1887.] OF JAPAN AND COREA. 415 



distinct black spots ; on the disk is a second irregular row of black 

 spots ; there are three spots in the discoidal cell, the outer one of 

 which is the largest. Hind wings greyish buff, outwardly margined 

 by a broad orange band, bordered on each side with a row of black 

 dots ; an irregular arrangement of black spots, margined with dirty 

 white, is scattered over the remainder of the wing. 



I took this species, during heavy rain, at rest on stems of coarse 

 grass in a swampy gully near the monastery of Chang-Do, about 

 25 miles south of Gensan, in July 1886, 



This species is allied to P. dispar, but its colour resembles 

 ochimus ; the fringes are black, the discoidal spots are absent on all 

 the wings of male, the female has a row of dashes on the fore wings 

 instead of spots, and the disk of hind wiugs is not suffused with 

 copper ; the underside is also different. 



.53. Lycena b^tica, Linn. 



Occurs in several parts of Japan, but is very local ; it does not 

 seem to occur in Corea. 



54. Lyc^na argiades, Pall. 



L. hellotia, Men. Cat. Mus. Petr. ii. p. 124, t. x. fig. 6 (1857). 



L. praxiteles, Feld. Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xii. p. 489 (1862) ; 

 Reise Nov. ii. p. 281, t. xxxv. fig. 5. 



Everes hellotia, JButl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, ix. p. 1/. 



Common all over Japan and Corea during the warm months. It 

 varies in size from | in. to 1| inch. The female also varies in 

 colour and markings, some specimens being much suffused with blue. 



55. Lyc^ena fischeri, Eversm. 



Lyccena filieaudis, Pryer. 



Occurs at Gensan in June. It is also very common in the Snowy 

 Valley, Ningpo, in April. The pale band on the outer margin of 

 the hind wing may be either very distinct, faint, or totally absent. 

 The spots on the underside have a great tendency to coalesce in the 

 manner common to many of this genus. 



56. Lyc^na argia. 



L. argia, Men. Cat. Mus. Petr. ii. p. 125, t. x. fig. 7. 

 L.japonica, Murray, Ent. Mon. Mag. xi. p. 167 (1874). 

 L. dope, Fenton, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 851. 



Of this difficult species I have only been able to form an opinion 

 by collecting a series of over 200 specimens, being representatives 

 from every locality I visited, both in China, Japan, and Corea, and 

 ranging from the beginning of March to the end of October. 



L.japonica, Murray, is said to differ from argia in the absence of 

 the marginal spots of the hind wing in female ; this distinction is 

 without the least scientific value, and every grade occurs, from the 

 most distinctly marked to those destitute of any spots whatever. 



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