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c? ? . The ordinary form has the njiperside of the body and forowing more or 

 less bright- olive-green, but there oecnr also s])ecimens witli the green replaced by 

 reddish brown. This form was discovered by Popoff at Kiachta, and described 

 by Eversmann under the name of ecersinanni, given to it in U(f. by Popoff, who had 

 apparently several specimens. There are two individuals of tliis form in the Paris 

 Museum correctly identified as eversmanni. Staudinger redescril)ed a Kiaclita 

 iudividual (bred in May IS.");")) as hrunnea, not knowing that his individual was tiie 

 true eversmanni, and doubtless one of the specimens distributed by Popoff. Bartel, 

 I.e., has correctly ([noted brunnea as a synonym of erersmanni. By some oversight 

 erer-smanni is sunk as a synonym of tutnvinovi in Stand. & Keb.'s Catalogue, / c.^ 

 and brunnea kept as tbe name of the reddish brown form. Both Menetries and 

 Boisdnval, l.l.e.c, mentioned the brown form ; Bntler, I.e., overlooked the name of 

 eversmanni. Leech records a brown specimen from Ja})an (now in the British 

 Mnseum), and refers it doubtfully to '' britn//ea." We have another Japanese 

 individual agreeing with erersmanni (— liriirinea). The brown loi-ni, tln'vefore, is 

 not local. The synonymy is as follows : 



Green form. 



a}. C. tafarinori f. norm, tatarinori. 



I/. C. tafarinori f. ab. erersmanni. 



Smiriiithu^ rnrsniimiii Eversmann, IhiU. .Unxrou p. 18-i. t. 1. f. 5 (1.S54) (Kiachta ; descr. of larva : — 



Mus. St. Petropolis). 

 Smpriiilliiis Uitiirhiori, Mrnetrius, I.e. 

 *SiiieriiitIiiis talariniivi var. hniiinea Staudinger, in Rom., .\fein. Lep. vi. p. 238; sub n. "227 (18'.t2) 



(Kiachta, v.;— coll. Staudinger); Leech, Trans. Enl. Snr. Loud. p. 279. subn. 40 (1899) (Japan). 

 Siiirrhitliiix tiilai-hwri var. (ab.) //(■««//«(, Staudinger c>t Reb., /.c. sub n. 729 (1901 ) (Kiachta: Japan). 



There does not seem to be any difference between Japanese and Continental 

 tafarinori. The relationsliip of this species with C. rubricosu has not been 

 recognised except by Swinhoe. Bartel, I.e., p. 142, erroneously attributes only one 

 ]iair of hindtibial spurs to tafarinori. 



Paronychium with the upper lobe very slender, the lower one broader, but 

 short and heavily ciliate. Tlie red colour on tlie underside of the forewing variable 

 in e.xteut. 



S. Tenth abdominal tergite slenderer than in the other species, gradually 

 narrowed to the obtuse end and curved downwards ; upperside convex, punctured 

 distally, clotiied with short dispersed hairs ; tenth sternite reduced, without lobe ; 

 ninth tergite with long hair-scales. Clasper (PI. XXXIV. f. 20) : apical half 

 narrowed to form a rather slender lobe, which varies in breadth, but is always 

 curved upwards, and on the inner surface rough with small tubercles ; a subdorsal 

 fold {pel), connected distally with the dorsal edge of the clasper, projects al)ove the 

 harpe and is beset with nnmerons setiferous tubercles ; harpe of the same type as 

 in poecilits and rubrieosa, with two distal processes wliich stand close together, the 

 njjjier one somewhat longer than the lower. Penis-sheath (PI. XXIX. f. 4.5) 

 dorsally prolonged into a narrow flap with which the membrane of the duct is 

 connected ; in the contracted state of the duct the flap, which is dentate, is 

 concealed in the interior of the sheath. 



?. Vaginal plate (PI. XV. f 16) characteristic: a long triangular lobe in 



