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and bears a white spot as above ; secondaries rather greener than in the male, and the 
whole surface is glossed with lilacine. 
Expanse, cJ 73-82 millim., J S-J—iiU miJlim. 
Among the very large number of A. anadyomene I received from Cliang- 
yang are three aberrations which, as this species is usually so constant in 
pattern, it may be well to refer to. In two of these specimens, both males, 
one of which is figured, the black spots forming the central series on primaries 
are veiy large, the upper three confluent and the lower three only separated 
from each other by the nervules ; each spot of the 2nd series is united with its 
fellow of the ord series, those of the marginal series are dilated inwards, and in 
one example all the spots at inner angle are confluent, forming an iiTegular 
blotch. On the secondaries the central series of spots forms a broad band 
interrupted by the nervules ; the spots of 2nd and ord series are confluent 
as on primaries and the upper three spots of marginal series project inwards 
along the nervules almost to the middle of the wing, whilst the lower three 
are diamond-shaped. A third specimen, a female, is dingy pale fulvous, 
tinged with greenish, Avith black markings as in the type : on the secondaries 
the upper two spots are absent ; those of second and thu'd series are united 
in pairs, forming a transverse row of longitudinal bars, the third bar united 
with the discoidal spot and the fourth and fifth contracted in the middl(j. 
In two females the secondaries have a large greenish-white irregular shaped 
patch on the central area, but this is larger on the right wing than on the 
left. 
Common throughout Northern China, Japan, Corea, and occurs also in 
Amuiland, where it is scarce. 
Argynnis sagana. 
Argynnis sagana, Doubl. Hew. Gen. Diurn. Lep. pi. xxiv. fig. 1 (1847) ; Lang, Butt. 
Eur. p. 222 (1884) ; Pryer, Rhop. Xihon. p. 28, pi. viii. fig. 3, ^ (1889). 
$ . Damora paulina, Nordmann, Bull. Mosc. 1851, ii. p. 410, pi. xi. figs. 1, 2. 
" Male expands from 2-25 to 2-50 inches. Greatlj- resembles paphia above, but is somewhat larger 
and lighter : hind wings with only one black band between the base and the central row of 
spots. The bases are not dusk}-. Tuderside almost as in laodice, but the fore wings are tipped 
with purplish brown. The basal half of the hind wings is light brown, without the yellow 
tinge seen in laodice : the outer half is very much as in that species, only it has faint silvery 
markings as in j^ajj/fiVr. 
'■'Female expands from 2-25 to 2-75 inches. Dull greenish grey ; fore wings spotted. with black, 
with two large central white spots, and a short band of similar ones on the costa ; there is a 
