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PAREBA. By Dr. A. Seitz. — Additions. 



vesta. 



impressed grooves therefore being rather widely apart (Jordan). The larva stout, with false spines, usually bright- 

 coloured. Pupa smooth, without long processes on the head, the latter being truncate, the shoulders somewhat 

 carinate, the back with smaller or larger tubercles, which are sometimes produced into a point; usuallj' bright- 

 coloured and, like the pupae of Melitaea, spotted. The butterflies occur in all the main divisions of the globe, 

 except Europe. They occur always in abundance, but are local. Their flight is weak and slow, but not awkward^ 

 in many species swimming as in Melitaea. They visit flowers of all kinds. When at rest they are so little shy 

 that they can be taken up with the fingers. Many have a very disagreeable scent, which is also evident in the 

 larvae, and obviously are protected. 



17. Genus: Pareba l>hl. 



Head thick; eyes naked; antennae gradually incrassate, the club slightly flattened. Wings elongate ; the cell 

 closed in both wings, in the forewing long and narrow, reaching beyond the middle of the wing. Ground-colour 

 yellow, with more or less black markings. The $ after copulation with a horny pouch at the apex of the abdomen, 

 nearly as in Parnassius. The larva with a smooth, hornless head, the dorsal processes rather pointed and 

 longer than the lateral ones. Pupa anteriorly rounded, with two feeble tubercles on the head ; long and narrow, 

 with but small and low warts on the back. The butterflies are lazy fliers; they visit flowers and drink on 

 damp spots in the beds of brooks. The genus is restricted to South Asia inclusive of the Malay Archipelago. 



P. vesta F. (= terpsichore Cr., anomala Koll.) (71d). Upperside thinly scaled, pale ochreous, the costal 

 and distal margins narrowly blackish brown, as is also a comma-spot on the crossveins of the forewing, the 

 outer margii\ bearing a row of yellow spots. These spots are shaded with dull orange-red in the anal region 

 of the hindwing. The upperside varies much in the extent of black, being sometimes entirely black (especially 

 in the $), the ground-colour of such specimens being reduced to a few pale clouds. The larva emerges in the 

 autumn, hibernating very small and being at first quite black; adult dark red-brown with light spots and 

 reddish spines, head yellowish brown, bearing black spots and a white frontal stripe. It is gregarious on 

 Boehmeria salicifolia and drops into the grass when disturbed (Young). The butterflies are local and are always 

 found near the food-plant. They occur from July until September, going up to 4000 ft. in the mountains. In 

 Kashmir, West and Central China, locally extremely abundant. Besides these Palaearctic districts, the species 

 is widely distributed in India. 



Corrections and Additions. 



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1. Genus: Apatura (p. 160). 



A. suhcaerulea Leech (cf. p. 163) is the $ of fulva Leech (cf. p. 164) according to OBERTHtjR (Et. Lepid. 

 comp. 11.) (Stichel). 



modesta. A. modesta Oberth. is similar in shape to A. jasciola (p. 164) and does not appear to be specifically 



distinct. Upperside brown, forewii.g with an indistinct darker shadowy median band, likewise with a somewhat 

 darker shade in the apical and distal marginal areas. On the distal side of the shadowy band, near the costa, 

 there is an elongate whitish double spot, above and below the middle of the anterior median branch two small 

 more indistinct light spots, and near the apex a small rounded white spot with a white dot below it. 

 Both wings have a small indistinct ocellus in the anal area. The hindwing bears a dark edge to the outer margin 

 and a feebly marked submarginal row of spots. Beneath paler, the basal half of both wings somewhat darkened, 

 these spots with sharply defined S-shaped edges, otherwise the light spots as above, the ocelli with blue centre, 

 at the distal margin of both wings a narrow dark shadowy band and indistinct submarginal spots. — Western 

 China: Siao-lou, Moupin, Tieatsuen. The author compares modesta with A. phaeacia Hew.; we cannot see any 

 close affinity; but we learn from this remark by OBERTHtjR that phaeacia, an Indian species, extends northward 

 to Tse-kou (Tibet). It will be dealt with in the volume on the Exotics. 

 laeta. In Tse-kou occurs a smaller subspecies of A. schrenckii Men. (p. 164), which OsERTHtiR has named laeta. 



It has the white spots of the upperside and the yellow and bluish markings of the underside more sharply 

 defined and brighter in colour (Stichel). 



3. Genus: Neptis (p. 173). 



mothone. Lately another, smaller, form has been separated from N. armandia Oberth. (p. 178) assubspecies mothone 



Fruhst., based on a single $ with the forewing 35 mm long. The bands above and beneath, moreover, are 



taphos. paler than in the main form. Presumably from Chang-Yang. — Probably ab. taphos Fruhst. also belongs 



here; the ochreous bands are darker and more sharply defined, the yellow spots of tlie underside more extended 



and the middle violet zigzag line of the hindwing is stronger. West China. (Stichel). 



13. Genus: Timelaea (p. 226). 



T. maciilata. Add as a synonym of it Argynnis leopardina Luc. (Seitz). 



14. Genus: Argynnis (p. 226). 



ab. weidi Gillm. (p. 235) is not a form of daphne but of ino (Seitz). 



