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Show 850 MR. A. G. BUTLER ON BUTTERFLIES FROM JAPAN. [NOV. 15, placed upon the first median interspace: secondaries with white points on the median and radial interspaces, only the first (on the first median interspace) distinct and snow-white : thorax fuliginous brown, abdomen blackish. Primaries below nearly as above, but the internal area greyish and the external border bright chocolate-brown ; secondaries much as in E. medea, bright chocolate-brown, with faint indication of a slightly more olivaceous broad angular belt just before the middle; the disk slightly greyish, showing the white dots of the upper surface distinctly, the first of these is black-edged ; fringe of all the wings dull black mottled with testaceous; pectus fuliginous brown, legs and venter pale brown. Expanse of wings 2 inches 1 line. Kuramatsunai, Shiribetsu, Hokkaido, second week in August. Coll. M . Fenton. This is an interesting and well-defined new species. ARASCHNIA OBSCURA, Fenton. Allied to A.fallax, O. Janson (Cist. Ent. 1878, p. 271). Male above soot-black : primaries with four short narrow transverse lines in the cell, and one below the median vein near the base, pale ochreous ; the transverse interrupted band on the disk extending quite to the costal edge at one end, but only to the submedian vein at the other, very pale ochreous ; four spots in a curved row near the apex, the first and second, and a small linear spot about the middle and close to the margin, pale ochreous, the third (the smallest) and the fourth (the largest) and a small spot between the second and third median veinlets pure white ; no irregular submarginal lunular reddish-sienna spots : secondaries produced at the middle of outer edge ; no undulating reddish-sienna lines; fringe with white sinuations interrupted by black at the end of the nervures. Below pale ochreous ; the irregular marks at the base reddish chocolate; the apical third occupied by a broad band of the same colour bordered inwardly with black, interrupted by the nervures : primaries with an additional small white spot in the band, between the first and second median veinlets ; the markings below the cell black, dusted in some specimens with reddish chocolate. Expanse of wings 1 inch 8 lines. Forest-lands in Hokkaido, August. Coll. M . Fenton. I have not examined the type of this species of Mr. Fenton's; but, from a photograph which he has shown me, I should judge it to be perfectly distinct. VANESSA LUNIGERA, Butler. Allied to V. fentoni, but altogether duller in colour; the black spots above considerably larger ; the lunate subconfluent spots on the external area of secondaries replaced by a series of small lunules: under surface with all the bands considerably darker and broader, the silvery white J-shaped marking on the secondaries replaced by a J-shaped character. Expanse of wing 2 inches 5 lines. N. Iburi, Hokkaido, July. Coll. M . Fenton. This species has the costal margin of the primaries more produced |