NAWA: ICONES JAPONJCORUM INS ECTOR UM. 



yellow below blue above, meeting in an angle on back, and blue dotted; spiracles black, encircled with 

 yellow; horn yellow, green dotted. 



Second form.— Blackish- brown, tinged with dark violet, grey dotted; lateral line grey; on back of 2 

 and 3 segments many blackish dashes; on 1 segment many black dots; spiracles black. 



Pupa. —spindle shaped; reddish-drown. 



Time of appearance.— Imago: June -September. Larva: June —October. 



Food plants. -Sesamum indicam, Solanum melongena, Solanum tuberosum. 



Distribution.— Honsiu, Shikoku, Kiusiu. 



Psilogramma menephron Gramer. var. increta Walker. 



Japanese name: Shimofuri-suzume. (Plate II, fig. 3, A-c.) 



Imago.— Fore-wings dark- grey, with darker dentate striae, whitish-sprinkled; a white discal spot; two 

 black median streaks; an irregular black apical streak. Hind- wings greyish-black, deeper posteriorly, partly 

 whitish sprinkled; cilia white and black. Wings below dark-grey, with two darker fasciae. Expanse, 

 85-1 30mm. Body dark -grey, whitish -sprinkled, whitish below; head and thorax black bordered; abdomen 

 with three longitudinal greyish-black stripes. Length, 40-5 lmm. 



Larva, first from. — Green, slighter or deeper; 1—3 segments white spotted, sometimes other segments 

 black dotted; on 4-11 segments a series of oblique lateral white stripes, marked with pale bluish-lilac above; 

 on sides of 11, 12 segments brownish dotted; spiracles black, encircled with whitish-yellow; horn pale-brown, 

 w T hite dotted. 



Second form. - Deep green, suffused with brownish short dashes; white lateral oblique stripes, marked 

 with brown above. 



Pupa.— Dark-browm, furnished with a projecting curve tongue-sheath. 



Time of appearance.— Imago: May — August. Larva: June— September. 



Food-plants. — Paulownia tomentosa, Clerodendron tricotomum, Ligustrum Ibota, Osmanthus aquifolium. 



Distribution. — Yezo, Honsiu, Shikoku, Kiusiu, Loo- choo. 



Hyloicus caligineus Butler. 



Japanese name: Kuro suzume. (Plate II, fig. 4, A, B.) 



Imago. —Fore wings dark grey, closely irrorated with ashy-white; two strongly curved blackish-brown 

 bands running from costa, inner ones turning inwards to base and outer ones running to dorsum, but 

 sometimes indistinct; a white discal spot; three or four longitudinal black dashes on disc; an oblique black 

 apical line; cilia white and dark-grey. Hind-wings dark-grey, deeper posteriorly. Wings below greyish- 

 brown. Expanse, GO — 74mm. Body dark- grey, whitish- sprinkled; thorax with arch shaped blackish-brown 

 stripe; abdomen banded with blackish-brown, and with a longitudinal blackish- bro^n stripe. Length, about 

 30mm. 



Larva. — Green; dorsal line dark brown, edged by pale yellow lines; subdorsal line white; spiracular 

 line black; subspiracular line yellowish; 1 segment with four black spots; 11 and 12 segments black dotted; 



