzukai (1910), 69, he gives the same name to Che- 

 lonomorpha japona Motsch. 



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