1881.] OF AMURLAND, NORTH CHINA, AND JAPAN. 895 



Neptis pryeri, Butler, Trans. Eut. Soc. 18/1, p. 561; Lep. Ex. 

 t. 6.3; Jans. Cist. Ent. ii. p. 155. 



Limenitis arboretorum, Oberthiir, Et. Ent. ii. p. 24, t. iii. (1876). 



I'ouiul in Japan by Jonas and ]Maries, at Ningpo by Pryer, Kiangsi 

 by David, and at Yladivostock by Christoph. 



I have no Japanese specimens ; but Mr. Janson says that several 

 taken at the foot of Oyama by Jonas, agree perfectly with Ober- 

 thiir's figure of iV. arboretorum. 



I may say the same of those from Yladivostock in Dr. Staudinger's 

 collection, 



N. SANGAICA, Moore, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, xx. p. 47. 



Said to be most nearly allied to N. ulompra from Assam ; but the 

 type specimens from Ningpo in Fryer's collection seem to me very 

 near N. eurynome, Westw., though distinguished by the absence on 

 both sides of hind wing of the marginal lunules. The intermediate 

 white band is almost obsolete. 



N. EURYNOME, Westw. in 2nd edit. Donov. Ins. China, p. &6 

 (1842). 



Papilio leucothoe, Donov. Ins. China, t. 35. tig. 3 (1798), nee 

 Cram. 



From the Ningpo hills (^Prijev). 



N. ALWiNA, Brem. & Grey, Schm. nbrdl. China, p. 7, t. i. fig. 4 

 (1853). 



t Limenitis kampferi, De I'Orza, Lep. Jap. p. 40 (1869). 

 ?A^ excellens, Butler, Cist. Ent. ii. p. 282 (1878). 



Three specimens from Japan in my collection differ but very 

 little from Bremer's figure of A^. ahoina, which comes from Pekin, 

 though the spots on upperside of fore wing are not quite so large or 

 well formed. Two specimens from Chefoo in Dr. Staudinger's col- 

 lection also come very close to N. alwina, 



L. kcempferi is probably the same ; but the description is obscure. 

 As regards N. excellens, Butler, I find that the type of this insect 

 in the British Museum is a paper figure stuck on a pin, the " excel- 

 lent drawing" from which the species was described (see Cist. 

 Ent. ii. p. 282), I believe specimens have since been received cor- 

 resjionding with this figure ; but it seems to me that the practice 

 of describing from figures in such a case as this can only lead to 

 confusion, and that there can be no excuse for it when the specimens 

 from which the figures are taken are believed to exist. 



The excellence of a drawing for scientific purposes consists in its 

 likeness to the original, which cannot be known without comparison 

 with the specimen. 



JuNONiA LEMONiAs, Liun. Mus. Ulr. p. 277. 

 Recorded by De I'Orza from Japan. 



