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Show 1887 1 J OF JAPAN AND COREA. 415 sdDotrttl>laCk ^u ; °n the disk is a second irreSular r°w of black wLioh'i r ^ ^ t h r e\sP°t s in th* discoidal cell, the outer one of bv a brl ^ geSu Vlf tm"S -rey'lsh buff> outWHrdly margined by a broad orange band, bordered on each side with a row of black Oots ; an irregular arrangement of black spots, margined with dirty white, is scattered over the remainder of the wing 7 erass'in.. . SPecies'1 du,inS h e a vJ rain, at rest on stems of coarse grass m a swampy gully liear the monastery of Chang-Do, about 25 miles south of Gensan, in July 1886. This species is allied to P. dispar, but its colour resembles oc^rnus; the fringes are black, the discoidal spots are absent on all tl W 1"Ss,o f male> thf ^male has a row of dashes on the fore wings instead of spots and the disk of hind wings is not suffused wifh copper; the underside is also different. 53. LYC-ENA B^TICA, Linn. Occurs in several parts of Japan, but is very local; it does not seem to occur in Corea. 54. LYC-ENA ARGIADES, Pall. L. hellotia, Men. Cat. Mus. Petr. ii. p. 124, t. x. fig. 6 (1857) L.praxiteles, Feld. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xii. p. 489 0862)' • Reise Nov. ii. p. 281, t. xxxv. fig. 5. ' Everes hellotia, Butl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, ix. p. 17. Common all over Japan and Corea during the warm months It varies in size from | in. to 1| inch. The female also varies in colour and markings, some specimens being much suffused with blue. 55. LYCJENA FISCHERI, Eversm. Lycana filicaudis, Pryer. Occurs at Gensan in June. It is also very common in the Snowy Valley, Ningpo, in April. The pale band on the outer margin of the hind wing may be either very distinct, faint, or totally a°bsent. The spots on the underside have a great tendency to coalesce in the manner common to many of this genus. 56. LYC-ENA ARGIA. L. argia, Men. Cat. Mus. Petr. ii. p. 125, t. x. fig. 7. L. japonica, Murray, Ent. Mon. Mag. xi. p. 167 (1874). L. alope, Fenton, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 851. Of this difficult species I have only been able to form an opinion by collecting a series of over 200 specimens, being representatives from every locality I visited, both in China, Japan, and Corea and ranging from the beginning of March to the end of October. L. japonica, Murray, is said to differ from argia in the absence of the marginal spots of the hind wing in female; this distinction is without the least scientific value, and every grade occurs, from the most distinctly marked to those destitute of any spots whatever. 28* |