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Remarks on Japanese Rhoi'ALOCEUA and (lescriptiona of Jive 

 apparentlfi new i^pecic^ ; hv OrjVKit E. Jansox. 



Erebia nipJumica, O. Jans., PI. V, f. 5. 

 Erehia niphonica, O. Jauson, Cist. But. 11, p. 153 (1877). 



Vanessa Pryeri. u. sp., PI. V, f. 2. 



Allied to V. angelica, Cram., but smaller aud with tlie external 

 deutatious of the wiugs much stronger and more acute ; above 

 bright fulvous red, the black spots smaller than in angelica and 

 clearly defined, the apical margins rather broadly ochreous, 

 speckled with brown and bordered inwardly with brown lunular 

 marks ; beneath ochreous-brown or chocolate suffused with pink- 

 ish towards the apex, a central band and numerous fine irregular 

 transverse lines on both wings, and several marks in the cell of 

 the primaries similar to angelica, but darker and more clearly 

 defined, the L shaped silvery mark on the secondaries large and 

 conspicuous. Ex])anse of Avings 2-2\ inches. 



Yokohama . 



I have much pleasure in dedicating this species to my friend, 

 ^Ir. II. Pryer, who has taken both it and angelica in large num- 

 liers, and has expressed the improbability of their being varieties 

 of one species. I have examined a large series of l)()th sexes 

 and find the cliaracters given al)Ove are always constant; the 

 colour of the underside of Pryeri varies shghtly, but is always 

 verv distinct from the pale yellow of angelica. 



I adojit Cramer's name of angelica, as I cannot see any reason 

 for considering that species identical with the c-uiriruin, Lin. 



Liniieus's description, although almost useless for the purpose 

 of identification, agrees ((uite well with the species figured by 

 r'ramei- as c-auroim, Liii., and I''a1)ricius's description of the 

 liinnean species applies without doul)t to the same, although he 

 erroneouslv described the female as another species under the 

 name of intrrrogationis. The ligui-es of both sexes given by 



CiSTL LA EnTOMOLOCICA, 



June 30th, 1878. 



