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Three males also emerged on July 6 and 11, 1901, from other 

 larvae taken about the same time. 



The following descriptions are taken from my original figures. 



Larva. — Length, 48 millimeters. Yellowish green; horns on 

 head pink tinged; mediodorsal longitudinal dark green stripe; 

 subdorsal midlateral supraspiracular longitudinal green stripes; 

 whitish longitudinal suprapedal stripe. 



Pupa. — Yellowish green; three darker lines on dorsum; wing 

 cases edged with yellow. Suspended from food plant by tail. 



Matsumura records the species from Hokkaido (Yezo) and 

 Honshu and also from Formosa, Korea, China, and eastern 

 Siberia (Ussuri and Amurland). I have taken the imago in 

 Yamato Province, Honshu, and also in Iyo Province, Shikoku. 

 It appears to be a mountain species except in Hokkaido, where 

 it inhabits the plains. It flies in July and August. 



Subgenus Harima Moore 



Lethe Hubner, Verz. bek. Schmett. (1827), 56. 



Harima Moore, Lep. Ind. (1892), 1, 299 (type, callipteris Butl.). 

 Sinchula Moore, Lep. Ind. (1892), 1, 275; Fruhstorfer, Seitz's 

 Macrolep. of the World, Faun. Indo-austral. (1911), 9, 313. 



Lethe (Harima) callipteris Butler. 



PI. Ill, figs. 23-24, dorsal aspect of segments; fig. 25, head; fig. 26, larva; 

 figs. 27-28, pupa; fig. 29, food plant. 



Japanese name, hime-kimadara-hikage. 



Neope callipteris Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (1877), IV, 19, 

 92; Pryer, Rhop. Nihon (1889), 32, PI. 10, fig. 2; Leech, Butterfl. 

 China, Japan, Corea (1892-1893), 1, 36, PI. 6, figs. 3 d 1 , 4 $; Miya- 

 jima, Jap. Butterfl. [Nihon Chorui Dzusetsu (Jap.)] (1904), 148, PI. 

 16, fig. 6; Matsumura, Cat. Insect. Jap. (1905), 1, 14, No. 110; 

 Matsumura, Thousand Insects of Japan [Nihon Senchu Dzukai 

 (Jap.)] (1907), 4, 103, PI. 72, fig. 10, $; Seitz, Macrolep. of the 

 World, Faun. Pal. (June 23, 1908), 1, 86, PI. 31e. 



The larva figured (Plate III, fig. 26), was taken in June, 1902, 

 at Hakodate, Oshima Province, Hokkaido (Yezo), on bamboo 

 grass, sasa-gnsa (? Lophatherum elatum Zoll.). It pupated on 

 July 4, 1912, and a female imago emerged from the pupa result- 

 ing from it on July 19, 1902. A male emerged on August 10, 

 1902, from a second larva taken. 



The following descriptions are taken from my original figures. 



Larva. — Length, 35 millimeters. Bluish green; mediodorsal 

 longitudinal green stripe edged with yellow lines; subdorsal and 

 midlateral longitudinal yellow stripes; white suprapedal longi- 

 tudinal stripe; horns of head tipped with pink. 



Pupa. — Bluish green; four rows of white spots on dorsum 

 and thorax. Suspended by tail from food plant. 



