from Japan and Shanghai. 93 



ground-colour becomes yellower in tint : primaries with a large 

 bifid black f?pot cross the middle of the cell ; a second similar 

 spot divided by the base of the first median branch ; a broad 

 patch (widest upon the costa) across tlie discocellulars ; two 

 small, (piadrati', discal black spots, placed obli(|ucly uj)on the 

 median interspaces ; a broad, tapering, subapical patch, dcn- 

 tated externally, its base resting upon the costal margin ; a 

 large, subquadrate chocolate patch, confluent with the submar- 

 ginal scries (so as to enclose a lunulc of the ground-colour) at 

 external angle, and two linear, subaj)ical, angulatcd markings 

 of the same colour, but feebly indicated : secondaries with a 

 rounded subcostal spot, an elongated, oblique, discocellular 

 spot, and a spot at the base of each median interspace black ; 

 a broad discal macular band of chocolate, only separated 

 from the submarginal spots of the same colour by a 

 series of five golden-orange lunate spots : body brown ; 

 crest, collar, and thorax densely clothed with bright olive- 

 green hairs having bright bronze reflections ; palpi grey, 

 fringed on their upper edge with white, their inferior surface 

 white, edged externally with black. Wings below brown, 

 varied with grey, and covered with irregular black striee ; two 

 extremely irregular transverse black lines, indicating a central 

 band ; the disk of primaries and a broad, subapical, costal 

 patch on the secondaries, white, clouded with grey and striated 

 with grey and black ; a discal series of more or less rounded 

 spots, and a submarginal series of lunated spots, golden green : 

 secondaries with a central, silvery white, semicircular marking; 

 pectus i)uri)lish grey ; tibias and tarsi yellow ; venter grey, 

 yellowish towards the anus. Expanse of wings 2 inches 2 

 lines. 



About 370 miles from Tokei (Yedo). 



V. hamigera is probably the species erroneously referred to 

 C. album by Mr. Mun-ay ; it is utterly distinct. 



Argynnis nerippCy Felder. 



A very fine example, differing from the typical form in 

 having the submarginal spots of secondaries tawny, and the 

 ocelli below as large as the black spots above. 



About 370 miles from Tokei. 



Argynnis rahdia^ n. sp. 



Argynnis daphne, Butler (nee Denis), Joum. Linn. Soc. ix, 1866; Mur- 

 ray, Ent. Mo. Mag. xiii. p. 33, 1870. 



This species is certainly distinct from its European congener, 

 being larger, paler, less heavily spotted above and much more 



