LIST OF JAPANESE BUTTERFLIES. 

 BY THE REV. E. P. MURRAY, M.A. 



It has occurred to me, from my own difficulties in investigating 

 tlie Lepidopterous fauna of Japan, that a list of all such species of 

 Bhopalocera as are known to me to have been recorded (rightly or 

 wi-ongly) from that country, may be not altogether useless to other 

 workers ; and I have accordingly prepared the following, which must 

 be considered as merely preliminary. 



The authors to whom I am principally indebted are Motschoulsky, 

 Menetries, De I'Orza, and Butler. I cannot help thinking that some 

 few of the species have been recorded in error, and that a great deal 

 of confusion exists in the synonymy of some genera. 



Danais Chrysippus, L. ; Tytia, Gray (this species extends from 

 the Himalaya, through Mongolia, to Japan). 



Dehls Sicelis, Hew. ; Diana, Butler (probably identical with the 

 next species) ; marginalis, Motsch. ; WMteleyi, Butler (possibly a 

 synonym of the next species) ; Maachi, Brem. 



Neope GaschkevifscJii, Men. (there is a second species belonging 

 to this genus in Japan, but I am unwilling to describe it from the very 

 worn specimen in my collection). 



Satyrus Epimenides, Men. ; Dejnnira, L. ; Deidamia, Eversm. ; 

 8. (?) Schrenki, Men. 



Hipparchia Syperanthus, L. ; PJicedra,Ij.,var. bipunctatus, Motsch. 



Mycalesis G-otama, Moore ; Polydecta, Cram, (quoted by De I'Orza, 

 but the specimens should probably be referred to M. Gotama, Moore); 

 Perdiecas, Hew. ; Nicdtia, Hew. 



Tphfhima Argus, Butler; Baldus, Don. ('? = Y.- Argus, Butler). 



Ooenonymplia (Edipus, Fabr. ; Davus, Fabr. 



Tripliysa nervosa, Motsch. 



Argynnis Sagana, Doubl., Hew. ; PapliUi, L. ; Daphne, AV. V. ; 

 Laodice, Pall., var. Japonica, Men. ; Niphe, L. ; Ella, Brem., ? == A. 

 Anadyomene, Feld. ; Daphnis, Cram, (this is a synonym of A. Cyhele, 

 Fabr., which is a N. American species. It is quoted with a query by 

 Motschoulsky in his list of Japanese Lepidoptcra in Etudes Ent., ix, 

 1800); Adippe, h., Nerippe, YiilA.., pallescens, }i\xi\cY (I cannot help 

 thinking that these are all forms of one variable species); Aglnla, L. ; 

 Selenis, Eversm. ; Tno, Rott. 



Melitcea Athalia, Rott. (Phoebe, W. V.); Didynia,Eii]). ; Lcucippe, 

 Schneid. {Athalia, 'Eis,]).); Protomedia, Men. 



Araschnia Burejann, Brem. (sfn'gosa, Butler); Prorsa, L. 



