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NYMPHALID^. 
One male, Wa-shan, and one female, Wa-ssu-kow. 
A. aglaia is generally distributed throughout Western China, North- 
west and Central Japan, Corea, Amurland, and Europe. In the North-west 
Himalayas it is represented by A. vitatha, Moore, which Mr. de NiceviUe 
considers to be " at best but a very slight variety of A. aglaia." 
Argynnis adippe. (Plate XXll. figs. 3, 4, 5, vars.) 
Papilio adippe, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. xii. p. 786 (1767); Hiibner, Eur, Schmett. i. 
figs. 63, 64 (1793-1794). 
Argynnis adippe, Godart, Enc. Mdth. ix. p. 265 (1819) ; Lang, Butt, Eur. p, 212, pi. li. 
fig. 1 (1884) ; Pryer, Rhop. Nihon. p. 28, pi. vii. figs. 1, 2 (1889). 
Argynnis vorax, Butler, Trans, Ent. Soc, Lond, 1871, p, 403 ; Lep, Exot. p. 151, pi. liv. 
fig, 1 (1873), 
Argynnis pallescens, Butler, Cist, Ent. i. p. 164 (1873). 
Argynnis locuples, Butler, Ann, & Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) vii, p. 1-34 (1879). 
" Expands from 1-90 to 2*20 inches. The male closely resembles that of the last [-4, niohe], but the 
black lines along the nervures of the fore wings are thicker. The female is brighter fulvous, 
and the dark markings are not so intense as in ^. niobe, neither is there the black shading 
towards the base of the wings found in that species. Underside : fore wings brighter fulvous 
than in A. niohe, with distinct silvery markings near the apex. Hind wings light yellow, 
with a fulvous tinge ; spots well defined and silvery ; between the hind marginal and central 
rows is a series of reddish spots with silvery centres ; the inner margin is greenish, with 
silvery gloss," (Lancf, h c.) 
Larva. " lieddish brown, with a whitish dorsal stripe, and a black spot on either side of this on 
every segment ; the spines light brown. Feeds on Viola tricolor and V. odorata in May 
and June." {Lang, I.e.) 
The early stages of A. adippe are described at some length in Buckler's 
' Larvae of British Butterflies,' i. pp. 65-71. 
"Var. vorax, I5utler, (Plate XXTI. fig, 5, cJ .) " Affinis A. adippe, differt alis anticis costa 
mulfo longioro, margino externo magis arcuate, posticis margine interne longiore, omnibus 
sii])ra maculis siibmnrginalibus fulvis angustioribus ; snbtus charactcribus discoidcis minus 
conspicuis ; aiitica) maculis discalibus majoribus ; posiica) pallidiorcs, area basali viridioro ; 
maculis argcntcis vix nigro marginatis ; scrio ocollorum minus angulata ; lunulis submar- 
ginnlibuH viridibus. Exp. alar. unc. lin. 2. 
"Nearly allied to A. adippe, but more like A paphin in form." {Buder, I.e.) 
Tliis form, the typo of wliicli was taken at Shangliai, occurs at Kiukiang 
and Cliang-yang, Central Cliina ; but I have not received it from any of the 
western localities. 
