. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. CHELONOMORPHA. 529 13. Chelonomorpha japona. €helonoi)wrpha Japona, Motach. Et. Ent. ix. p. 2'J (18(JU;; Kirby, Cat. Ilet. p. 30. Eusemla villicoides, Butl. A. M. N. II. (4) xv. p. 141, pi. 13. f. 2 (1875). Black : sides of palpi with some white hair; vertex of head and tegula) 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 s
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. CHELONOMORPHA. 529 13. Chelonomorpha japona. €helonoi)wrpha Japona, Motach. Et. Ent. ix. p. 2'J (18(JU;; Kirby, Cat. Ilet. p. 30. Eusemla villicoides, Butl. A. M. N. II. (4) xv. p. 141, pi. 13. f. 2 (1875). Black : sides of palpi with some white hair; vertex of head and tegula) 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 ou 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 ou apical area, narrows to a point at tornus, and with one to seven yellow spots on it, the spot above vein G largest. llah. Japan, Yezo (Andreirs, Pryer), 3 (5", 1 $ , Nikko (Maries), 1 o, Tokio (Fenton), 1 J, Yokohama (Manhjf), 1 S, Hakodate (Andrews), 6 c?, 3 5 , type villicoides ; W. China, Kiukiang (Pratt), 1 2 . L\rp., (^ 62, 2 70 millim. Subsp. 1. Fore coxae with whitish hair in front; hind coxae with orange hair ; abdomen without lateral, sublateral, and ventral black spots. Ifah. Burma, Hsipaw (De Niceville), 1 S •. Fig. 231.— Chelonomorpha austeni, 2- (From Moths Ind. vol. ii.) Subsp. 2. austeni, Moore, Lep. Atk.
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