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This species appears to be confined to the Japanese Islands. 

 Matsumura records it from Hokkaido (Yezo), Honshu, and 

 Kyushu, and I have taken it in Kyushu. It flies from July to 

 September. 



Pryer states that it is a mountain insect. This is quite true 

 in Honshu and Kyushu Islands, as I discovered when collecting 

 there, but at Hakodate in Hokkaido, which is a great deal 

 farther north, it inhabits the plains as well as the mountains, 

 like several other species, which in the more southern parts 

 of Japan are only found in the mountains, but which in Hokkaido 

 occur commonly in the plains; for example, Vanessa io Linn, 

 and Lasiommata epimenides Men. I found L. callipteris 

 especially abundant in July and August on the summit of the 

 Raiden Toge (Raiden Pass), in Hokkaido, at an elevation of 

 500 meters (1,500 feet) where the vegetation mainly consisted 

 of bamboo grass, or sasa, the food plant of the larva. 



Seitz 25 remarks : 



L. callipteris has the appearance of being a small form of labyrinthea 

 Leech, from central and western China in July, but the male is without the 

 dentate bandlike scent organ found in that species. Callipteris has, hither- 

 to, only been known from Japan; the specimen from which our figure 

 is taken and which belongs to Tring Museum, England, however bears the 

 locality "Kashmir." If that be not an error in labeling, I am inclined to 

 regard callipteris Butl. and labyrinthea Leech, in spite of the difference 

 in the scent organ, as being localized forms of one widely distributed 

 species. 



Genus MYCALESIS Hiibner 



Mycalesis Hubner, Verz. bek. Schmett. (1827), 55; Seitz, Macrolep. 

 of the World, Faun. Pal. (1908), 1, 80; Fruhstorfer, Seitz'a 

 Macrolep. of the World, Faun. Indo-austral. (1911), 9, 330. 



Subgenus Sadarga Moore 



Sadarga Moore, Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. (1880), 157. 



Mycalesis (Sadarga) gotama Moore. 



PL III, fig. 8, larva; fig. 9 head; figs. 10-11, dorsal aspect of segments; 

 fig. 12, food plant; figs. 13-14; pupa; figs. 15-16, pupa previous to 

 emergence. 



Japanese name, hime-janome. 



Mycalesis gotama Moore, Cat. Lep. E. I. C. (1857), 1, 232; Pryer, 

 Rhop. Nihon (1889), 30, PL 9, fig. 1; Leech, Butterfl. China, Japan, 

 Corea (1892-1893), 1, 14; Nawa, Insect World [Konchu Sekai 

 (Jap.)] (1900), 4, 373, PL 10, figs, transf. larva, pupa, imago, food 

 plant; Miyajima, Jap Butterfl. [Nihon Chorui Dzusetsu (Jap.)] 

 (1904), 145, PL 16, fig. 1; Matsumura, Cat. Insect Jap. (1905), 

 1, 15, No. 118; Matsumura, Thousand Insects of Japan [Nihon 



"Macrolep. of the World, Fauna Pal. (1908), 1, 86. 



