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Oberth. Larger, bases of anterior wings dusky ; resembles some of 

 Fryer's specimens from Japan. 



P. melete, Men. — Vladimar Bay. One male, August 5th, 1897. 



Leptidia sinapis, L., gen. sest. diniensis, B. — Vladimar Bay. One 

 male, August 9th, 1897. This specimen differs in no way from 

 European examples. 



L. aniurensis, Men. — Vladimar Bay. Two specimens, August 5th ; 

 two, August 8th ; one, August 9th ; two without date. These seven 

 specimens do not differ from those in a series of twenty-eight speci- 

 mens taken by Pryer at Oiwaki, Japan, or from others received from 

 the late Dr. Staudinger from the Amur. I have never been able to 

 understand why Staudinger should suggest that amurensis is a var. of 

 sinapis, and yet gives duponcheli specific rank. From Vladimar Bay it 

 will be noticed that we have sinapis in its summer form, taken at the 

 same time as amureiisis, which is altogether different in its appearance 

 and conformation. 



Colias kyale var. poliographus, Mots. — Port Hamilton, Corea. June 

 6th, 17th. 



C. aurora, Esp. — Vladimar Bay. August, 1897. One worn female. 



NYMPHALIDiE. 



Li^nenitis sydi var. latefasciata, Men. — Vladimar Bay. One female, 

 August 8th, 1897. 



Melitaa plotina, Brem. — Vladimar Bay. One female, August 6th, 

 1897. 



Argynnis selene, Schiff. — Vladimar Bay. One female, August 6th, 

 1897. 



A. daphne, Schiff. — Vladimar Bay. Ten males, August 5th ; one 

 male and three females, August 8th. The males are smaller, and 

 both sexes are less vividly fulvous than the specimens taken by myself 

 in Provence and Hungary. 



A. aglaia var. fortuna, Jans. — Vladimar Bay. One female, August 

 9th, 1897. 



A. adippe var. xanthodippe, Fixs. — Vladimar Bay. Two males, 

 August 6th ; one, August 3rd, one female which I put down to this 

 var., as the silvery markings are absent except the marginal lunules. 

 Some specimens of this come very near to the Spanish ab. cleodippe. 

 This form differs from the next, not only in the absence of the silvery 

 spots, but in having the androconia on veins 2 and 3 of the fore wings. 

 A form received from Staudinger in 1898 from Kentei resembles the 

 above, and was named cleodippe. The present edition calls it xantho- 

 dippe, retaining cleodippe for the Spanish var. 



? A. adippe var. pallescens, Butl. — Vladimar Bay. Two males on 

 August 1st, and six on August 5th ; one female, August Brd. I place 

 these under this head on the strength of Staudinger's remark, " S 

 lunul. marginalibus argenteis." All these males have the androconia 

 only on vein 2. Mr. Elwes (Trans. Ent. Soc. 342, 1899) says : 

 " Those with the androconia only on vein 2 seem to occur in Amurland, 

 Korea, and in North and Central China and Japan." He expresses 

 an opinion that they may belong to another species. It is to be 

 remarked that typical adippe and vars. cleodoxa and chlorodippe have 



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