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Show 406 MR. j. H. LEECH ON THE BUTTERFLIES [May 3, 10. PAPILIO MIKADO, nov. sp. (Plate XXXV. fig. 1.) Expanse of wings 3]- inches. Ground-colour of all the wings black; a narrow straw-coloured streak extends across the base of the fore wing interrupted by the veins. All the wings covered with straw-coloured spots, consisting of a submarginal series of fairly uniform spots running round the outer margin of the wing ; a subcostal series of eight spots, three of which are situated in the discoidal cell, a discal series of six graduated spots on the fore wing, which is continued on the hind wing in a wedge-shaped mass, tapering to a blunt point near the anal angle and divided into two by the median vein; the first two spots of the submarginal series of the hind wing, the anal lunule, the upper part of the wedge-shaded mass, and the interior of the abdominal fold are very pale yellow. Underside, a reproduction of the upper surface with most of the spots enlarged and whiter, and with the addition of a yellow spot at the base of the hind wing, aud an irregular arrangement of yellow markings between the discal and submarginal spots of the hind wing. I took a single male specimen about M a y 20th near Kagoshima in the Province of Satsuma. The nearest allied species is P. eurypylus. 11. LUEHDORFIA PUZILOI, Ersch. This is a very early species; it occurs in Yesso, and Mr. H . Pryer has recently discovered a new locality for it in Central Japan. 12. SERICINUS TELAMON. S. telamon, Don. Ins. China, t. xxvii. fig. I (1798). S. montela, Gray, P. Z. S. 1852, p. 71 ; Cat. Lep. Brit. Mus. i. p. 78, t. xiii. figs. 1, 2. S. fortunei, Gray, P. Z. S. 1852, p. 72; Cat. Lep. Brit. Mus. i. p. 79, t. xiii. fig. 5. S. fasciatus, Brem. & Grey, Schmett. nordl. China's, p. 5; Men. Cat. Mus. Petr. t. vi. fig. 1. S. cressoni, Reak. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. iii. p. 499 (1864). S. telmona, Gray, P. Z. S. 1852, p. 72 ; Cat. Lep. Brit. Mus. i. p. 78, t. xiii. fig. 3. S. greyi, Brem. & Grey, Schmett. nordl. China's, p. 6, t. i. fig. 2. A very variable species ; out of a series of about 33 specimens which I took at Gensan at the end of June and beginning of July, no two specimens are alike, and they all differ slightly from any specimens in the National collection. 13. PARNASSIUS GLACIALIS. P. glacialis, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc , Zool. ix. p. 50 (1866). Occurs at Nikko and Hakodate in June and July, also in Corea (//. Strecker). It is not an alpine species, as its name would lead one to suppose, but occurs at a very slight elevation in Central Japan and on the sea-level at Hakodate. |