444 DR. T. A. CHAPMAN ON THE SPECIES [Apr. 27, 
There seems to be no other American Lycenopsis, but the species 
is found over the whole of North America, from Centra] America 
to Canada, with a profusion of named and unnamed races and 
aberrations. 
The Asiatic forms mentioned by Dr. Butler are :— 
levettii Butler. Corea. 
huegelti Moore. Himalayas. 
ladonides de YOrza. Japan. 
celestina Kollar. Western India. 
victoria Swinhoe. Shillong. 
The last species astonished me a good deal when I first found it 
to be a race of argiolus, but its markings, &c. are found to conform 
to those of argiolus. 
One of the most interesting features of the Indian Lycnopsids 
is the parallel variation of certain species, and probably of others 
the variability of which has not so directly come under my notice. 
The first point to attract my attention was the similar forms 
found in Z. argiolus and L. limbata. 
We have ZL. argiolus vars. huegelit and cclestina paralleled by 
L. limbata and its var. placida. This would not strike one as 
remarkable were it not for the further close likeness between 
argiolus var. sikkima, and limbata var. jynteana. 
These two forms were distinguished by Moore and separately 
dlescribed, but he afterwards was obviously unable to name them 
with certainty, and there is a specimen of sikkima in the Brit. 
Mus. Collection named by him jynteana. 
De Nicéville, Butt. of India, vol. ni. p. 105, treated the dis- 
tinction between these two species with more than scepticism, and 
Bingham sinks sikkima asa synonym of jynteana. Both forms 
seem to vary in the breadth of the dark border and in the presence 
or absence of a discal line, but sikkima inclines to the broadest 
border and is less rarely without the line. Apart from the 
ancillary appendages, which show sikkima to be aform of argiolus 
and jynteana to be a race of limbata, the structures being 
exceedingly different, the two forms may be separated by the 
line of spots under the fore wing, the third spot (second of those 
in a row, the first being moved inwards) being slightly oblique in 
jynteana (as it is in the co-specific forms limbata and placida), 
whilst it is like the others in sikkima (as it is in argiolus, though 
there are some races in which this varies). 
There are two further forms of argiolus that I hardly like to 
give separate names to, because they are. really very close to 
sikkima, if not identical: one of these flies with Z. puspa. Of 
this I have four rather poor specimens received in papers from 
Col. Bingham, along with a number of puspa collected by 
Col. E. R. Johnson in Assam: submitted to Col. Bingham, he 
thought they might be jynteana, puspa, alboceerulea, or chennellit. 
They were, as we have seen, jynteana in almost the same sense 
that sikkima is jynteana. It is really very close to sikkima, but 
