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Show 910 MR. H. J. ELWES ON THE BUTTERFLIES [Nov. 15, TAGIADES NYMPHALIS, Speyer, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1879, p. 348. This fine large species is described from three specimens taken at Vladivostock. Speyer states that it differs slightly from Chinese specimens. The species resembles Satarupa gopala, Moore, from Sikkim, in the size, shape, and marking of the fore wings ; but the hind wings are very different. I have seen it from N. China in Dr. Staudinger's collection. ISMENE BENJAMINI, Guer. Deless. Sonn. Inde, ii. p. 79, t. 22. L. benjamini, v&r. japonica, Murr. Ent. M o . Mag. 1875, p. 4. Specimens from Japan {Pryer) and Ningpo (Pryer) agree with each other and hardly vary from the Himalayan insect, though the yellow and black markings on the anal angle below are not usually so bright or conspicuous. I. SEPTENTRIONALIS, Feld. Reise, Nov. p. 525, t. 73. fig. 3 (? 1866). i". striata, Hew. Ex. Butt. v. t. 43. figs. 6, 7 (? 1867). This species, described from Shanghai (Muirhead) and from China (Hewitson), I have not seen ; but the figures quoted seem to agree very well. The species is easily distinguished from I. benjamini by the absence of the anal markings and the banded body. The coloration of its upper surface (not figured by Felder) is nearer that of the following. I. AQUILINA, Speyer, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1879, p. 346. I. jankowskii, Oberthiir, Et. Ent. v. p. 23, t. i. fig. 2 (1880). Vladivostock, Askold {Jankowsky); Japan (Mus. Brit. 4" Hew.). The species is plain brown in colour, with pale indistinct patch on the fore wing. It is allied to I. harisa, Moore, from Sikkim, though quite distinct. HESPERIA? ALEXIS, Fab., Butler, Fab. Ins. p. 269, t. iii. A specimen which agrees very fairly with Butler's plate is in Pryer's collection from Shanghai. The whitish band of hind wing below is very faint, except where it joins the dark spot at anal apex ; and the insect closely resembles a specimen from Queensland (MacLean) in Mus. Godman and Salvin. PLESIONEURA CURVIFASCIA, Feld. Wien. ent. Mon. vi. p 29 (1862). l' From Ningpo (Muirhead). Said to be near P. feisthamelii, Boisd., from the Moluccas. P. BIFASCIATA, Brem. Eudamus bifasciatus, Br. &, Grey, p. 10 (1853). Gonoloba bifasciata, Men. Enum. t. v. fig. 3 (1855). A species I know only from the plate. It was found near Pekin {Bremer). |