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Fairly common at Chaiig-yang in Central China, and in the province of 
Kwei-chow in Western China. It is not rare in Japan at Hakodate in 
August, and I have taken it at Nikko in September. Pryer gives Yokohama 
also as a locality. It occurs in Amurland, Askold, and probably in Corea. 
Argynnis paphia. (Plate XXIII. fig. 2, var.) 
Papilio paphia, Liiiu. Faun. Suec. p. 281 (1764) ; Hiibner, Eur. Schmett. i. figs. G9, 70 
(1793-1794), figs. 935, 936 (1829-1841). 
Aryynnix paphia, Godart, Enc. Metli. ix. p. 268 (1819) ; Lang, Butt. Eur. p. 214, 
pi. lii. fig. 1 (1881); Pryer, llhop. Nihon. p. 29, pi. viii. fig. 4 (1889). 
Argynnis paphioidcs, Eutl. Auu. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) vii. p. 134 (1881). 
Var, Papilio valesina, Esper, Sclimett. i. pt. 2, pi. 107. figs. 1, 2 (1800 ?). 
Papilio paphia, Hiibn. Eur. Sclimett. i. figs. 767, 768 (1824-1828). 
" Expands from 2-25 to 2-75 inches. The male has all the wings bright fulvous, spotted with 
black ; bases blackish ; fore wings with thick black lines running along the nervures ; hind 
wings with the spots large and distinct. 
" The female is much duller fulvous, the fore wings have their hind margins distinctly concave 
and the nervures are not marked with black lines. Uudeiside : fore wings fulvous, spotted 
with black, greenish at the apex. Hiiid wings shining green, with two short silver streaks 
near the base, and another extending right across the centre of the wing ; the hind margin 
has a silver streak throughout its entire length. The silvery markings are much more distinct 
in the female than in the male." {Lang, I. c.) 
Var. valesina, Esper. A form of the female in which the ground-colour of all the wings is dark 
greenish, the primaries have some pale spots towards apex and the usual black markings on 
all the wings. 
Var. paphioides, Butler. " Xear to A. jiaphia of Europe, but considerably larger, the primaries 
more produced, the female always greenish above (but not so dark as the variety valesina), 
under surface with the silver bands and border of secondaries much more metallic. Expanse 
of wings, <S 3 inches, 2 3 inches 4 lines." [Builcr, I. c.) 
" Zari'ffl dark brown, with two narrow light yellow dorsal stripes, and lateral reddish-yellow 
lines ; spines dark brown, the two nearest the head being longest. Feeds on Viola canina 
from the end of May to the middle of Juuo. 
' The pupa is very beautifully decorated with shiny metallic golden-green spots." {Lang, Lc.) 
Except that the specimens are generally larger and the female always 
darker, there is no important difference between the Japanese form [paijhioides, 
Butler) and typical European specimens. 
So far as I am aware the var. valesina does not occur in Japan, but in 
China this variety of the female seems to be the dominant form. The typical 
form of the female also occurs in China, together with intergrades betAveen 
