1881.] OF AMURLAND, NORTH CHINA, AND JAPAN. 883 



NiPHANDA FUSCA. 



Thecla fusca, Brcni. & Grey, Schm. noidl. China, p. 9 (1833). 



Thecla fusca. Men. Cat. Mus. Petr. i. t. iv. (1855). 



^ Amblypodia dispar, Brem. Lep. Ost-Sib. p. 24, t. iii. (1864). 



PoJijommatus fusais, Oberthur, Et. Ent. ii. p. 20, t. iv. 



Tliis species is recorded from tlie Amur and Pekin {Bremer). 

 I have specimens from Ningpo {Prijer) and Japan (Pri/er) which 

 agree very well with Bremer's and OI)erthiir's figures. The female 

 differs considerably from the male. There are specimens in Dr. 

 Staudinger's collection from Iladdefskaia and Baranfsky. This 

 species is referred by Butler to Moore's genus Niphanda, of which 

 the type is iV. tessellata, Moore, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 572, t. Ixvi. 

 fig. 6. It does not, however, seem to resemble the figure of this insect 

 in form or colour. 



DiPSAS s^PESTRiATA, Hcw. 111. Dium. Lep. p. 67, t. xxvi. 

 (1865). 



This species seems common in Japan, and occurs also at Via- 

 divostoek, where it was taken by Dorries. 



D. LTJTEA, Hew. 111. Dium. Lep. p. &T , t. xxvi. (1865). 



This species also occurs in the same localities as the last, but does 

 not seem so common. 



D. JONASI, Jans. Cist. Ent. ii. p. 157. 



Taken at the Yokawa river in Japan hy Jonas* A single specimen 

 from Askold, collected by Dorries, is in Dr. Staudinger's collection. 



D. RAPHAELis, Oberthiir, Et. Ent. v. p. 20, t. v. fig. 1 (1880). 



This species, which is allied to the last, is from Askold, where it 

 appears to be not common. 



D. MicHAELis, Oberthiir, Et. Ent. v. p. 19, t. v. fig. 2 (1880). 



This species, which is also from Askold, appears to belong to the 

 same group as the four preceding, though the yellow of the upper 

 surface is much overlaid with brown. 



Thecla smaragdina, Brem. Lep. Ost-Sib. p. 25, t. iii. fig. 5. 



T. taxila, Brem. loc. cit. p. 26, t. iii. fig. 7. 



The group of Thecla with green males and brown or purplish 

 females is very well represented in Amurland and Japan, as also in 

 the Himalayas. 7"here is, however, much difficulty in making out 

 some of the forms, and it was only after I had consulted Dr. Stau- 

 dinger that I came to any conclusion on the subject. Bremer 

 figures T. taxila twice over, what he considers as the female being I 

 believe the female of T. smaragdina, and what he calls the male being 

 probably the female of a form of T. japonica occurring in Amurland. 

 No male insect of that colour is yet known among the various species 

 of this group of Thecla ; and if T. taxila is a distinct species, we 



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