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I may remark that these Korean specimens referred to by 

 Stichel, which recall A. hunea, may be referable to the aberration 

 A. mikuni Wileman, which I described from Mikuni, Bungo 

 Province, Kyushu,^' as "possibly a dimorphic form of A. ilia var. 

 substituta;" but as the type is not at hand, I am unable to say 

 positively and cannot compare it with Seitz's figures of hunea or 

 substituta. 



Stichel catalogues many forms of A. ilia, but the names 

 appearing in the synonymic caption seem to be the only ones 

 connected in any way with China and Japan. 



Of Apatura ilia Schiff. (Seitz, 1, Plate 50c) (= Papilio iris 

 Esp.) Leech remarks that "typical specimens of ilia are either 

 exceedingly local, or of very rare occurrence in eastern Asia," 

 and Seitz does not record it from Asia. Matsumura in his Cata- 

 logus Insectorum Japonicum (sic) mentions that it is found in 

 Honshu. No doubt his ilia Hiibn. equals substituta Btlr., as he 

 does not mention substituta in his catalogue. Apatura ilia seems 

 to be confined to Europe. 



Apatura clytie Schiff. (= iris Esp., julia Schrk., astasia Hbn.) 

 (Seitz, 1, Plate 50c), according to Stichel, also is confined to 

 Europe. Matsumura * records it as a variety of A. ilia from the 

 four islands of Hokkaido (Yezo), Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu 

 and from Korea and China; this also seems to be an error for 

 A. substituta, as his figure, apparently, represents either substi- 

 tuta Butl., or mikuni Wileman, not clytie Schiff. 



Apatiira substituta Butl. (Seitz, 1, Plate 50d) is the common 

 form (?) of ilia in Japan, and is recorded by Stichel from the 

 Japanese islands of Honshu and Hokkaido (Yezo) and from 

 northern China, Korea, and Amurland. Pryer records it from 

 Honshu as ilia, from July to September. I have taken it in 

 Honshu from June to September, in Kyushu in June and July, 

 and in Hokkaido (Yezo) in July and August, The larva appears 

 in June, and there seems to be only one brood of the butterfly in 

 the year. It is to be noted here that Miyajima ^ figures A. ilia 

 Hiibn., male, and Matsumura ® figures A. ilia var. clytie Schiff., 

 male, as being the form of Apatura ilia occurring in Japan. 

 Both the figures given by these authors neither agree in the 



^Entomologist (1910), 43, 93. 



'Thousand Insects of Japan (Nihon Senchu Dzukai) (1907), 4, 79, PI. 

 68, fig. 4, <^. 



•Japanese Butterflies (1904), 134, PI. 14, fig. 6, J. 

 •Thousand Insects of Japan (1907), 4, 79, PI. 68, fig. 4, c?. 



