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NYMPHALID^. 
Common and widely distributed in Western China. It occurs in the 
months of June, July, and August, and is found at various elevations up to 
10,000 feet. 
Pararge achine. 
Papilio achine, Scopoli, Ent. Carn. p. 156 (1763) ; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett. i. figs, 170, 
171. 
Papilio dejanira, Linnaeus, Mus. Ulr. (1764). 
Pararge achine, Lang, Butt. Europe, p. 295, pi. Ixxiii. fig. 4 (1884) ; Pryer, Rhop. 
Nihon. p. 31, pi. ix. fig. 6. 
Pararge achinoides, Butler, Cistula Entom. ii. p. 283 (1878). 
P. achinoides. — " Extremely close to P. acJiine of Europe, but the ocelli of the primaries of nearly 
equal size throughout, and the pale streak beyond the cell more strongly defined : secondaries 
with the ocelli larger, an additional indistinct one near anal angle ; a pale streak across the 
median branches behind the ocelli : wings below with all the ocelli decidedly larger and white 
pupilled, the white streak of secondaries becoming obsolete towards the front of the disc, and 
therefore not enclosing the ocelli. Expanse of wings 2 inches 3 lines. 
" The wings are of the brown colour common to Lethe sicelis." {Butler, I. c.) 
Japanese specimens of P. achine { = achinoides, Butl.) do not exhibit any 
material difference from Amur examples of the species. 
Occurs in Central and Northern Japan, and at Gensan in the Corea. 
Pryer says " the species is abundant at Nikko in June and July ; Yesso 
specimens are generally larger and lighter coloured." Throughout Central 
Europe, Scandinavia, South Russia, the Altai, and the Amiu'. M. Oberthiir 
records it from the Isle of Askold (Etud. d'Entom. v. p. 17). 
Larva, " Pubescent green, with three darker dorsal lines, two double lateral and a stigmatal line ; 
the head and thoracic legs yellowish ; the posterior legs and the caudal points green. Feeds 
on Lolium perene, and is full-grown in May. PI. Ixxvi. fig. G." {Lang, I. e.) 
Pararge catena. (Plate XI. fig. 9, c? .) 
Pararge catena, Leech, Entomologist, xxiii. p. 30 (1890). 
Male. Brown suffused with fuliginous. Primaries traversed by an angulated indistinct dark line 
])orderod externally with paler, most clearly towards costa ; a submargiiial scries of six black 
spots set in ochrcous rings, tlio first of which is very small and the last two larger than the 
others ; marginal line pale. Secondaries with a pale angulated central band and a sub- 
marginal series of six ochrcous ringed black spots, the third very small and the sixth ocjual 
in size to the fourtli and fifth, but ill-d(!fined ; a palo line parallel with outer margin ; fringe 
pale ochrcous, chequered with })ro\vn at the ends of nervules. Under surface of primaries 
groy-brown ; a pale ochrcous bar, edged with brown, crosses the discoidal cell, and is preceded 
