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Ophideres tyrannus GuEN., Noct. (1852), 3, 110; Hampson, Moths 

 India (1894), 2, 562; Leech, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1889), 544, 

 No. 326; Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. (1900), 577, No. 1329; 

 Stgr. and Reb., Cat. Lep., Pal. (1901), 1, 247; Matsumura, Cat. 

 Insect. Jap. (1905), 1, 98, No. 835; Nagano, Nawa's Insect World 

 [Konchu Sekai (Jap.)] (1908), 12, 315, 354, PI. 8, figs. 1-9, larva, 

 pupa, imago, ?; Nagano, Insect World (1912), 16, 41; Matsumuea, 

 Thousand Insects of Japan [Nihon Senchu Dzukai (Jap.)] (1910), 

 suppl. 2, 1, PL 17, fig. 1, c?; Sasaki, Insects Injurious to Fruit Trees 

 [Kwaju Gaichuhen (Jap.)], 5th ed. (1911), 166, PI. 50, imago. 



Ophideres amurensis Stgr., Rom. Mem. Lep. (1892), 6, 581; Stgr. 

 and Reb., Cat. Lep., Pal., 1, 247; Oberth, Etud. d'Ent. (1880), 5, 86 

 (= ? fullonica Linn.). 



Adris tyrannus MooRE, Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1881), 11, 69, PI. 

 12, fig. 5. 



The larva is figured in two positions (Plate III, figs. 1 and 

 3) . The larvae from which these figures were drawn were taken 

 in September and October, 1900 (figured September 21 and 

 October 1 ) , at Yoshino, Yamato Province, Honshu, on a creeper 

 with large golden yellow fruit, known in Japanese as akebi 

 (Akebia quinata Decne.) . I bred from them a male and a female 

 imago, which emerged November 8, 1900, and December 4, 1900, 

 respectively. These are apparently not referable to typical Ophi- 

 deres tyrannus, but to the form described by Staudinger as var. 

 amurensis. I also took the larva, which evidently belongs to the 

 first brood at Yoshino, on May 12, and from it an imago was bred 

 June 10, 1901. I found a green form of larva at Hakodate, 

 Hokkaido (Yezo), in which the markings were rather more 

 distinct than in the form figured, but this was not bred. It was 

 feeding on barberry (Berberis sp.). Nagano,^® who has written 

 at some length on the transformations of this species, states that 

 no fixed rule can be laid down as to the color of the larva, which 

 varies according to its stage and the locality it inhabits. 



Larva. — The following description is taken from my original 

 figure: Length, about 67 millimeters. Blackish brown with a 

 pink tinge dorsally; of a darker shade laterally; sprinkled 

 with yellowish patches and dots; a conspicuous yellow patch on 

 segment 10 spotted with the ground color ; two prominent ocellus- 

 like spots on segments 6 and 7, internally black, centered with 

 blue, and ringed externally with a broad yellow circle; segment 

 12, humped. There seem to be two or three broods of the larva 

 in the year. 



"Nagano, iTisect World (1908), 12, 315, 354, PI. 8, figs. 1-9, larva, 

 pupa, imago, ?. 



