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suggests for this form the varietal name chinensis. I have specimens from 

 Corea and Amurland in wliich the band is distinctly indicated. Possibly it 

 may ultimately be proved that sinica is an extreme form of tcthys, but so far 

 the evidence docs not justify their being united. 



In Fryer's collection there is an extraordinary aberration, in which all the 

 spots on primaries are united, forming an irregular V-shaped patch, interrupted 

 by the nervures, and a bar at the extremity of the cell. The species is common 

 throughout Japan. 



Graeser (Berl. eut. Zeit. 1888, p. 101) states that in Amurland this species 

 occurs commonly in woods at Chabarof ka from the middle of May to the end 

 of June, and more rarely at Vladivostock. He met with larvae at the end of 

 August rolled up in oak and hazel leaves, and describes them as light green, 

 thickly covered with short reddish hairs ; head round and black ; the pupa, 

 which lives through the winter, is dusted with white. 



Distribution. Amurland, Japan, North China, Corea. 



Daimio sinica. 



Pterygospidca sinica, Felder, Wien. cnt. Mon. vi. p. 30 (1862) ; Alpheraky, Rom. 



sur Lep. v. p. 122, pi. v. figs. Q,a,b (1889). 

 Pterijgospidea moori, Mabille, Aim. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1876, p. clii. 

 Daimio felderi, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) vii. p. 140 (1881). 



" Alis fuscis, anticis maculis tribus discalibus punctisqiie qiiiuis subterminalilnis hyaliuo-albis, 

 I'asciola interna alba, posticis fascia subbasali alba, subtus macula snbcostali lituraque disco- 

 cellulari fusco uofata, ibidem maculis exterioribus obsoletis albidis. cS . 



" Unum specimen circa Xing-po captnm Eev. Dom. Mnirhtad nobis commisit. Minus est, quam 

 M. japetus, Cram., et nestus, Feld. In India septentrionali similis occurrit species.'' 

 {Felder, I. c.) 



Yar. moorei, Mabille. " Nigra, alis anticis ferentibus duas series jmnctorum, unam aj)icalcm 

 trium pnnctorum snbcostalium ot duorum inferius positorum obliquorumque ; alteram in 

 disco 5 in femina, quatuor in marc (costali iu hoc deficienti). Alis posticis unam fasciam 

 albam tran.sversam offorentibus, ad medium dilatatam in mare, punctis nigris inferius nota- 

 tam, 5 numcro, et in parte limbi nigra positis ita ut dimidio fere in fasciam albam procedant. 

 Fimbria alba, nigro semiinterrupta, subtus alis concoloribus aut potius luscis, punctis melius 

 scriptis ; e punctis fasciaj albae posticarum duo in fascia alba posita sunt ; basis earumdem 

 cinereo-ca:ruiea in mare, obscurior in femina, cum 3 punctis nigris ad augulum externum, 

 corpus et pedes cincrco colore; palpis subtus albidis, articulo ultimo nigro." (Mfbille, I.e.) 



Var. felderi, Butler. " Dark brown, with white markings : primaries exactly as in B. tethys ; 

 secondaries crossed by a white belt, which passes through a nearly complete circular series 

 of black spots ; anal three fourths of fringe and four marginal spots white ; posterior margins 



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