X, D. 5 Wileman: Japanese Lepidoptera, Part II 299 



vertical horns on segment 12, base yellow and blacVtipped, from 

 these the larva darts filamentary tentacles, when irritated. 

 These tentacles, which are armed with hairs at the apex, strongly 

 resemble the ciliated antennse of a bombycid moth and are very 

 well represented in Nawa's -" figure of the full-grown larva. The 

 markings in his figures, however, do not seem to agree well with 

 those of my specimen. Nawa represents his larva as having a 

 series of subdorsal lateral streaks more or less oblique, a supra- 

 spiracular and spiracular line of white dashes, and a rather 

 quadrate white blotch on the side of segment 9. My larva agrees 

 with his in ground color, and as can be seen from the figure is 

 merely of a paler color in the spiracular region. Nawa mentions 

 that the larva exserts tentacles when irritated and gives the food 

 plant as wistaria (fuji). There are, therefore, apparently two 

 forms of the larva. The pupa is figured on Plate II, figs. 20 and 

 21, and the following description is taken from my original 

 figure : 



Pupa. — Dorsum green, speckled lightly with white and marked 

 with the exact facsimile in miniature of a white ace of spades on 

 the thorax; on the underside, wing cases, and abdomen whitish. 

 Nawa in the figure of his pupa also shows the white ace mark. 

 Seitz ^^ describes the larva "of the very closely allied (and 

 perhaps not specifically distinct) C. malayica Felder" as follows : 



Larva velvety green with a brown head and a dark red oblique lateral 

 stripe on the 3 and 4 segments, posteriorly with a yellow dorsal stripe 

 and on the 9th segment a white quadrangular spot. The projections of the 

 12th segment yellowish green, the reversible tentacles reddish yellow with 

 black and white hairs at the apex, the tentacles being moved very fast and 

 at once retracted. 



The head of the larva is always kept retracted, being hardly visible 

 when the larva is feeding. On Pongamia glabra. Pupa semiglobular, 

 transparent greenish, with a yellowish ovate spot on the anterior portion. 



A large white spot, more or less rhomboidal, is represented by 

 Nawa on the side of segment 9 of his larva, but in other respects 

 Seitz's description of malayica Felder does not agree with the 

 descriptions by Nawa and myself. Bingham -^ also gives a long 

 description of the larva of Curetis bulis var. malayica Felder. 



Matsumura records C. acuta from Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyu- 

 shu. This, no doubt, is C. paracuta Niceville, the Japanese race. 

 I have taken it in Honshu and Kyushu from June to October, and 

 have taken hibernated specimens in the same islands in May. 



"Insect World (1907), 11, PI. 7, fig. 5. 



"Macrolep. of the World, Faun. Pal. (1910), 1, 276. 



"Fauna Br. India, Butterflies (1907), 2, 446. 



