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Jap. (1905), 1, 2, No. 8; Matsumura, Thousand Insects of Japan 

 [Nihon Senchu-Dzukai (Jap.)] (1907), 4, 60, PI. 62, fig. 2, 2; Seitz, 

 Macrolep. of the World, Faun. Pal. (1906), 1, 9, PI. 2 a, d 1 $; 2 b, 

 <3 ?, f. aest.; Jordan, Seitz's Macrolep. of the World, Faun. Indo- 

 austral. (June 20, 1910), 9, 33; Miyajima, Jap. Butterfl. [Nihon 

 Cho-rui Dzusetsu (Jap.)] (1904), 76, PI. 3, fig. 2, 5; 71 (woodcut), 

 ova, fig. 1; larva, fig. 2; pupa, fig. 3. 



The pupa figured (Plate II, figs. 14-16) was taken at Kobe, 

 Settsu Province, Honshu, in July, 1901, and a male specimen 

 of P. alcinous emerged from it, but no record was kept of the 

 date. The larva figured (Plate II, fig. 12) was taken while it 

 was crawling upon the ground, at the same locality, in August, 

 1901, and pupated, but the imago failed to emerge. The pupa 

 taken in July, 1901, was similar in all respects to the one result- 

 ing from the larva of August, 1901, and I am satisfied that 

 the two pupa? are of the same species. I have also compared the 

 figures of my pupa with that shown by Miyajima. 16 He gives 

 a good woodcut in which the larva, pupa, and ova of P. alcinous 

 Klug are figured, together with the food plant, and states that 

 the larva feeds upon the following plants: Uma-no-suzukusa 

 (Aristolochia debilis S. and Z.) ; ikema (Cynanchum caudatum 

 Maxim.) ; kaga-imo, scientific name unknown; ao-tsuzura (Coc- 

 culus thunbergii DC), also known as tsuzura-fuji. The larva 

 figured by him also agrees with my original figure (Plate II, fig. 

 12), so that, although no imago ever developed from my larva, 

 I have no hesitation in referring it to P. alcinous. Nawa 1T also 

 gives a black and white figure of the pupa which agrees with my 

 figures as to form, but he does not give one of the larva. In the 

 Tokyo Zoological Magazine [Tokyo Dobutsugaku Zasshi (Jap.)], 

 there is a good uncolored plate showing the metamorphoses of 

 P. alcinous, but no allusion is made to this plate in the succeeding 

 Japanese text and, therefore, the author cannot be named. 



Pryer states that the larva feeds on Cocculus thunbergii DC, 

 and resembles a partially ripe mulberry and that the pupa 

 is most beautifully sculptured. The figures given (Plate II, 

 figs. 14-16) fully bear out his description of the pupa which is 

 yellowish in color and most delicately chiseled. Jordan describes 

 the larva as follows: 



Larva olive-brown, with numerous dark, light-edged spots; on the 6th 

 and 7th segments a very broad red-white oblique girth, which is dorsally 

 interrupted or strongly constricted; the tips of the tubercles reddish, the 

 upper lateral projections of the prothorax pale red with dark tips. 



"Japanese Butterflies (1904), 71. 



"Insect World (Konchu Sekai) (1907), 11. 559. 



