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extending half\^ ay across the secondaries ; there is a silvery L-shaped mark about the centre 
of the secondaries, and the abdominal margin of those wings is pale violet-grey ; in some 
specimens the lower two thirds of the central band is broadly bordered outwards with this 
colour. 
Expanse, cJ 56-65 millim., ? 62-72 miUim. 
Var. pryeri, Janson. (Plate XXV. fig. 4, c? )• " Allied to V. angelica, Cram., but smaller, and 
with the external dentations of the wings much stronger and more acute ; above bright 
fulvous red, the black spots smaller than in arKjelica, and clearly defined ; the apical 
margins rather broadly ochreous, speckled with brown and bordered inwardly with brown 
lunular marks ; beneath ochreous-brown or chocolate, suffused with pinkish towards the 
apex ; a central band and numerous fine irregular transverse lines on both wings, and 
several marks in the cell of the primaries similar to angelica, but darker and more clearly 
defined; the L-shaped silvery mark on the secondaries large and conspicuous. Expanse 
of wings 2-2 J inches." (^Janson, I. c.) 
The typical form (Fryer's fig. 7 h) of this species occurs throughout the 
summer, but the var. jpryeri (Fryer's fig. 7 a) is only found in the autumn or 
in the spring after hybernation. I have received the type from every part of 
China visited by my collectors, but the pryeri form was only obtained by them 
at Ichang, Central China, and in the Province of Kwei-chow, Western China. 
Some of the specimens of the typical form are much suffused mth black on 
the upper surface. 
Fryer states that the larva feeds on hemp {Cannahis sativa, Linn.) and wild 
hop {Humulus japonicus, S. & Z.). 
Occurs commonly at Gensan. I took it also at several places in Central 
Japan and Yesso. Generally distributed in Western and Central China. 
Alpheraky records a female specimen from Pi-Koua in North-west China 
(Rom. sur Lep. v. p. 113, 1889) and Staudinger (Rom. sur Lep. vi. p. 179) 
states that it occurs in Amurland. 
Genus ARASCHNIA. 
Araschnia, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 37 (1816) ; Doubleday, Gen. Diurn. Lep. i. 
p. 187 (1848). 
" Head densely clothed with long hairs ; a chestnut tuft of hairs outside the antennae. 
" Eyes oval, moderately prominent, hairy. 
" Maxilla slender, scarcely so long as the thorax. 
" Labial palpi porrect, slightly ascending, projecting considerably beyond the forehead, scaly, and 
densely clothed with long hairs in front and also behind, except towards the base ; the 
second joint without any dorsal tuft. First joint subcylindric, curved, about two thirds as 
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