170 [January, 



AmBLTPODIA JAPONICA, sp. 710V. 



Alis sicpra violaceo-cceruleis, late nigro-marginatis, anticis ad apicem suhfalcatis, 

 posticis ecaudatis : alis omnihus stihtiis bninneis, strigis fasciisque saturatioribus. 



Alar, exp., 1" &". Hab. Japoniam. 



Nearly allied to A. Rama, KolL, but abundantly distinct tbere- 

 from. The fore-wings are more produced at tbe apex tlian in A. 

 JRama, and tbe hind- wings are completely destitute of a tail. 



All the wings are above of a rich dark blue, widely black bordered, with only a 

 trace of discocellular streaks. Under-side : brown, whitish along inner margin of 

 fore-wing. Fore-wing : an oblong mark closing cell, a spot within cell, a spot below 

 each of these, a transverse sub-macular fascia beyond middle, bent on first median 

 nervure, a series of lunulas along the hind margin, and a line before the fringe darker 

 brown. Sind-ioings : markings very indistinct : a basal row of three minute blackish 

 dots, followed by a transverse band of hardly perceptible brown spots ; a rather large 

 outlmed discocellular mark ; a transverse macidar baud, the spots composing which 

 (except the two nearest the costa) are only outlined with dai'ker ; and a sub-marginal 

 row of crescents, edged interiorly near anal angle by greyish-blue scales. Fringe 

 eliiniug brown. All the dark markings of the under-side are faintly and very nar- 

 rowly edged with lighter brown. 



Libythea Lep if a, 'Moove. — Cannot be distinguished from Himalayan 

 examples. 



Neptis aceris, Lep. — Cannot be separated from the European 

 species. 



JEuripus Charonda, Hew. 



E. japonica, Feld. {Diagoras, Hew.). 



Argynnis Sagana, Doubl., Hew. 



A. Ella, Brem. 



A. Laodice, Pall., var. japonica, Men. 



A.pallescens, Butl. ? — I am somewhat doubtful about this species, 

 which I am almost inclined to regard as a variety of A. Adippe, AV". V. 

 The two specimens now before mo {,^) are much larger and more 

 richly coloured than Mr. Butler represents his A. pallescens, and in- 

 deed, agree more closely in some respects with his A. vorax (Shanghai), 

 especially in the shape of the fore-wings, but they possess the three 

 sub-apical silver spots on the under-side of fore-wing, mentioned as 

 one of the points in which A. pallescens differs from A. vorax. Pro- 

 bably both these forms are local varieties of A. Adippe. 



Pyrameis indica, Herbst. 



P. cardui, Linn. — I have not seen Japanese specimens. 



Vanessa Glauconia, Motsch. — Appears to me only a local form of 

 V. Charonia, Drury. 



