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Show 1888.] LEPIDOPTERA OF JAPAN AND COREA. 635 stripe of primaries varies in width as it also does in tint, being rosy and sometimes dark purple, always bounded internally with black, and often though not invariably edged externally with white. The ocellus of primaries is as inconstant in shape as in size, and in some examples small and round, in others linear, and in others again large and oval, whilst the black outline, which is usually only distinct on the inner edge of these ocelli, is in some few examples entire and conspicuous. The submarginal and basal lines are in the different specimens either sharply defined, faint, or quite absent. Yokohama (Jonas, Pryer, and Manley) ; Akita, Gensan (Leech); Kiukiang (Pratt). 257. BRAHM.EA JAPONICA. Brahmma japonica, Butl. Ent. Month. Mag. x. p. 56 (1873); 111. Typ. Lep. Het. pt. ii. p. 17, pl. xxvi. fig. 3. '{•=Brahmcea mniszechi, Feld. Reise Nov. Lep. iv. pl. xciii. figs. 4,5(1864-5). A fine series, coll. Pryer. This is a variable species both as regards ground-colour and markings. Thus the former may be white or grey, and sometimes tinged with green ; then the number of ocelli in central band and " rounded iuternal spot" is not the same in any two individuals comprised in m y series of 15 specimens. The spot referred to sometimes has three ocelli across its centre on one wing, but its companion on the other wing has four. In all cases the number of ocelli, both in the spot and central band, is greater on one side than the other. Again, the shape of the central band is subject to modification, and stages in the formation of the rounded internal spot from the lower portion of this band are exhibited in the specimens in my Japanese series ; thus between an example in which the band is entire from costa to inner margin, and but slightly contracted below the middle, and a specimen with the rounded spot completely formed and quite independent, there are all the intermediate stages. Yokohama (Pryer). 258. BRAHM^A CERTHIA. Bombyx certhia, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 1, p. 412. 16. Bombyx wallichii, Gray, Zool. Misc. p. 39. Brahmcea carpenteri, Butl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) p. 114 (1883). Saturnia lunulata, Motsch. Etud. Entom. 1852, p. 64 ; Men. Lep. Ost-Sib. p. 55 (1859) ; Rom. M e m . sur Lep. iii. p. 345. Saturnia undulata, Brem. & Grey, Schmett. Nord. China's, p. 16, tab. v. fig. 3 (1853); (Brahmcea) Rom. Mem. sur Lep. iii. p. 345. Brahmcea carpenteri, Butl., is the only form of B. certhia recorded from the region under consideration. But this at best can only rank as a variety of certhia. |
