NOTES ON JAPANESE LEPIDOPTERA AND THEIR LARV.E: 



PART III * 



By A. E. WiLEMAN 



(Manila, P. I.) 



THEEE COLORED PLATES 



HETEROCERA 



BOMBYCID^ 



Genus THEOPHILA Moore 



Theophila Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1867), 683. 



Theophila falcigera Butler. 



Plate I, fig. 1, young larva; fig. 2, food plant; fig. 3, adult larva; fig. 4, 



head and thoracic segments. 

 Japanese name, o-kuwa modoki. 

 Lagyra falcigera Butler, 111. Typ. Lep. Het. (1878), 2, 45, PI. 35, 



fig. 4, ?; Pryer, Trans. Asiat. Soc. Japan (1883), 12, No. 204. 

 Oherthuria falcigera Matsumura, Cat. Insect. Jap. (1905), 1, 48. 

 Hyposidra falcigera Leech, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (1897), VI, 19, 



314; Matsumura, Thousand Insects of Japan [Nihon Senchu Dzukai 



(Jap.)] (1909), suppl. 1, 50, PI. 8, fig. 6, ?. 

 = ? Euphranor caeca Oberth., Etud. d'Ent. (1880), 5, 40, PI. 6, 



fig. 11, c?. 

 = "! Oberthiiria caeca Stgr., Rom. Mem. Lep. (1892), 6, 337; Stgr. 



and Reb., Cat. Lep. Pal. (1901), 1, 128, No. 1044; Grunberg, 



Seitz's Macrolep., Faun. Pal. (1911), 1, 190, PI. 35e. 

 = ? Oherthuria rutilans Grunberg, Seitz's Macrolep., Faun. Pal. 



(1911), 1, 190 (ab. of caeca.) 

 = ? Andraca gracilis Butler, Cist. Ent. (1885), 3, 125, No. 22; Leech, 



Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1888), 625, No. 217; Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. 



Lond. (1898), 272; Grunberg, Seitz's Macrolep., Faun. Pal. (1911), 



1, 190. 



The larva figured (Plate I, figs. 1 and 3) was taken in August, 

 1902, at Hakodate, Oshima Province, Hokkaido (Yezo), on itaya- 

 kaede, a species of maple (? Acer pictum Thunb.). The artist 

 figured the larva in the young stage on August 13, 1902, and 

 again in its full-grown stage on August 27, 1902. No record 



* The first paper of this series was printed in This Journal, Sec. D 

 (1914), 9, 247-268, 3 pis.; part II, in (1915), 10, 281-306, 3 pis. 



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