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Lasiommata goschkevitschii Men., Cat. Mus. Petr. (1855), 2, 121, PI. 

 10, fig. 4; Leech, Butterfl. China, Japan, Corea (1892-1893), 1, 

 52; Nagano, Nawa's Insect World [Konchu Sekai (Jap.)] (August 

 15, 1910), 14, 418, PI. 17, figs. 1-6, transf.; Seitz, Macrolep. of the 

 World, Faun. Pal. (June, 1908), 1, 90, PI. 33c, J ?; Fruhst., Seitz's 

 Macrolep. of the World, Faun. Indo-austral. (1911), 9, 324. 



Lasiommata gaschkevitschii Felder, Wien, ent. Mon. (1862), 6, 

 28; Pryer, Rhop. Nihon (1889), 32, PI. 9, fig. 11; Matsumura, Cat. 

 Insect Jap. (1905), 1, 14, No. 109; Matsumura, Thousand Insects 

 of Japan [Nihon Senchu Dzukai (Jap.)] (1907), 4, 101, PL 72, 

 fig. 8, $; Miyajima, Jap. Butterfl. [Nihon Chorui Dzusetsu (Jap.)] 

 (1904), 150, PL 16, fig. 8. 



Neope niphonica Butl., Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (1881), V, 7, 133. 



Neope japonica Butl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (1867), III, 19, 167. 



The larva figured (Plate II, fig. 7) was taken in July, 1901, 

 at Yoshino, Yamato Province, Honshu, on bamboo grass, sasa- 

 gusa ( ? Lophatherum datum Zoll.) . The imago failed to emerge 

 from the pupa resulting from this larva. Nagano gives lengthy 

 descriptions of the metamorphoses of this species including a 

 figure of the larva in his plate which agrees with my colored 

 figure. I am unable to follow the written description of his 

 larva with accuracy as it is in technical Japanese language, 

 and have therefore depended only on his figure for identification. 

 I think, however, that there can be no doubt that my larva is 

 identical with that of N. goschkevitschii, figured by Nagano on 

 a species of bamboo. 



The following description is taken from my original figure. 



Larva. — Length, 32 millimeters. Grayish brown with a yellow 

 tinge ; faint longitudinal mediodorsal dark lines ; subdorsal dark 

 spots and crosses; midlateral longitudinal dark line; series of 

 dark spiracular blotches; yellowish longitudinal subspiracular 

 stripe. 



Matsumura records this species from the Hokkaido (Yezo), 

 Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku, where it is very common. I have 

 captured it in all those islands from April to August. 



Fruhstorfer 21 remarks that "N. goschkevitschii reaches the 

 farthest north and inhabits all the islands from Hokkaido (Yezo) 

 to Formosa" and gives the following races : 



Neope japonica Butler, described from Hakodate, Hokkaido (Yezo). 

 Neope watanabei Mats., from Formosa (Hoppo). 



Fruhstorfer does not mention N. niphonica Butl. which was 

 described in 1881 from Nikko, Honshu. 



; ' Seitz's Macrolep. of the World, Faun. Indo-austral. (1911), 9, 324. 



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