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On some Butterflies recently sent, home from Japan hi/ Mr. 

 Montague Fenton ; by Arthuk G. Butlkh, F.L.S., F.Z.S., 

 &c. 



Mr. Fentou'.s letter, accompauying the present consignment, is 

 directed fi-om Daigaku Yobimou, Tokei Japan ; tlie species are 

 as follows : — 



1. Vanessa Fenton!, n. s]i. (No. GO). 



Wings bright tawny ; primaries with black markings as in 

 V. satyrus of the United States, excepting that the two spots 

 upon the median interspaces are of twice the size ; secondaries 

 with the black spots across the middle arranged as in C-aUmni. ; 

 outer border broadly and irregularly black, intersected hj six 

 broad sub-confluent lunated tawny spots ; outer margin ii'rorated 

 with tawny ; bases of the wings, abdominal l)order of secondaries 

 and body as in the allied species ; wings below extremely like 

 V. satyrus, but paler and with the bands less strongly defined ; 

 the silver C shorter, and, therefore, less like a G. Expanse of 

 wings 2 inches 3 lines. 



This species belongs to the V. egea group rather than to that 

 of C-albmn, the pattern of the imder surface being far more 

 like the former than the latter ; in form it scarcely differs fi-om 

 V. I -album, excepting that the apical portion of the primaries 

 is slightly narrower ; in the pattern and coloration of the upper- 

 side it is very like V. satyrus, to which it is evidentlv more 

 nearly allied than to any •either known species. 



2. Argynnis rabdia, Butler (No. 7'J). 

 The example sent is the largest that I have yet seen. 



T). Melita'a niphona, n. sp. (No. 84). 



9 Allied to iV. atJtalia of Europe, but considerably lai-ger ; 

 the discal line placed farther from the submarginal one, and 

 almost divided into spots in the primaries ; wings beloAv alto- 

 gether paler than in M, athalia, the secondaries being creamy 



