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ceded by a whitish band and followed by three ochreous-grey wavy lines. Fringes white, 
chequered with brown at the tips of nervules. 
Menetries's figure represents a female specimen. It has the ocellus on 
upper surface of primaries narrowly ringed with white, the oblique white 
streaks are broad, and the lower one is divided by the second median nervule ; 
the secondaries have three subanal ocelli, and obscure pale brown central and 
submargiual lines. Under surface of primaries paler, with a twice interrupted 
broad white band beyond the middle of the wing, ocellus as above ; second- 
aries have a series of six ocelli preceded by a broad white band and followed 
by three wavy pale brown lines. Fringes white, marked with brown at the 
extremities of the nervules. 
Var. erebina. "Nearly allied to P. deidamia (Menetriesii, Erem.), but readily distinguished as 
follows : — Primaries more produced, the subapical ocellus four times as large, surrounded by 
a i}ale zone in the male and a white one in the female ; below this ocellus upon the disc are 
two small spots placed obliquely, those of the male a little paler than the ground-colour, but 
those of the female white and representing the lower half of the zigzag white band in the 
female of P. deidamia; on tlie under surface the sexes do not differ from each other to any- 
thing like the extent that they do in P. deidamia ; they approach most nearly to the male of 
that species in pattern, but differ in having a white submarginal stripe in the male and two 
iu the female, also in the larger white-zoned ocellus on the primaries. Expanse of wings, 
S 5G millim., $ 54 millim.— ^ $ . S.E. Corca, October." (Butler, I. c.) 
Female specimens from Oiwake, Japan (Plate XII. fig. 5), agree fairly well 
on tlie upper surface with Menetries's figure, but the iris of ocellus on pri- 
maries is fainter and dull ochreous, and there are only two ocelli on second- 
aries. On the under surface the subapical ocellus has a lobe from its upper 
or lower edge, sometimes both, and the ms is pale yellowish ; the lower third 
of the white band of primaries is represented by a minute streak, and that of 
the secondaries is indicated by a white spot on the costa, another at end of 
cell, and an obscure pale line from thence to inner margin. The males from 
the same locality are very similar to the females on the under surface, but 
are almost identical with males from the Amur on the upper surfiice. 
Examples from Chang-yang, Central China, are smaller than either Amur 
or Japanese specimens, and the apex and outer margin of primaries of the 
male are more rounded. The female has a larger ocellus,' the iris is rather 
broad and yellowish, the oblique streaks are also yellowish but narrow. 
This variable species occurs in Amurland, Corea, Northern, Central, and 
Western China, extending into Thibet. In Central Japan it seems to be 
