XII. D. 4 Wileman: Japanese Lepidoptera • 235 



Insects of Japan [Nihon Senchu Dzukai (Jap).] (1911), suppl. 



3, 80, PI. 36, fig. 9, c?. 

 Aloa bifrons Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. (1855), 3, 705; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



(1892), 232. 

 Aloa leucothorax Feld., Wien. Ent. Mon. (1862), 6, 36; Kirby, Cat. 



Het. (1892), 232. 

 Spilosoma erubescens Moore, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (1877), IV, 20, 



89; Kirby, Cat. Het. (1892), 231. 

 Spilosoma rybakowi Alph., Rom. Mem. Lep. (1897), 9, 171, PI. 10, 



fig. 9, ^. 

 Hyarias oberthiiri Semp., Schmett. Phil. (1899), 2, 489. 

 Diacrisia robustum Hampson, Cat. Lep. Phal. (1901), 3, 316 (aberr.). 

 Diacrisia subcarnea var. fiavoventris Miyake, Bull. Coll. Agr., Tokyo 



Imp. Univ. (1909), 8, 162, ?, with orange-yellow, instead of red, 



abdomen. 



The larva figured (PL II, fig. 1) was taken in September (fig- 

 ured September 29), 1900, at Yoshino, Yamato Province, Honshu, 

 on mulberry, Japanese name, kuwa (Morus alba Linn.) ; and a 

 female imago emerged from the resulting pupa May 20, 1901. 

 Two other females emerged May 14 and 16, respectively, from 

 larvae taken in the same month at the same place. 



Miyake " describes the larva of Spilosoma subcarnea as 

 follows : 



Larva. Ochraceous yellow with long ochraceous hairs; head and legs 

 fulvous black; a brownish subdorsal line; tubercles greyish white. Food- 

 plant: mulberry-tree. [This agrees well with the original figure of my 

 larva.] 



Dyar " remarks : 



The larva is a large hairy Arctian of the shape of the North American 

 Estigmene acrea Drury, lightly colored as in pale specimens of Diarcrisia 

 virginica Fabricius. The head, thoracic feet and abdominal leg plates are 

 black. Body immaculate, except for broken mottled dark subdorsal and 

 substigmatal stripes. [This description was taken from a preserved speci- 

 men.] 



Local distribution. — Honshu : Tokyo, Musashi Province, April, 

 May, June, August {Wileman) ; Yoshino, Yamato Province, May, 

 June, August, September {Wileman). Shikoku: Hosono, lyo 

 Province, August {V/ileman) . Kyushu: Hikosan, Buzen Prov- 

 ince, August {Wileman) . It has been found in Honshu, Shikoku, 

 and Kyushu Islands; and Matsumura records it from Hokkaido 

 (Yezo), Honshu, and Ryukyu (Loochoo), 



Time of appearance. — Larva, September ; imago, April to Sep- 

 tember, Double-brooded ? 



'"Bull. Coll. Agr., Tokyo Imp. Univ. (1909), 8, 162. 

 ''Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. (1905), 28, 944. 



