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Show 1881.] OF AMURLAND, NORTH CHINA, AND JAPAN. 891 LYCENA ARION, Linn. Syst. Nat. x. p. 483. Of this I have only seen one specimen, from Raddefskaia; and Radde took a single very large one in the Bureija Mountains. L. EUPHEMUS, Hb. 254-256. 1 L. kazamoio, Druce, Cist. Ent. 1875, p. 361. The type of L. kazamoto, which I have examined in Godman and Salvin's collection, is very dark, the spots hardly showing; but I think it is only a variety of L. euphemus, which seems extremely variable in Japan. It is marked as taken at 6000 feet elevation. Japanese specimens vary much in the expanse of the wings; and most of them have a black spot at the base of the fore wing below, which does not appear in European specimens. This species seems common in certain parts of Central Japan, and occurs also at Yesso ( Whitely) and at Raddefskaia in Amurland. LIBYTHEA, sp. L. lepita, Moore, Cat. Lep. E.I. C. Mus. p. 240. The Japanese species of LiBythea has been referred by authors to L. lepita, Moore, from the Himalayas, which is described as differing from L. myrrha, Godt., in the ferruginous streak from base of fore wing being divided into two portions-the first within the discoidal cell, the second a round terminal spot beyond its extremity. Six specimens from Sikkim and Nepal in my collection all belong to L. myrrha; and a specimen from Japan is intermediate between that and the European L. celtis, to some specimens of which it comes near in the arrangement of the markings. The band on the hind wing is narrower than in either L. myrrha or L. celtis ; and the colour of the underside different. ZEMEROS FLEGYAS, Cr. Pap. Ex. iii. t. 280. A single specimen was in Pryer's Shanghai collection; and it is included in his list of Chinese Butterflies in Ent. Month. Mag. 1877, p. 52. CHARAXES NARCEUS, Hew. Ex. Butt. i. Nymph, t. 1. Var. mandarinus, Feld. Reise Nov. p. 437. Found at Shanghai by Pryer. DICHORRAGIA NESIMACHUS, Boisd., Cuv. Regne An. Ins. ii. t. 139 bis (1836). Not uncommon in Japan, and probably found in China, though I have seen no specimens from there. It agrees with Sikkim specimens, though the white markings at the apex of the fore wing are shorter. APATURA IRIS, Linn. Syst. Nat. x. p. 476. Found in the Bureija Mountains by Radde, and at Raddefskaia and Askold. It is reported to exist in Japan ; but I have never seen specimens from there. |