A DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF A COLLECTION OF EARLY STAGES OF JAPANESE LEPIDOPTERA. B}'^ Harrison G. Dyar, CuModiun uf Lepldoptrra. This collection was prepared by Mr. Y. Nawa, of Gifu, Japan, and exhibited at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri. Afterwards it was brought to Washington by Mr. U. Nawa and pre-sented to the U. S. Department ot Agriculture. The specimens are now in the U. S. National Museum. Fifty-four species are represented, the adults, with pupte, larvte, and eggs of many, at least the larvje of all. Of many of the species 1 tind no pul)lished account of the early stages, and these are therefore described in this paper. Most of the species are of economic importance, being injurious to cultivated plants. Family PAPILIONID^E. PAPILIO SARPEDON Linnaeus. AOSU J I-AGEHA-CHO. Food plant: Cinnmnontum, camphora. The larva agrees in general with the excellent tigure by Scott," ])ut is less diversified in color. It is en-tirely velvety green, with faint lighter spottings, the thorax being dark green, and not of a different yel-lowish shade. There is no violet shading subven-trally nor on the terminal abdominal segments as in the Australian larva. The subventral and pedal lines are pale yellow. The sub-dorsal angles of the metathoracic segment are blunt and rounded, not long and pointed as in Scott's tigure. They are yellow with a black ring at the base. The scent organ is protruded in the specimen, but has been broken. Fig. 1.— Papilio sar-pedon, larva. "Australian Lepidoptera, Australian Museum, Sydney, II, 1891, pi. xvii. Proceedings U.S. National Museum, Vol. XXVIII— No. 1412. 937
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