ADOP^A. 



691 



Adopaea sylvatica. (Plate XL. figs. 5 , 8, var. $ .) 



Pamphila sylvatica, Bremer, Bull. Acad. Pctr. iii. p. 474 (1861); Lep. Ost-Sib. p. SI, 

 pi. iii. fig. 10 (1861). 



" Alac supra ochraccte late fiisco-marginatfr, ncrvis fuscis ; anticse macula media fusca. 

 " Alie subtus ochracc;e nervis fuscis, ad basim fiiscescentes ; anticae macula obsoleta apud 

 augulum interiorom fuscesceuti. 2G m." {Bremer, 1. c.) 



I met with this species at Gensan, Corea, in June, and at Hakodate, Japan, 

 in August. Staudinger (Rom. sur Lep. vi. p. 210) states that Japanese 

 examples do not differ from those from Corea. 



The female only differs from the male in being larger. 



The form of A. sijhatica occurring in AVestern China is so uniformly 

 different that I describe it as 



Tar. OCCidentalis, var. nov. (Plate XL. tig. 8 5 .) Male agrees in coloration with typical 



A. sijlvatica, but the wings are more suffused with darker scales. 

 Female. Ground-colour almost black, the pale fulvous markings being much reduced in size, and 



the central series of primaiies is much straighter towards inner margin ; the under surface is 



more suffused, especially the secondaries, which have indications of a central series of pale 



spots. 



This form occurs at Ta-chien-lu and Chia-kou-ho, 



Adopaea tenebrosa, sp. nov. (Plate XL. figs. 6 , 9 $ .) 



2Iale. Upper surface hrownish black, with a purplish reflection in certain lights. Primaries are 

 streaked oblicjuely on the costa with pale fulvous ; there are three linear fulvous spots and 

 one round one, forming an outwardly oblique series from the costa, and five larger pale 

 fulvous spots and dashes, forming an inwardly oblique series to inner margin ; two contiguous 

 pale fulvous bars at end of discoidal cell. Secondaries clothed with olivaceous hairs on basal 

 area ; central area traversed by a series of pale fulvous elongated spots. Under surface deep 

 fulvous ; neuration of all the wings strongly marked with black ; there is a black cloud 

 towards outer angle of primaries, and the basal area is also suffused with black ; the dis- 

 coidal cell is closed by a black bar, and there is a black oblique streak above it running in the 

 direction of the apex of the wing : secondaries slightly suffused with greenish-grey scales, 

 especially along the abdominal fold ; in some specimens there are indications of the pale 

 fulvous central spots of upper surface. 



Female. Similar to the male, but rather dai'ker on the under surface. 



I Avas disposed to consider this species to be a form of A. sylvatica, but it 

 can readily be separated by the purplish reflection of the ground-colour, by 

 the neuration on under surface being more broadly black, and by the black 

 oblique streak from upper angle of the discoidal cell ; the fulvous markings 

 are also much paler. 



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