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Show 1888.] LEPIDOPTERA OF JAPAN AND COREA. 633 251. RHODIAFUGAX. Rhodia fugax, Butl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) xx. p. 480 (1877); 111. Typ. Lep. Het. pt. ii. p. 17, pl. xxvi. fig. 1 (1878). Seven males and three females in coll. Pryer. The males range from 82 to 103 millim., but the females are more uniform, the smallest being 122 millim. and the largest 126 millim in expanse. According to Pryer, the larva, which he says is " bright green and resembles a butterfly larva," feeds on cherry and other trees, and the imago appears in November and December ; the cocoon, which is bright green and resembles a pendent leaf, has " a slit on the top, opening by pressure." Yokohama (Pryer). 252. CALIGULA JONASI. Caligula jonasii, Butl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) xx. p. 479 (1877) ; 111. Typ. Lep. Het. pt. ii. p. 16, pl. xxv. fig. 2(1878). Seven examples, coll. Pryer (3 males, 4 females). I took two males at Nikko in September, and a female at Oiwake also in September. According to Pryer, the larva is hairy and resembles a small larva of Caligula japonica. Yokohama. 253. CALIGULA JAPONICA. Caligula japonica, (pupa-case) Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. (3) i. p. 322 (1862); (imago) Butl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) xx. p. 479 (1877); 111. Typ. Lep. Het. pt. ii. p. 16, pl. xxvi. fig. 2 (1878). Several specimens from various parts of Japan, exhibiting much variation. Pryer remarks in his Catalogue p. 52 :-" Commonly called the wire-cartridge moth, from the resemblance of the cocoon to the wire-net in a cartridge ; last year it was found feeding on poplars newly introduced into this country. The natives make a strong coarse silk from the cocoon, and a fine gut from the intestines of the larva. The imago appears in October. The larva hairy." Yokohama (Jonas, Pryer) ; Nikko (Leech) ; Hakodate. 254. ANTHER_EA PERNYI. Saturnia pernyi, Guerin, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1855, p. 6. 297, pl. 6. fig. 1. Anthercea hazina, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 13. Anthercea fentoni, Butl. I. c. Anthercea calida, Butl. op. cit. p. 14. Anthercea morosa, Butl. /. c. My Japanese examples of this Anthercea vary in colour from a pale brown, through pale reddish brown to "rusty orange" on the one hand and to olivaceous and fuliginous brown on the other. The markings are subject to modifications within certain limits, but |
