On Lepidoptera from Manchuria and the Corea. 109 



XII. — On Lepidoptera from Manchuria and the Corea. 



By Arthur G. Butler, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. 



The Lepidoptera here enumerated were obtained last year by 

 Mr. W. Wykeham Perry and Lieut. E. B. Levett, of H.M.S. 

 1 Iron Duke/ a*id by Lieut. Alfred Carpenter, of H.M.S. 

 1 Magpie.' These collections are especially interesting, as ex- 

 hibiting a strong resemblance to those received from Japan 

 and the Amur, but at the same time bringing to light several 

 new species. Of the latter, a new Brafimcea, allied to the 

 true B. certhia of Fabricius, from China, and to B. Ledereri of 

 Rogenhofer, from Asia Minor, is perhaps of the most impor- 

 tance ; and its capture in place of the nearly allied B. certhia 

 (a sketch of which I had forwarded to Mr. Perry) is somewhat 

 singular. That gentleman writes to me respecting it as 

 follows : — u I have sent emissaries all over the Chusan Islands 

 and about Shanghai for Brahmcea certhia ^ Fabr., without suc- 

 cess, and gave Carpenter a copy of your sketch, to help him 

 if he came across it. The first day he entered Chosan Har- 

 bour in Corea, the very moth flew on board his vessel. The 

 apparent identity of name may have led to the belief that 

 Chusan was the locality where it was first found. The moth/ 

 certainly to my eye, looks like Fabricius's species. Chosan 

 (or Fusan) Harbour was once surveyed, very long ago, by an 

 English ship, commanded by a Captain Broughton, when we 

 first attempted to make friends with the Coreans." This moth, 

 however, is evidently a good representative species, differing 

 as much from B. certhia of China as that species does from B. 

 Ledereri ; and the resemblance between the names of the habi- 

 tats of the two species is consequently a mere coincidence. 



The following is an account of the collections ; a few com- 

 mon Japanese species sent with them, and, for the most part, 

 taken at sea off Yokohama, are omitted. 



Ehopalocera. 



1. Satyrus bipunctatus. 



Satyrus bipunctatus, Motschulsky, Etudes Entom. ix. p. 29 (I860). 



Manchuria and Port Lazareff, E. Corea (W. W. Perry); 

 near Ashby Inlet, S.E. Corea (A. Carpenter). 



2. Argynnis nerippe. 



Argynnis nerippe, Felder, Wien. ent. Mon. vi p. 24 (1862) ; Reise 

 der Nov. Lep. iii. pi. 50. figs. 3, 2 (^1667). 



£ . Jinchuen, W. Corea, twenty miles west of the Corean 

 capital Seoul (E. B. Levett). 



