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Dr, Lang states that the larva is pale greeu, with darker dorsal and lateral streaks, and light 

 brown and white spots. It feeds on trefoil and other Leguminoscc. 



Lyccena Jiellotia, Menetries. — " D'aprcs un individu de 14 lignes d'envergure. 



" En dessns, il est d'uu bran trcs fonce, presentant a la base un reflet bleu ; sur I'angle anal des 

 seeondes ailes, un point noir surmontc d'un croissant fauve. 



"En dessous, il est d"un blanc brillant, un pen bleiiatre; les ailes superieurcs n'ont pas de traits 

 ou points a leur base, et le trait discoidal tres peu visible ; puis, derriere celui-ci une ligne 

 de six traits noirs forts marques, et prea du bord externe on ne remarque que la trace de 

 deux ou trois traits bruns, marques de fauve exterieurement, et places prcs de Tangle interne. 

 Les ailes iuferieurcs presentent deux points noirs places plus pies de la base que du disque, 

 mais on n'apper^oit aucune trace de croissant discoidal : puis au-deh\ une range'e transversale 

 de points tres noirs, disposes en c/5, dont deux pres de Tangle externe, quatre autour du disque 

 et trois, plus bas, pres do Tangle anal ; enfin sur le bord externe, et vers Tangle interne, sent 

 deux points noirs, surmontes chacun d'uue tache fauve, limitee superieuremeut par un trait 

 noir tres etroit, et plus exterieurement, toujours sur le bord marginal, deux faibles traces de 

 fauve." (Menetries, I. c.) 



The above description refers to a specimen taken by M. Goschkevitsch in 

 Japan, and is apparently a worn female of JS. argiades bereft of tails. 



Pryer says that the species occurs in Japan from March to October. 



I have received specimens from all the localities in China visited by my 

 collectors. The small var. polysperchon, Bergstrasser, is of common occur- 

 rence, but I have not seen the var. coretas, Ochsenheimer, from any eastern 

 locality. Some male specimens taken by myself in Japan have red lunules 

 on upper surface of secondaries as in the females. Nagasaki specimens 

 attain a wing-expansion of 1^ inch. It is also common in Amurland and 

 Corea. 



Everes argiades is very widely distributed. It occurs in North America, 

 South and Central Europe, almost throughout Asia, and has been found in 

 Australia. 



Everes arcana. (Plate xxxi. fig. 1, $ .) 



Lycana arcana, Leech, Entomologist, xxiii. p. 43 (1890). 



Male. Brown : secondaries with a slender short black tail fringed with white ; discoidal spot of 

 primaries black ; discal area suffused with pale blue, as also is the basal area of secondaries, 

 which is further adorned with a submarginal row of black spots, the last two bordered 

 internall)- with orange, and externally with whitish. Under surface pale grey ; discoidal 

 spot, central, and submarginal lines of primaries dark grey, bordered with white. The 

 secondaries have three black basal spots ; discoidal spot and central line dark grey, bordered 

 with white ; the line is much interrupted, especially towards the costa, and is represented on 

 the costa itself by a black spot outlined with white ; submarginal line wavy dark grey, and 



