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Examples of the female from the Isle of Kiushiu have very large black spots. 
On the under surface the ground-colour of secondaries varies from fulvous 
yellow to pale green, the outer half, limited by an irregular macular silvery 
band, is sometimes greenish and sometimes purple-brown, but in all cases 
traversed by undulated lilacine bands which vary in width and intensity ; in 
some specimens the outer area of secondaries, whether greenish or purple- 
brown, is suffused with lilacine. The reddish or brownish central band on 
secondaries varies greatly in Avidth, and is sometimes composed of two lines 
which lie apart on the costa, but unite at their termination at submedian 
nervure ; there is a projection fi'om the outer line extending almost to the 
middle of the wing. 
The Western Chinese examples of A. laodice seem to approach very close 
to A. rudra. Moore *, which Mr. Elwes f considers to be a local race of 
A. laodice, and in this opinion I am inclined to concur. 
Amurlaud specimens are rather larger and brighter coloured than European, 
and appear to be intermediate between the type and the Japanese form 
japonica, Men. 
Distributed throughout Russia, Amurland, Japan, Corea, and China. M. 
OberthiirJ records it as common in the Isle of Askold, and states that 
examples from thence do not differ from South-Russian specimens. It has 
also been found in Germany. 
Argynnis ruslana. (Plate XXIII. figs. 3 c? , 4 ab. $ .) 
Argynnis ruslana, Motsclmlskyj Bull. Mosc. 1866, ii. p. 117; Pryer, Rhop. Nihoii. p. 29, 
pi. viii. fig. 6 (1889). 
Argynnis lysippe, Janson, Cist. Ent. ii. p. 154 (1877). 
" Statura Arr/. laodice sed minor, maculis distinc tior. 5 alis supra fulvis nigro maculatis, S antice 
immaciilatis, externe medioque fasciis violaceo-fuscis, margine iitrinque macula subalbida. 
Exp. al., $ 21 1., c? 20 1." (MotscJinlsly, I. c.) 
Arrjynms hjsippe, Janson. " Allied to ^. ZaofZ/ce, Pall., and ^. japonica, Menetr., but consider- 
ably larger, and vritb the primaries much more produced at the apex. Above it differs from 
japonica in being of a darker and slightly greenish tint, with the fringes dirty brown ; the 
primaries have the second and third transverse marks in the cell angular, closer together, and 
united at their lower ends, the black spots are larger, the second and fifth of the inner series 
* Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. i. p. 157 (1857). 
t Trans. Ent. Soc. Loud. 18S9, p. 561. 
+ Etud. d'Entom. v. p. 14 (1880). 
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