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be confounded, by its larger size, smaller spots, and markings, and 

 general paler appearance. Adippe, except when faded, has always a 

 bright chestnut tint ; nerippe is fawn-coloured. The female is very 

 rare in proportion to the male, and is far larger than any adippe I 

 have ever seen. 



Coreana, Butl., is said to difiFer from nerippe in the prominence of 

 the sexual patch on the first median branch of the fore wing ; this 

 character is variable and may be altogether absent. I brought home 

 over a hundred specimens, which show a good deal of variation, but 

 none of any specific importance. 



105. Argynnis sagana, Doubleday. 



Damora paulina, Nordm. Bull. Mosc. 1851, iv. p. 440, t. xii. 

 figs. 1, 2. $ . 



A^'ery common all over Japan and Corea. 1 have a large series 

 also from Ningpo and Amurland ; they are remarbably constant, 

 although the Amur specimens are smaller. 



106. Argynnis laodice. 



A. laodice, Pall. Reise, i. p. 470 (1771). 

 \ar.japonica, Men. Cat. ii. p. 152, t. x. f. 3. 

 Common all over Japan and Corea. The largest specimens re- 

 present _;cr/30M2Cfl, and from Ningpo I have a larger form still. 



107. Argynnis anadyomene, Feld, 



A. ella, Brem. Lep. Ost-Sib. p. 94, t. viii. fig. 1 (1864). 

 Common all over Japan aud Corea. Identical with Amur and 

 North-China specimens. 



108. Argynnis PAPHiA, Linu. 



A.paphioides, Butl. Ann. &^Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vii. p. 134. 



Common iu Japan and Corea. They are rather larger than the 

 European form and darker. The female is intermediate between 

 the usual type aud var. valesina. I have the true var. valesina from 



Ningpo. 



109. Argynnis ruslana. 



A. ruslana, Motsch. Bull. Mosc. 1866, iii. p. 117. 



A.lysippe, Jans. Cist. Ent. ii. p. 154 (1877). 



This species shares the characters of paphia and laodice — the 

 shape of the wings and markings of upper surface being allied to 

 paphia, the underside of hind wings reminding one of laodice. It 

 is not rare at Hakodate in August, and I took it also at Nikko in 

 September. It is the same size as paphia. 



110. DaNAIS TYTIA. 



D. tytia, Gray, Lep. Ins. Nep. p. 9, t. ix. fig. 2. 



This fine species occurs all over Japan. I observed a curious 

 habit this Butterfly has, on the island of Kami Koshigi, off the 

 coast of Satsuma. Just at dusk they ceased flying, and each chose 



