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white spot near the apex, and several along the hind margin. Hind wings with a central 
white band, outside which is a double row of black spots, and outside these a row of whit'3 
ones. Underside : fore wings green, black, and white ; hind wings green, with silvery 
markings." {Lang, I. c.) 
Common and widely distributed in China and throughout Japan and 
Corea. It also occurs in Amurland, Eastern Siberia, and the Isle of Askold. 
The sj)ecies is very constant in colour and markings, but varies somewhat in 
size. Some of the specimens from China attain a wing-expansion of 90 
millim. in the male and 100 millim. in the female. The Amurland specimens 
are rather smaller than those from places further south. 
Argynnis zenobia. (Plate XXIII. figs. 6 , 5 $ .) 
Arrjrjnnis zeaobla, Leech, Entomologist, xxiii. p. 188 (1890) ; Oberthiir, Etud. d'Entom. 
xvi. p. 7, pi. i. fig. 1, S (1892). 
Argynnis penelope, Staudinger, Iris zii Dresden, iv. p. 339 (1891). 
Male. Fulvous, with black markings as in A. cliildrmi, Gray, but the outer margin of secondaries 
is without the bluish tinge- of that species, and the sinuses are not nearly so deep. On the 
under surface of primaries there is not the least tinge of red of any shade ; the silvery lines 
at apex are sinuate and enclose three black spots, tlie upper one more distinct than tlie other 
two : on the secondaries there is more l)luc in the composition of the greenish ground-colour ; 
the basal and discal lines are very similar to these characters in A. cliildreni \ tlie central 
band is sinuous and interrupted at the end of the cell, where there is a large black dot • 
marginal and submarginal silvery lines are more indented, and towards costa the opposing 
angles of these lines meet and form rings : before tiie submarginal is a series of black spots, 
each witli a centre sliglitly paler than the ground-colour. 
Female. Rather paler tlian tlie male ; base of inner margin of all the M'ings suffused with 
greenish; there are some spots and a transverse line terminating in a large subipiadrate spot 
in cell of secondaries. 
Antenna) of tho male brown, club black with fulvous apex; of the female, as in same se.x of 
A. childreni. 
Expanse, S 8-t millim., $ 87 millim. 
In size and in tlie ground-colour of up]icr surface tliis species closely 
resembles my specimens of ^. ddldreni from N.W. India, but they are much 
smaller and paler than my examples of that species from N.W. China ; these 
last measure from 1)4 to I 10 millim. 
Several specimens of each sex were captured by my collectors at Ta-chicn-lu 
in July. M. Grum-Cirshimailo met with this species in North-western 
Tliibet. Staudinger received a few male specimens from the district north 
of r(!kin. Dorrics also o])taincd it in the Sutschan district of Amurland in 
.July ancl nieniions that it was very scarce. 
