pryen, 

 diiplicata. 



182 LIMENITIS. By H. Stichel. 



land; West and Central China; Corea. — pryeri Moore is on an average larger, the white markings are widened, 

 both wings have distinct while suhmarginal spots, tlie underside is more strongly marked with more prominent 

 white spots on the hindwing. North-East China (Ning-po), Ussuri, Amurland, Corea, Japan. — In duplicata 

 Stgr. iS 61d, 57b underside of ?, erroneously named doerriesi U. on plate) the increase in the size of the white 

 markings reaches its maximum; the band of the hindwing is continuous and of double or threefold width. 

 Amurland. 



doerriesi. L. docrriesi Stgr. (57b only 3**), 61d $) is so extremely similar to the preceding that there is justification 



for doubting the specific distinctness. It has at the apex of the cell of the forewing a feeble reddish brown 

 stripe (not represented in the figure), there being in the $ occasionally also a reddish spot anteriorly in the 

 centre of the cell. Near the distal margin of both wings, contiguous to a row of sharply marked small black 

 spots, there are mostly also white elongate spots (absent from tlie figure of the J), which are not present in 

 the anterior area of the forewing, but may be considerably enlarged at the centre of'the distal margin. The 

 white spots situated between the median veins of the forewing stand somewhat nearer the middle of the wing 

 than in duplicata. The inner edge of the while band on the underside of the hindwing is said to afford an essen- 

 tial difference from duplicata. This edge in doerriesi projects below the subcostal somewhat towards the distal 

 margin , and is here as well as between the radials quite straight or feebly undulate (concave towards the 

 Itase), while in duplicata the brownish portion of the basal area projects twice in arc-shape into the respective 

 white spots of the band. In the (^ the rest of the underside is almost as in duplicata, the white band, however, 

 is somewhat narrower and there are distinct black dots in the grey spots of the marginal area. In the rather 

 larger $ the outer area of the underside is more evenly ochreous, with white marginal lunules and a row of 

 small elongate white spots in a narrow grey band; before each of these spots there is a black dot, the anal angle 

 as in the ^ bearing a double dot. Amurland: Sutshan (Ussuri). 



homeyeri. L. homeycri Tancre (57c) is somewhat more narrow-winged than the jirevious forms, but very similar 



lo them, being more delicately marked. The middle spots of the discal row of the forewing as in doerriesi 

 project less distally, the band of the hindwing however is anteriorly narrower and there is a row of distinct 

 venata. small while spots in the marginal area of the hindwing. Amur, Ussuri. — venata Leech (57c) is a larger form 

 of a darker tint, with the white markings enlarged, which is especially eviiienl with liie cell -streak of the 

 forewing and the band of the hindwing. On the underside too the ground has a deeper colour, the markings 

 are silky white, the band of the hindwing being sharply traversed by the black veins. South -East and 

 West China. 



amphyssa. L. amphyssa Mm. agress in size with doerriesi, differing from the latter chiefly in the cell-streak of 



the forewing being absent. The cell bears instead a smaller and a larger white spot, beyond the cell there is 

 an oblique macular band which is continued near the margin of the wing by two isolated spots; before the hind 

 margin a larger double spot, near the apex 3 smaller linear spot and at the margin a row of such spots, all white. 

 Hindwing with a broad white band and a row of white spots between the band and the margin, the fringes 

 being black and white. Underside brownish, the markings as above, but larger; the hindwing bluish at the 

 base and before the hindmargin. — Amurland: Bureja. Ussuri; Corea; Central China. 



cleophas. L. cleophast'^tT^/?. (61c) is a larger species with a spot in the cell of the forewing; the macular band situated 



outside the cell stands nearer the cell, otherwise the markings similar to those of helmanni, but the spots larger, 

 except those before the hindmargin, which are comparatively small, the anterior one being indistinct, at the 

 margin an obsolescent whitish stripe. Band of hindwing curved in S-shape, in the outer area of the wing a 

 row of obsolescent lunules and close to them a white suhmarginal stripe. Underside brown, markings as above, 

 but broader, the cell of the forewing bluish white at the base with two black transverse stripes. The basal 

 and hindmarginal areas of the hindwing likewise bluish, interrupted anteriorly by reddish brown spots; the 

 margin dark brown from the white band to a band of light lunules, which bear each a blackish dot ; then follows 

 a pale brownish yellow stripe and at the edge a brownish undulate line. Recalls Athyma recurva. — West 

 China: Ta-tsien-lu, Mupin. 



riviitaris. L. rivularis Scop. (= Camilla W. V., Riihl, Stgr., Spul. a. o., ttec L. ; iucilla Esp., drusilla Bergstr.) (57c). 



Ground-colour blue-black, markings similar to those of Camilla, the spots of the forewing somewhat differently 

 placed and less numerous, the band of the hindwing intersected by broad vein-streaks and placed nearer the 

 base. At the margin of the wings, especially of the hindwing, bluish white dots. Underside pale greyish brown 

 with reddish patches, the white markings enlarged, the hindwing with bluish grey basal area and beyond it 

 an abbreviated reddish brown band. $ larger, the blue marginal spots of the upperside more distinct, the white 

 pytho/iissa. markings somewhat larger, ab. pythonissa Mill, is a form rarely found in nature, but lately produced in experi- 



*) The figure on PI. 57 row b named doerriesi U. represents duplicata. 



