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There are probably two broods, and it hibernates in the imago 

 form. It never appears to have been taken so far north as 

 Hokkaido (Yezo) , where there are five months of rigorous winter 

 with much snow and ice and a very short summer. Miyajima 

 records acuta from Loochoo Islands (Ryukyu), but whether or 

 not this is typical acuta or paracuta, I am unable to say. 



Genus ARTOPOeTES Chapman 



Artopoetes Chapman, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1909), 473. Type, 

 Lycsena pryeri Murray. 



Artopoetes pryeri Murray. 



Plate II, figs. 23 and 24, larva, dorsal and lateral aspects; fig. 25, food 

 plant; figs. 26 and 27, pupa, dorsal and lateral aspects. 



Japanese name, uragomadara-shijimi. 



Lycsena pryeri Murray, Ent. Month. Mag. (1873), 10, 126; Pryer, 

 Rhop. Nihon. (July, 1888), 18, PI. V, fig. 16; Leech, Butterf. China, 

 Japan, Corea (1892-94), 2, 313; Stgr. and Rebel., Cat. Lep. Pal. 

 (1901), 1, 90, No. 649; Miyajima, Jap. Butterf. [Nihon Chorui 

 Dzusetsu (Jap.)] (1904), 165, PI. XVIII, fig. 8, ?; Matsumura, 

 Cat. Insect. Jap. (1905), 1, 20, No. 160; Matsumura, Thousand 

 Insects of Japan [Nihon Senchii Dzukai (Jap.)] (1907), 4, 112, 

 PI. 74, fig. 3, (f; Seitz, Macrolep. of the World, Faun. Pal. (1909), 

 1, 322, PI. 83e, d* ? and underside. 



Artopoetes pryeri Chapman, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1909), 473. 



The larva figured (Plate II, figs. 23 and 24) was taken June 

 16, 1902, at Hakodate, Oshima Province, Hokkaido (Yezo), on a 

 species of ? privet, Japanese name, ihota (Ligustrum japonicum 

 Thunb.). This larva pupated July 3, 1902, and a female imago 

 emerged July 18, 1902. Dorries found the full-grown larva in 

 Sutschan District, eastern Siberia, in June, feeding on Syringa 

 amurensis Rupr. This shrub is also found in Japan and is called 

 hashidoi in Japanese. 



Pupa. — The pupa is attached by a silken pad at the tail with 

 a girdle round the body. 



Larva. — The following description of the larva is taken from 

 my original figure: Length, 17 millimeters. Green; a darker 

 longitudinal mediodorsal line; a brown dorsal patch on segments 

 2 to 4, narrow on segments 2 and 3, and expanding triangularly 

 on segment 4 ; abdomen whitish ; spiracles dark. 



Matsumura records this species from Hokkaido (Yezo) and 

 Honshu. Seitz records it from eastern Siberia (Amurland) and 

 Japan. Miyajima states that it flies from May to July. I have 

 taken it in Honshu and Hokkaido in the same months and in 

 Kyushu (Haki, Bungo Province; Shimoshiiba, Hyuga Province) 

 in July. There appears to be only one brood in the year. 



