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Show 856 MR. H. J. ELWES O N THE BUTTERFLIES [Nov. 15, the abdominal half of secondaries crossed by three irregularly nebulous blackish bands, increasing in intensity and in extent as they approach the outer margin ; the basal area also ashy instead of dark brown, and the markings on the basal half of the primaries small and more feebly indicated than those of the external half. Expanse of wings 1 inch 11 lines. $ . Primaries above bright ultramarine, with a very broad black apical area and external border; secondaries and body blackish brown ; wings below more like A. centaurus than the male, the arched abdominal bands obsolete, replaced by a continuation of the ordinary pale-edged macular bands. Expanse of wings 1 inch 11 lines. Six examples, Nikko {C. Maries). Coll. B.M. PROTEIDES CHRYS^GLIA, sp. n. Olivaceous brown, the wings with bright golden or yellowish cupreous reflections, and with the basal three fourths densely sprinkled with fulvous hair-like scales ; fringe creamy whitish : primaries with an indication of four or five increasing oval discal buff-coloured spots, which, however, are concealed in certain lights by the shot colouring of the wing : head bright fulvous; thorax densely clothed with fulvous hair ; palpi jet-black with a broad yellow band. Under surface olivaceous, with slight golden reflections: primaries with the pale buff spots distinct, forming a pyramidal patch, the base of which is expanded and occupies the whole internal border, divided by the median branches ; a small bifid yellow spot within the end of the cell, and a few radiating scales of this colour beyond the cell; secondaries with yellowish abdominal area: tibise and tarsi bright orange. Expanse of wings 1 inch 10 lines. Four examples, Yesso (C. Maries). Coll. B. M . 9. O n the Butterflies of Amurland, North China, and Japan. B y H . J. E L W E S , F.L.S., F.Z.S. [Received November 15, 1881]. Our knowledge of the Lepidoptera of N.E. Asia has received large accessions during the last few years; but no attempt has yet been made to enumerate the Butterflies which are found there. It is still far too soon to do this with any thing like completeness, as we know nothing of the insects of China except in a few scattered localities ; and when we consider the enormous extent of the country, and the number of years required by so indefatigable a naturalist as the late Mr. Swinhoe to gain a fair knowledge of the birds, it is evident that a good list of the Chinese Butterflies must be for many years impossible. Having recently been requested by Mr. Godman to work up a collection made in China by M r . Pryer, I soon found that the relation between the Butterflies of North China, Amurland, and Japan was so close that they could only be studied as a whole! |