X. D, 6 Wileman: Notes on Japanese Lepidoptera, III 353 



of segment 12. These spines almost exactly mimic the young 

 pink spines of the wild rose. The coloration of this larva 

 seems to suggest procryptic colors, affording special protective 

 resemblance." 



When this larva is hidden by the green leaves of the rose, it 

 is most difficult of detection; lying, as it does, flattened against 

 the rose tv^^ig, the resemblance of the pink spines to those of the 

 rose completes the concealment. I have taken the imago in Hok- 

 kaido (Yezo), Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku in June, July, and 

 August, and Leech records it from Honshu, Kyushu, and central 

 and w^estern China. The larva appears from June to July, the 

 imago from June to August. 



Leech ^^ remarks that this species is "probably identical v^^ith 

 Auaxa cesadaria Walker from China, the type of which I have 

 not been able to discover." In the British Museum collection 

 Bizia sulphurea Butler is placed as a synonym of Auaxa cesadaria 

 Walker from China. However, I have named the larva as that 

 of Aimxa sulphurea. Walker's " description agrees with But- 

 ler's figure. 



NOCTUID^ 



CATOCALIN^^ 



Genus METOPTA Swinhoe 

 Metopta Swinhoe, Cat. Het. Mus. Oxon. (1900), 2, 170. 



Metopta rectifasciata Menetries. 



Plate II, fig. 7, larva; fig. 8, food plant. 

 Japanese name, shirosuji-tomoye. 

 Sipirama rectifasciata Men., Cat. Lep. Het. Mus. St. Petersb. (1863), 



PI. 17, fig. 6; Matsumura, Cat. Insect. Jap. (1905), 1, 96, No. 819. 

 Metopta rectifasciata Hmsn., Cat. Lep. Phal. (1913), 12, 301, fig. 50. 

 Spirama rectifasciata Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lend. (1900), 575, No. 



1325. 

 Calliodes rectifasciata Leech, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1889), 545. 

 Spiramia japonica Wlk., Cat. Lep. Het. (1865), 33, 948, nee Guen. 

 Spirama interlineata Butl., Ann. & Mag. Nat. (1878), V, 1, 291; 



BUTL., 111. Typ. Lep. Het. (1878), 2, 41, PI. 34, fig. 2. 



The larva figured (Plate II, fig. 7) was taken in September, 

 1902 (figured September 8), at Hokodate, Oshima Province, 

 Hokkaido (Yezo), on shiode? (? Smilax herbacea Linn. var. nip- 

 ponica Maxim.) . I am not sure about the name of the food plant, 

 but it was identified by my Japanese collector as shiode, for which 

 the botanical name is given in J. Matsumura's Catalogue of Japa- 



" See Wileman, loc. cit. 



"Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (1897), VI, 19, 220. 



"Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. (1860), 20, 271. 



