230/ The Philippine Journal of Science 1917 



The following description is taken from my original figure : 



Larva. — Bluish white, marked with many irregular black 

 spots and dashes; head black; legs, prolegs, and claspers black; 

 sej>7nent 2 (head counting as segment 1) orange with transverse 

 series of small black spots ; segment 12 dorsally orange with four 

 black spots; anal shield black; a faint suprapedal orange stripe 

 from segm.ent 3 to 12, more conspicuous over prolegs on segments 

 7, 8, 9, and 10. 



Local distribution. — Hokkaido (Yezo) : Hakodate, Oshima 

 Province, May, July {Leech, Wileman) . Honshu : Nikko, 

 Shimotsuke Province, July (Wileman). 



Chelonomorpha japona seems to be a mountain species, as I 

 have never met with it in the plains except in Hokkaido. Matsu- 

 mura records it fcom Hokkaido and Honshu. 



Time of appearance. — Larva, September ; imago, June and July. 



General distribution'. — Central and northern Japan in June 

 and July; western and central China; northern India (Hampson, 

 Jordan) . 



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Genus ROESELIA Hiibner 

 Roeselia Hubnee, Verz. (1827), 397. 



Roeselia mandschuriana Oberthiir. 



Plate I, fig. .3, larva; fig. 4, food plant; fig. 5, head and dorsal process. 



Japanese name, Hakodate, kobuga.* 



Erastria mandschuriana Oberthur, Etud. d'Ent. (1880), 5, 83, PI. 2, 

 fig. 9; KiRBY, Cat. Het. (1892), 371; Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. 

 Hist. (1881), V, 7, 236; Leech, Proc. Zool. Soc. London (1888), 

 609, No. 140; Stgr., Rom. Mem. Lep. (1892), 6, 257; Leech, Trans. 

 Ent. Soc. London (1899), 210, No. 676; Hampson, Cat. Lep. Phal. 

 (1900), 2, 74, fig. 19, d; Stgr. and Reb., Cat. Lep. Pal. (1901), 1, 

 859, No. 4097; Matsumura, Cat. Insect. Jap. (1905), 1, 166, No. 

 1410; Seitz, Macrolep. Faun. Pal. (1910), 2, 46, PI. 10 e. 



Nola albula Fixsen (nee Hiibner) var. a, mandschurica [sic— 'mand- 

 schuriana'] Oberthur, Rom. Mem. Lep. (1887), 3, 327. 



The larva figured (Plate I, fig. 3) was taken in July (figured 

 July 5), 1902, at Hakodate, Oshima Province, Hokkaido (Yezo), 

 on cherry, Japanese name, sakura ( ? Prunus pseudocerasus 

 Lindl.). 



This larva died, but several imagoes were obtained from other 

 larvae taken at the same time and place; one of these emerged 



' This moth is unnamed in Japanese by Matsumura, and I have, there- 

 fore, named it. 



