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Limenitis sydyi. (Plate XVII. fig. 4, d .) 
Limenitis sydiji, Leclerer, Veih. zool.-bot. Gcs. Wien, 1853^ p. 357, pi. i. fig. 3; Lang, 
Butt. Eur. p. 21G (1881). 
? Limenitis sidii, var. japonica, Menetries, Cat. Mus. Petr. pt. 2, p. 103 (1857). 
Limenitis sydyi, var. latefasciatn, Menetries, Schrenck's Reisen, ii. p. 29; Fixsen, Rom. 
sur Lep. iii. p. 293 (1887). 
"Expands 1-75 inch. All the wings dark brown. Fore wings with a band of white spots running 
outwards from the centre of the costa ; in the centre of tlie inner margin is a large white 
spot, and near the apex three small ones. All the white markings, have a violet gloss. 
Underside: very like that of L. sihi/IJa, but duller; central band of hind wings narrower and 
more oblique; there is only a single row of black dots ; the hind margin is rather broadly 
greenish white, with a broad brown line. Habitat : the Altai." (Lang, 1. c.) 
Var. latefasciata, Menetries. " Le male presente do part ot d'autre la bandc blanche qui traverse 
les qutitro ailes bcaucoup plus large, a taches plus contigues, et d'un blanc a reflets d'uu 
violet rose. La femelle presente cgalement cettc bande blanche transversale, large, mais pas 
autant que chez le male, les taches sent aussi moins contigues, et les reflets tres peu 
apparents ; puis, a la base dcs ailes supericures et pres du bord anterieur, on remarque une 
tache blanche oblique, et un petit point blanc plus interne, horde's do noir, qui ue sont que la 
reproduction d'une partie des taches du dessous ; de plus, aux ailes inferieures, non loin des 
bords posterieur et exterieur, on voit une rangee de six larges traits d'un beau blanc, les- 
quels sont faiblement indiqucs chez la femelle de la sydt/i ; il y a bieu aussi, sur Tangle anal, 
une tache couleur marron, peu apparente, dont on reconnait la trace chez I'espece type. Le 
reste est parfaitement semblable." (Menetries, in Schrenclc's Reisen.) 
Chinese specimens of L. sij<hji vary in colour ; some males are deep purple-black, with the white 
markings tinged with bluish ; others are fuliginous brown, with pure white markings. The 
secondaries have a submarginal series of white spots, and the primaries a narrow and ill- 
defined pale submarginal band. 
The female is fuliginous : primaries have a short longitudinal white streak in the discoidal cell 
separated from an elongate white spot by a ferruginous transverse streak ; the discal white 
markings are similar to those of the male, hut all the wings have a submarginal white band, 
interrupted by the ncrvules, that on primaries not well defined towards costa, where it is 
preceded by a rather diff'use ferruginous band. 
Some male examples have the discoidal markings as in the female, but they are never so clearly 
defined. 
Expanse, <3 6-1-70 millira., 5 7o-78 millira. 
Occurs at Chang-yang and Kiukiang in Central China, and throughout 
Western China as far as Moupin. Fixsen records specimens, which he refers 
to var. latefasciata, from Corea ; but so far as I know this form does not 
occur in China. 
De rOrza and Menetries both record L. sydyi from Japan ; but as this species 
has not subsequently been found in that country, I am inclined to believe 
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