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Show 1881.] OF AMURLAND, NORTH CHINA, AND JAPAN. 903 DANAIS CHRYSIPPUS, Linn. Mus. Ulr. p. 263 (1764). Found in China and Japan, but not, as far as I know, in Amur-land. Danais limniace is found at Foochow, and may extend further north; but I have seen no specimens from Shanghai or Ningpo. THAUMANTIS HOWQUA, Westw. Trans. Ent. Soc 1851, p. 174. Stichophthalma howqua, Feld. Wien. ent. Mon. vi. p. 27 (1862). This splendid species is found at Shanghai and Ningpo, and also in Formosa. It is the only representative of the Morphidae occurring within my limits, though Clerome eumaus occurs in South China. DEBIS EUROPA, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 500 (1775). Occurs at Kiukiang (Maries), and possibly elsewhere. A specimen in the Hewitson collection from Amoy resembles the variety nilgherriensis, Guer. MELANITIS LEDA, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 773 (1767). Found in Nikko, Japan, by Maries, and in Formosa; but I have seen no specimens from Central or North China.' MELANARGIA (ARGE) HALIMEDE, Men. Schrenk's Reise, p. 37, t. iii. figs. 6, 7. Var. meridionalis, Feld. Wien, ent. Mon. vi. p. 29 (1862). The type form of this distinct species is found commonly at Askold and elsewhere in Amurland. It occurs also at Moupin in East Tibet, according to Oberthur, in a paler form. At Shanghai and Ningpo is found the curious melanism described by Felder as M. meridionalis, four specimens of which, in Pryer's collection, though varying in the intensity of their blackness, are all remarkably different from the northern form. MYCALESIS GOTAMA, Moore, Cat. Lep. E.I. C.i. p. 232(1857). Sadarga gotama, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1880, p. 158. Found in Japan and China, where it seems common at Shanghai. Specimens from Silhet in the British Museum, marked " osti'ea, Westw.," agree nearly with this, but are rather larger. M. PERDICCAS, Hew. Ex. Butt. iii. Myc. t. iii. fig. 15 (1862). Garerisperdiccas, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1880, p. 157. 1 M. sangaica, Butl. Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, xix. p. 95. Martanda sangaica, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1880, p. 169. This species is distinguished from the last by the band on underside of wings having a blue-grey instead of a yellowish tinge. It seems common at Shanghai and in Japan. Specimens in the British Museum from Nankow Pass, between China and Mongolia, seem to belong to this species ; and I am doubtful as to separating M. sangaica, the type of which from Shanghai I have seen. This species, however, is considered distinct, |