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THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 





Amur. 



N.W.Iudiii. 



CMna. 



Corea. 



Japan, 



Rhodocera rhanini 



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Colias hyale 



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NvMPHALIDiE 













ArgjDnis selene 



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,, latona 



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,, aglaia 



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,, adijjpe 



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+ ? 



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„ paphia 



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Meliteea aurinia 



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,, athalia 



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Vanessa c-album 



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,, urticos 



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,, io 



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,, antiopa 



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,, cardui 



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Limenitis sibylla 



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Apatueid^ 













Apatura iris 



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Satyrid^ 













Satyrus seniele 





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Epinephele hyperanthes 



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Lyc^nid^ 













Thecla w-album 



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,, pruni 



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,, rubi 



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+ ? 



Polyommatus pMoeas 



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Lycasna boetica 





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„ argiades 



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,, segon 



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„ astrarche 



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,, icarus 



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,, argiolus 



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,, semiargus 



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,, minima 



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,, arion 



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HESPERIIDiE 













Syrichthus malvae 



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Nisoniades tages 



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Hesperia lineola 



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,, sylvanus 



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,, comma 



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Carterocephalus palsemon 



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Papilio machaon, Linn. — Mr. Elwes says : — " The forms of 

 P. machaon found in N.E. Asia seem to be similar to the European 

 ones, though usually larger. In Kamtschatka, according to 



Menetries, the variety which he calls asiatica differs 



generally in the broader black band and markings, which, how- 

 ever, vary extremely, and gradually increase until in the var. 

 hipjjocrates (which I have only seen from China and Japan) 

 the yellow is half obliterated by the black markings." 



There are several broods in each year, the first batch of 

 imagines appearing in March and April. Prom ova deposited 

 by a typical female captured at Nagasaki, Japan, in the last- 

 named month, Mr. Leech bred, in the following June, a fine 

 series of vars, asiatica and Idppocrutes ; "some specimens had 

 the usual proportion of black and yellow, others were of a much 

 deeper yellow than the ordinary type, and some were nearly all 



