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that these authors must have wrongly identified their insects. Menetries' 
description of L. sidii, yai\ jap otiica*, agrees very well with. Japanese speci- 
mens of L. sihylla. 
JDhtribution. Altai, Amur, Corea, Western and Central China. 
Limenitis amphyssa. 
Limenitis amphyssa, Menetries^ Bull. Acad. Petr. xvii. p. 215 ; Schrenck's Reisen, ii. 
p. 30, pi. iii. fig. 1 (1859) ; Lang, Butt. Eur. p. 316 (1884). 
*' Alia subdentatis fuscis, subtus ferrugiiieis, utrinque fascia posticarum obliqua ; maris anticaruin 
basi linea longitudinali interrupta, apice lata cuneata ; subtus posticarum basi cinereo- 
coerulescentibus." (Menetries, SchrencFs Eeisen.) 
*' Wings dark brown. Fore wings with three white spots near the apex, then six larger ones 
arranged in a cresceutic figure extending from the centre of the costa to the centre of the 
inner margin, and two more white spots near the basal end of the costa. Hind wings with 
a white central band like that in L. sibj/lla. Parallel to all the hind margins is a row of 
light spots. Underside fulvous, with markings similar to those above ; hind wing with some 
bluish-green basal spots." {Lang, I. c.) 
The female is larger, but does not exhibit any other appreciable difference from the male. 
Expanse, c? 62-68 millim., 5 80 millim. 
I have one example of each sex from Cliang-yang in Central China, and 
one male from Gensan in Corea taken in July. These three specimens differ 
from Amurland examples in my collection in the absence of the white mark 
at the base of the discoidal cell on the upper surface of primaries. 
Dr. Fixsen records a specimen of L. amphyssa from Corea, and remarks 
that it does not differ from Amurland examples. 
Distribution. Amur, Corea, and Central China. 
Limenitis homeyeri. (Plate XVIT. fig. (J, var.) 
Limenitis homeyeri, Tancre, lint. Nachr. vii. p. 120 (1881) ; Staudiuger, Iloin. sur Lep. 
iii. p. I l l, pi. vii. figs. 2 a, h (1887). 
* Var. japonica, Menetries. " Les ailes supericurca ne prcsentent, dcs deux cotes vers leur 
sommet, quo deux jwints blancs au lieu de taches allongees ; puis, vers lo milieu du bord 
externe, une tachc blanche qui se retrouve on dessous ; enfin aux ailes inferieures on no voit 
aucune trace de la ligne blanchatrc submarginalc (pii orne rosjA'ce de I'Altai. 
*' En dessous, au lieu dcs doux lignos marginales lylanches qui, chez la liidii, longent lout le hord 
externe dcs quatre ailes, on no romanjue, vers le milieu de ce bord, (jue trois taches blanches 
alignt'es, qui simulent une partio do la ligne la plus externe, ot la seconde ligno marginalo ou 
interne est rcpn'seiitee aux ailes aupc'rieiires par une plus grande tache, la memc (pie rejmrait 
en dessus, et uux inf('rieures par deux taches alignees ; cos taches soiit paralleles a ceiles do 
l/i ligne la plus externe. i)u Japon par M. Goschkovitsch." {Meiu-irieH, Cat. Mus. I'rlr.) 
