LYC^NA. 



Fixseu adds.: "like arion on upper surface, but more strongly marked, and 

 like orion on the under surface with larger spots." He also compares it with 

 eitjphemus, Hiibn. 



Occurs in Corea, and flies in the beginning of June. 



Lycaena chinensis. 



Lyccena chinensis, Murray, Traus. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1874, p. 523, pi. x. fig. 5. 

 Lycana mandschurica, Staudinger, Roiu. sur Lep. vi. p. 160 (1892). 



" Wings brown above, witb a conspicuous submarginal orange band, equally marked on both 

 wings, and a faint black streak closing the cell. In the fore wing the orange band is divided 

 by the veins into almost square spots : in the hind wing the band is composed of a series of 

 contiguous crescents, seated upon a row of black spots. Fringe white ; interrupted by brown. 

 Underside : pale grey-brown, the orange band as conspicuous as above, continuous in both 

 wings. Fore wing : no spot between base and discocellular spot. Beyond middle is a discal 

 row of seven spots, twice bent at a right angle, so that the sixth is immediately below the 

 discocellular spot; the costal spot is small and indistinct. All these spots are white-ringed. 

 The orange band is edged on both sides by a row of spots, the innormos'; row consisting of 

 larger, but less well-detined spots than the outer. Hind wing : a basal row of four spots, a 

 discocellular spot, and a discal row of eight spots, much curved and angulated, all white- 

 ringed. The orange band is edged as on fore wing by rows of spots, but in this case the spots 

 of the outer row are larger than those of the inner. In both wings the fringe, which is 

 spotted, is preceded by a narrow black lino. 



" Expands 1" 3'". 



" This very distinct species is (judging from the markings of the underside) most nearly allied to 

 Lyc. pylaon, F., while the upperside reminds one strongly of X. astrarcJte." {Murray, I. c.) 



Mr. Elwes (Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1881, p. 889) says :— " It is probable 

 that L. chinensis, w^hatever it is, refers to the species which Bremer calls 

 L. pylaon in his Pekin list. Dr. Staudiuger, however, has never seen 

 L. pylaon from any part of Eastern Siberia." 



Staudinger (/. c.) records L. astrarche, v. allom, Hiibn., from various parts 

 of Amurland, and says that this has nothing to do with his Z. mandschurica, 

 wdiich he received in some numbers from Herz, who found them from the 

 middle of June to the end of July at Taschiao-sy to the north of Pekin, and 

 which is quite a distinct species from L. astrarche. Mandschurica, he says, 

 agrees on the upper surface with astrarche, but in one small male specimen 

 the red band is evanescent. All the specimens, however, differ from astrarche, 

 in any of its forms, in having the fringe equally chequered with white and 

 brownish black. The light grey under surface, which is sometimes slightly 

 tinged w^ith brown, separates this species from astrarche. The black ocelloid 



