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Show 1881.] MR. A. G. BUTLER ON BUTTERFLIES FROM JAPAN. 855 the submarginal spots are more dome-shaped, of a bright orange instead of red colour; and there is a distinct submarginaLNvhite line. Expanse of wings 1 inch 5 lines. Shiribetsu, Hokkaido, August. Coll. M. Fenton. LEPTOSIA MORSEI, Fenton. Allied to Z. amurensis. Wings rounder, not produced at the apex ; the black apical patch lighter : average expanse of L. amurensis, c? 1 inch 11 \ lines, § 2 inches \ line; of L. morsei, S 1 inch 11 lines, 2 2 inches. Iburi, Hokkaido, end of July. Colls. Fenton and B.M. The example sent to us by Mr. Fenton certainly bears out the distinctions laid down in his above description ; and I have little doubt that this is a genuine species. PAPILIO DEHAANI, var. (?) TUTANUS, Fenton. 6* . Primaries sharper above than typical P. dehaani; the scattered atoms are slightly brighter and greener ** and are aggregated in a transverse discal bar: below, the broad whitish discal dash of the primaries of P. dehaani much narrower and less distinct, and obsolete in some specimens; the scattered ochreous scales of the secondaries are somewhat paler and are aggregated (densely in some examples) in a curved transverse discal bar ; the violet scales overarching the red submarginal lunules more numerous. There is the same difference between the sexes; both sexes vary in a like degree inter se. Generally larger. Expanse of wings, d 4 inches 8 lines to 5 inches 6 lines; $ 5 inches 6 lines to 5 inches 9 lines. Toshima and Iburi, Hokkaido. Colls. Fenton and B.M. The summer brood makes its first appearance about the 26th of July, and is on the wing till the middle of September. P. tutanus and P. dehaani2, near Hakodate, in the south of Hokkaido, are found feeding together on the same excrement, though I never saw the males of the latter in conflict with those of P. tutanus, or chasing the females, or vice versa. Further north I did not see a single specimen of P. dehaani, and P. tutanus became more abundant. The following Lyceenid was unwittingly omitted from my descriptions of new species from Nikko. AMBLYPODIA TURBATA, sp. n. 6* . Form and size of A. diardi; but the secondaries comparatively rather larger, the wings above dark blue instead of violet, and with a rather broad black external border : under surface more like A. apidanus in pattern and coloration, but the costal thirds of all the wings washed with lilac, across which the olive-brown bands run; 1 The colour was noted before the specimens were transferred to the cabinet. The fumes of carbolic acid, present in the drawers, turn them very green. 2 The species sent home by Mr. Fenton under this name is P. maackii; and therefore, excepting in this description (which characterizes what I believe to be a distinct species much nearer to the true P. dehaani), I have corrected M r. Fenton's name.-A. G. B- |