Lepidoptera Science
Online ISSN : 1880-8077
Print ISSN : 0024-0974
Volume 10, Issue 1
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  • KEIICHI OMOTO
    Article type: Article
    1959 Volume 10 Issue 1 Pages 1-2
    Published: January 30, 1959
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    A Hesperiid butterfly which is little known to the fauna of Japan was newly collected at Amami-Oshima, Amami Group, the southernmost archipelago of Japan, by Mr. KAIYA KUBO as follows: Parnara naso bada MOORE, 1878 1♀, Nase, Amami-Oshima, Japan, 22. vii. 1957. This is the first record of the species from Japan excluding the Loochoos, except one female specimen from "Japan" in the British Museum recorded by EVANS in 1949, the data of which is rather dubious. This is also the northernmost record of the species within its wide distribution from Africa to Australia.
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  • MASANAO NAKAMURA
    Article type: Article
    1959 Volume 10 Issue 1 Pages 2-3
    Published: January 30, 1959
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    Recently, 4♀♀ specimens of Pseudopsyche endoxantha PUNGELER were discovered from Honshu and Shikoku districts of Japan. This report is not only the first record from Japan but the second one of the pretty moth since the original description from Kasakewitsch, Amur territory. The male is yet unknown.
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  • YASUNOBU NARITOMI
    Article type: Article
    1959 Volume 10 Issue 1 Pages 4-7
    Published: January 30, 1959
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    A new subspecies occuring in Central Formosa. This new subspecies, which is distinctly different from Ch. chrysolora as the well developing of the black spots on its both side of wings, is rather closely resembled Ch. ulupt morii occuring in Korea but is easily distinguished from it in the following respects. 1. On the wing shape, the apex of forcings is not prominent as morii, then the size is smaller. 2. In male, the dark brownish area of forewings is much broader and the colour is darker. Furthermore, at space 4, this new one appears a black oblique band which is absent in morii. The series of black spots on the outer part of hindwings are remarkably extended, especially near hindwings beneath the black space is wider. 3. In female, the white band of upperside is much broader and is neither separated by every black vein nor turning purple. Moreover on hindwings, the inner outline of this band is not distinct. Length of forewings: ♂ 59 mm, ♀ 71 mm. Habitat: Central Formosa. Holotype: ♂, Mt. Morrison, 23. vii. 1957; Allotype : ♀, Puli 4. vii. 1958; Paratypes: 4 ♂♂. Chitoria chrysolora, which has hitherto mostly been treated as a subspecies of Ch. ulupi DOHERTY, seemes to be entirely different species of ulupi as Mr. Le MOULT (1950) classified.
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  • TUYOSI KODAMA
    Article type: Article
    1959 Volume 10 Issue 1 Pages 7-9
    Published: January 30, 1959
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    The morphological characters of full-grown larva of Epiplema cretacea are described and the chaetotaxy of larva is shown in Fig. 2. The nomenclature used for the setae of the larva is that of Mutuura (1956).
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  • ISHIO MORI
    Article type: Article
    1959 Volume 10 Issue 1 Pages 10-12
    Published: January 30, 1959
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    Egg: The shape is bucket-like, 0.5 mm in basic-diameter, 0.3mm in top diameter and 0.7mm in height. The color is grey. On its surface there run some rising lines perpendicular, nine or ten form the middle. There are also about fifteen side lines which meet at right angle with above lines. Egg stage occupies about six weeks and the larva hatches out between the end of November and the beginning of December. Larva: The larve grows till the middle of June. It passes fifth moult. The first instor larva spends the winter without eating and then eat Viola mandshurica W. BECK., when it's budding in next spring. Pupa: The colour is dark grey, but each has difference. The larva spins at the roots of a weed. The term of pupa is about 17〜25 days. Adult: It appears from the earlier part of June, conulating between the latter part of June and the earlier part of July. After estivating from the latter part of July, it appears again in the end of September. The egg is laid in October near Viola mandshurica W. BECK.
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  • MORIO WAKABAYASHI
    Article type: Article
    1959 Volume 10 Issue 1 Pages 12-13
    Published: January 30, 1959
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  • [in Japanese], [in Japanese]
    Article type: Article
    1959 Volume 10 Issue 1 Pages 13-
    Published: January 30, 1959
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  • SHU-ICHI MURAYAMA, MICHIO YOSHISAKA
    Article type: Article
    1959 Volume 10 Issue 1 Pages 14-
    Published: January 30, 1959
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    Aus Formosa war bisher Erynnis montanus BREMER noch nicht gefunden. Diesmal haben wir 2♂♂ in Sammel materialien, die von M. WATANABE in Sakai uns gegeben wurden, entdeckt. Weil diese Exemplars sich in folgenden Punkte von typischer Form unterscheiden, schlagen wir neuen subspezifischen Name vor.
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  • SHIRO YOKOYAMA
    Article type: Article
    1959 Volume 10 Issue 1 Pages 15-
    Published: January 30, 1959
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