﻿NOTES ON JAPANESE LEPIDOPTERA AND THEIR 

 LARVAE: PART I 



By A. E. Wileman 



(Manila, P. I.) 



Three colored plates 



RHOPALOCERA 



While residing in Japan, I took a keen interest in the varied 

 and curious forms of lepidopterous larva? met with, an interest 

 further stimulated by the perusal of works such as those of 

 Owen Wilson and of Buckler. 



With the exception of Nawa, Nagano, Matsumura, Miyake, 

 and Sasaki, who have published articles in the Insect World 

 (Konchii Sekai) and in other periodicals, few Japanese authors 

 have devoted much attention to describing and figuring the larvae 

 of Japanese Lepidoptera which are comparatively unknown to 

 science, and I felt that a wide and almost inexhaustible field of 

 labor existed in this particular branch of entomological research. 

 Therefore, I decided to figure the most interesting larvae met 

 with in my collecting rambles which have extended to many 

 parts of Japan. As I was unable to make drawings of these 

 specimens, I engaged the services of a Japanese artist, Hisashi 

 Kaido, in order that they might be accurately represented. In 

 the course of two years, 1901 and 1902, while residing at Kobe 

 and Hakodate, I accumulated 200 colored drawings, some of 

 which will be used to illustrate this series of articles. 



Hisashi Kaidd, at the time that I engaged him, had no 

 experience in figuring larvae, but I think the general results 

 he has attained are very satisfactory. 



Apart from the pleasure which the enthusiastic lepidopterist 

 feels in being able to identify any curious larva he may meet by 

 referring to the plates of special works and to descriptions and 

 figures of the various stages of butterflies and moths, he may 

 render much valuable assistance to the specialist in classifying 

 species, and for this reason all individual efforts are welcome 

 in a field where the harvest is great but the laborers are few. 



For the scientific classification of Rhopalocera and Heterocera 

 not only a knowledge of structure, such as wing venation and 



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