. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. CHELONOMORPHA. 529 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; a
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. CHELONOMORPHA. 529 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, $. \. (Fro
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