NOTES ON JAPANESE LEPIDOPTERA AND THEIR LARV^: 



PART V 



By A. E. WiLEMAN 

 (London, England) 



TWO COLORED PLATES 



HETE'ROCERA 



LYMANTRIID^ 

 Genus DASYCHIRA Stephens 

 Dasychira Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. (1829), 2, 58. 



Dasychira conjuncta Wileman. 



Plate I, fig. 1, imago, c? (figured from the cotype) ; fig. 2, head. 

 Japanese name, yoshmo-dokuga. ' 



Dasychira conjuncta Wileman, Trans. Ent. Soc. London (1911), 270, 

 No. 271, d". 



Dasychira conjmicta seems to be allied to D. olga Oberthiir.- 

 As a figure of this species was not given when the type was 

 described, I take the present opportunity of figuring it from the 

 drawing of a cotype in my possession. I also append my original 

 description for convenience of reference. 



(S. Forewings grey, clouded with darker on the basal and outer marginal 

 areas; antemedial line blackish, inwardly oblique, elbowed at costa, post- 

 medial line blackish, curved and recurved to just below vein 2 where it is 

 connected with antemedial by a black bar, thence outwardly oblique to near 

 the outer angle; marginal line blackish, crenulate, commencing at apex and 

 projected inwards on vein 2; there are indications of a whitish, serrated, 

 submarginal line; fringes grey variegated with paler at the ends of the 

 nervules. Hindwings fuscous with blackish discal dot and marginal line; 

 fringes pale grey flecked with darker between the nervules. 



Underside whitish tinged with fuscous especially on the forewings; all 

 the wings have a dusky discal spot and postmedial line. 



Expanse 42 mm. 



Male type from Yoshino, province Yamato, Honshu, June, 1900. 



A series of eleven male specimens taken at Yoshino, province Yamato, 

 in June, 1895, 1899, 1900, and 1901. The series shows but little variation 



' This species has been named by me in Japanese after the locality 

 where the type was taken, Yoshino, Yamato Province, Honshu. 

 'Oberthiir, Etudes d. Entom. (1880), 5, 34, PI. 2, fig. 1, $. 



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