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Show 880 MR. H. J. ELWES ON THE BUTTERFLIES [NOV. 15, I have never seen C. erate from N.E. Asia, though it is by Bremer from Possiet Bay and by Murray from Japan. The yellow form of G. hyale, which is so like the female of C. erate, that I could not tell them apart, has probably been mistaken for it. I would here take the opportunity of saying, in answer to Mr. Butler's repeated assertion (see Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vii. p. 137) that C. heliclha, Led., cannot be a hybrid, that I am assured by Dr. Staudinger that the two species C. edusa and C. erate which produce it do fly together in abundance at Sarepta on the Volga, aud that Kinderman, Becker, and Christoph have not once, but repeatedly, taken them in copula. Mr. Strecker also tells me that hybrids between Coliasphilodice and C. eurytheme are not uncommon in both sexes in the United States, and that they look much like the Russian hybrid C. helictha. P.S. Mr. Strecker writes me that he has true erate from Japan smaller than the Russian ones, the female darker on upperside of hind wings, but the male has the unspotted border just like the Russian examples. In a second letter he writes that " the Japanese male C. erate is undoubted ; what I take to be the female, and which I got along with it, is like the female Russian C. erate suffused with dark scales on the upperside of hind wing, whilst in C. simoda (C. hyale, var.) the clear lemon-yellow prevails." COLIAS MELINOS, Evers. Bull. Mosc. 1847, iii. p. 72. Found on the Schilka and the Amur by Radde, but appears very rare in collections. It is nearly allied to C. phicomone. C. AURORA, Esp. t. 83. f. 3. Found at Iladdefskaia, Blagovestchensk on the Ussuri, and other places in Amurland ; but the females seem rare. There are two forms of this sex, as in other species of this section of the genus-G. chloe, Evers. Bull. Mosc. 1847, t. iv. figs. 3, 4, being the pale-coloured one ; the other is extremely bright reddish orange. This species represents C. edusa in North-eastern Asia; no species of that section is known to me in Japan or China at present. TERIAS L.ETA, Boisd. Sp. Gen. i. p. 674 ; var. J.EGERI, Men. Cat. Mus. Petr. p. 84, t. ii. fig. 1 (1855). The variety found in China and Japan differs from the majority of Indian specimens in having a narrower black border to the fore wings, which is sharply interrupted near the hind margin in the way shown in Menetries's figure. Some Himalayan and Khasia specimens have the band interrupted in the same way; but the Japanese examples can, as far as I have seen, be distinguished. Mene'tries, by mistake, says that T.jaegeri came from Hayti, where, of course, no such insect exists. It seems common in Japan, and is found at Shanghai. |