CHELONOMORPHA. 



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13. Chelonomorpha japona. 



Chelonomorpha japona, Motaoh. Et. Ent. ix. p. 29 (1860) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 30. 

 Eusemia villicoides, Butl. A. M. N. H. (4) xv. p. 141, pi. 13. f. 2 (1875). 



Black ; sides of palpi with some white hair ; vertex of head and 

 tegulaD with white points ; patagia yellow ; abdomen orange, with 

 dorsal black bands and lateral, sublateral, and ventral black spots. 

 Fore wing with silvery-blue spots below base of costa and cell ; 

 an antemedial line, oblique from costa to vein 1 where it is strongly 

 angled ; an oblique spot in middle of cell and streaks below it on 

 vein 1 ; a discoidal band ; an oblique postmedial line from vein 3 

 to inner margin ; a pale yellow triangular spot in cell before middle, 

 a broad bar across end of cell, and a somewhat quadrate patch below 

 base of vein 2 ; somewhat quadrate spots beyond upper and lower 

 angles of cell, varying much in size, and sometimes with indented 

 outer edge ; a curved subterminal series of small spots, the spot 

 near tornus larger. Hind wing orange ; the base black ; the costa 

 black; a spot at upper angle of cell, a large spot beyond lower 

 angle, with a spot below it on inner area, the lower and sometimes 

 also the upper connected by streaks with the terminal band, which 

 expands very widely on apical area, narrows to a point at tornus, 

 and with one to seven yellow spots on it, the spot above vein 6 

 largest. 



Hab. Japatt, Yezo (Andrews, Pryer), 3 c5* , 1 $ , Nikko {Maries), 

 1 o, Tokio (Fe7iton), 1 c? , Yokohama (Manhy), 1 c? , Hakodate 

 {Andreivs), 6 (5* , 3 $ , type villicoides ; W. China, Kiukiang (Pratt), 

 1 2 . ^^p'. d 62, $ 70 millim. 



Subsp. 1. Fore coxae with whitish hair in front ; hind coxae with 

 orange hair ; abdomen without lateral, sublateral, and ventral black 

 spots. 



Hab. Burma, Hsipaw (De Mceville), 1 (S • 



Fig. 231. — Chelonomorpha austeni, $. \. (From Moths Ind. vol. ii.) 



Subsp. 2. austeni, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 11 (1879); Hmpsn. Moths Ind. 

 ii. p. 154 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 30. 



Fore and hind coxae with orange hair ; abdomen with the lateral, 

 sublateral, and ventral spots small ; hind wing with the spots 

 beyond the cell and on inner area conjoined. 



Hab. Assam, Khasis, type t J in CoU. Staudinger. 



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