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NYMPHALIDJE. 
Female. Ground-colour paler than in the male, suffused with greenish-black ; the spots of ground- 
colour in the outer marginal border are linear towards the inner angle of primaries and anal 
angle of secondaries. Under surface more distinctly greenish on basal half of secondaries ; 
the silver spots are generally well developed and the ocelli are centred with silver, bat 
sometimes, as in the example of this sex figured, the silver spots, with the exception of 
those of ocelli, are absent. 
Expanse, c? 72-75 millim., $ 74-82 millim. 
This form is fairly constant on the upper surface, but some male specimens 
have the basal half of secondaries black. There is a specimen of each sex 
in the National Museum at South Kensington from Wei-hai-wei, Shantung 
promontory, China. These Avere captured in June, as also were my specimens, 
all of which are from Gensan, in the Corea. 
A. adippe is a most variable species, and a number of the forms have been 
named. 
Dr. Fixsen (Rom. sur L6p. iii. p. 306) records A. adippe from Corea, and 
states that the species is exceedingly variable. He describes a form as 
xanthodip2)e, comparing it with vorax, Butler. 
Distribution. Japan, China, Corea, Amur, Altai, Europe, and Asia Minor. 
Argynnis ornatissima, sp. nov. (Plate XXII. figs. 1 c? , 2 ?.) 
Allied to A. adi.2>pe, but the colour is much more brilliant ; androconia, in the male, stronger than 
in adi_[)pc, and commencing nearer the origin of the nervules ; the central black transverse 
band, which in adippe is macular and much angulatcd, is in this species almost uniform in 
width throughout, the upper part is curved and the lower portion arcuated ; the discoidal 
mark on secondaries is well defined and conspicuous. Fringes heavily chequered with black. 
The female is strongly tinged with metallic green on the basal area of all the wings ; there 
is a longitudinal black dash in the submedian interspace. 
The under surface cannot be satisfactorily compared with any of the forms of A. adippe with 
which I am acquainted, but it agrees in some respects with Spanish specimens in my col- 
lection. The secondaries are brilliant green ; the costa at base and the abdominal fold are 
bright silver ; tlio usual silver spots arc very brilliant, and all the larger ones are bordered 
with bla(;k. 
Expanse, c? 72 millim., J 7^ millim. 
Three spocimons taken in tlie nciglibourliood of Ta-chicn-lu in July at an 
elevation of 10,000 feet. 
Argynnis nerippe. (Plate XXII. figs. 7 c? , 8 $ .) 
Argynnis nerippe, Fcldcr, Wicn. cut. Mon. vi. ]). 2l' (]H()2) ; Itcise Nov., Lep. iii. pi. 1. 
figs. 1, 2 (1H07) ; Prycr, llhop. Nilioii. p. 28, pi. viii. figs. I a, \ b (1889). 
Argynnis coreuna, Hutlcr, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) ix. p. 15 (1882). 
