1887.] OF JAPAN AND COREA. 421 



Central Japan and Yesso. V. " prr/eri" is only taken in autumn or 

 after hybernation. The other forms of this variable species occur 

 all through the summer. 



86. Vanessa urtic^, Linn. 



F. connexa, Butl. P. Z. S. 1881, p. 851. 



This is a very good local form of urticce. I took it about half- 

 way up the volcano near Hakodate in September, and I believe it 

 does not occur in other parts of Japan. I hear that the same form 

 occurs in Amurland with the intermediate forms. An English en- 

 tomologist in Hakodate informed me that the larva was like that of 

 urticce, and fed upon nettles. 



87. Vanessa callirhoe, Fabr, 

 Papilio atalanta indica, Herbst. 

 Common all over Japan and Corea. 



88. Vanessa cardui, Linn. 



This is not a common species ; I took it at Yesso and Corea, and 

 it occurs near Yokohama. 



89. Vanessa io, Linn. 



Not very common in Central Japan, where it keeps to the moun- 

 tains, but plentiful in Yesso and Corea. It does not vary in the 

 least from European specimens. 



90. Vanessa charonia. 



V. charonia, Drury, Ex. Ent. i. t. 15 (1773) ; Brem. Lep. Ost- 

 Sib. p. 18. 



Var. glauconia, Motsch. Et. Ent. ix. p. 28 (1860). 



Common all over Japan and Corea. It is a variable species in the 

 width of the blue submarginal bands and the size and colour of the 

 costal spots, which may be either blue or white ; the blue submar- 

 ginal band of the fore wing, which usually ceases at its junction with 

 the larger costal spot, is in some specimens carried up as far as the 

 apical spot, noticeably so in specimens taken in the mountain-districts 

 of Central Japan in October. 



■^l. Vanessa antiopa, Linn. 



I took this species at Hakodate in August and in Oiwake (Cen- 

 tral Japan) in October. It does not diflfer from European examples, 

 and has the same habit of settling on the road, and, when disturbed, 

 taking a short flight and returning to the same spot. 



92. Vanessa xanthomelas, Schiff. 



Common all over Japan and Corea. Some specimens are remark- 

 ably large and bright. 



