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I am able to follow the Japanese text. He took larvae on May 

 19 on yoshi ( ? Phragmites communis Trin. var. longivalvis Miq.) 

 and on utsugi (? Deutzia scahra Thunb.). Those on utsugi 

 pupated on May 26, and the imagoes emerged on June 7. The 

 imago of one larva taken on ibara also emerged on June 15. 

 From these imagoes he obtained a pair, which copulated, and 

 from the ova laid by the female young larvae emerged on June 18. 

 These pupated on July 10, and imagoes emerged on July 22. 

 From this he deduces that there are two broods in Gifu (Honshu) 

 and that there may possibly be three broods, the ova probably 

 hibernating. He says that the larva causes some injury to such 

 cereals as barley. My experience with the larva is that it is more 

 or less polyphagous. 



Imago. — The type of Cifima locuples Walker is, according to 

 Butler, a female, not a male as described by Walker, and comes 

 from Silhet, India. The type of Artaxia confusa Bremer is 

 figured as a male, but Bremer does not give the sex in his descrip- 

 tion. It was discovered by Radde in the Bureja Mountains and 

 Ussuri, both in eastern Siberia. 



Local distribution. — Honshu : Oiwake, Shinano Province 

 (Pryer) ; Yokohama, Musashi Province (Pryer) ; Yoshino, 

 Yamato Province, June, August (Wileynan) ; Nikko, Shimotsuke 

 Province, July, August (Wileman) ; Kobe, Settsu Province, June, 

 August (Wileman) . Hokkaido: Hakodate, Oshima Province, 

 June (Leech, Atidreivs) . Matsumura records confusa Bremer 

 from Hokkaido and Honshu. 



Time of appearance. — Larva, May; imago, June to August. 



General distribution. — Cifutia locuples: India; southern and 

 central China (Strand). Cifuna confusa: Eastern Siberia, 

 Amurland; Korea; Japan (Stj-and) . 



Genus LYMANTRIA Hubner 

 Lymantria Hubner, Verz. Bek. (1827), 160. 



Lymantria mathura Moore. 



Plate I, fig". 7, larva. Larva of Lymantria aurora Butler, ?. 



Japanese name, kashiwa-maimai. 



Lymantria mathura MoORE, Proc. Zool. Soc. London (1865), 806; 

 Leech. Trans. Ent. Soc. London (1899), 128, No. 433; Hampson, 

 Moths India (1892), 1, 464; Staudinger and Rebel, Cat. Lep. Pal. 

 (1901), 1, 117, No. 930; Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. London (1903), 

 489; Matsumura. Cat. Insect. Jap. (1905), 1. 43. No. 359; Thousand 

 Insects of Japan [Nihon Senchu Dzukai (Jap.)] (1909), suppl. 1, 

 46, No. 75, PI. 7, fig. 6, $; Strand, Seitz's Macrolep. Faun. Pal., 

 2, 128, PI. 20e, ?. 



