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Show 896 MR. H. J. ELWES ON THE BUTTERFLIES [Nov. 15, JUNONIA ALMANA, Linn. Mus. Ulr. p. 272. In Pryer's collection, from Shanghai. J. ASTERIA, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 769. In Pryer's collection from Shanghai. J. ORITHYA, Linn. Mus. Ulr. p. 278, Recorded from Japan by Murray. VANESSA LEVANA, Linn. Syst. x. p.480. Var. prorsa, Linn. Syst. Nat. x. p. 480. Ab. porima, Ochs. i. 1, p. 134. Araschnia fallax, Jans. Cist. Ent. ii. p. 271 (1878). This species occurs in both its spring and summer forms in various parts of the A m u r region, V. levana having been taken in June, and both forms at Raddefskaia by Christoph. I have also seen what I believe to be a form of the same species in Dr. Staudinger's collection from some part of North China; and, if I am correct in referring V. fallax to this species, it is also found in Japan. Mr. Janson says that Mr. Jonas finds V. Burejana and V. fallax in Japan at the same season and in different localities, and infers from this that it cannot be a form of V. Burejana, to which he considers it most nearly allied. In fact it is hardly distinguished from some European specimens of the form known as V. porima, which is believed to be the produce of pupte of V. levana which from some cause have been checked in their development; and Dr. Staudinger tells me that this variety can be bred by exposing the pupse to cold. V.fallax differs from V.porima only in having the transverse band rather more yellow in colour ; and it may possibly be a single-brooded Japanese form of V. levana. The Chinese specimens, though much larger, come nearer to the Japanese than to the Amur form. Blanchard, in ' Comptes Rendus Acad. Sciences,' 1871, p. 810, mentions Vanessa prorsa as being found by Abbe David in E. Thibet, and also names Vanessa prorsoides and a variety levanoides, which he says differ from V. prorsa and V. levana in being larger. V. BUREJANA, Brem. Lep. Ost-Sib. p. 15, t. i. fig. 8. Araschnia strigosa, Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. ix. p. 54 (1866). This species is found in most parts of the Amur region, and less commonly in Japan. I think there is little doubt of the identity of V. strigosa, thouo-h 1 have seen but few specimens of the Japanese insect. V. L-ALBUM. ^ Only seen from the Ussuri and from Japan, where it seems rare. The Japanese insect seems intermediate between the European and the American form known as j-alBum ; but probably the latter is not really separable. Mr. Strecker says (in his Catalogue, p. 133) that the European and American forms cannot be separated. |