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Rfiiiarki^ on Japanese Rhoi'ALOCeha and descriptions of Jive 

 appa/entli/ nt'iv -^pt'cics ; l^v Oliveu E. Jansox. 



Erebia niphonica^ O. Jans., PI. V, f. 5. 

 Erehia niphonica, O. Jausou, Cist. Eiit. II, p. 153 (1877). 



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



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

 dentations of the wings much stronger and more acute ; above 

 bright fulvous red, the black spots smaller tlian 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]ianse of wings 2-2;^ inches. 



Yokohama. 



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

 Ml-. H. Pryer, who has taken both it and angelica in large num- 

 bers, and has expressed the improbability of their being varieties 

 of one species. I have examined a large series of both sexes 

 and find the characters given above are always constant ; the 

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

 very distinct from the pale yellow of angelica. 



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

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



Linneus's description, although almost useless for the purpose 

 of identification, agrees quite well with the species figured by 

 Cramer as c-anrenm, Lin., and Fabricius's description of the 

 Linnean species applies without doubt to the same, although he 

 erroneously described the female as another species under the 

 name of interrogation is. The figures of both sexes given by 



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Cisti;la Entomoi-ogica, 

 June 30th, 1878. 



