LIMENITIS. 181 
Limenitis sydyi. (Plato XVIl. fij,'. 4, s .) 
Limenitis sydij'i, Lcdcrcr, \'oili. /.ool.-bot. (Jcs. Wicii, 1853, p. 357, pi. i. fig. 3; Lang, 
Eiitt. Eur. p. 210 (1881). 
? Limenitis sidii, yar.jtqwnira, ]\Iciictri(.'s, Cat. Mus. Pctr. pt. 2, p. 103 (1857). 
Limenitis sijdi/i, var. latcfascialn, Mcnetric's, Sclirctick's Rcisen, ii. p. 29 ; Fixsen, Rom. 
sur Lcp. iii. p. 29;} (1887). 
" Expands 1-75 inch. All the wings dark brown. Fore wings with a band of white spots running 
outwards from the centre of the costa ; in (he centre of the inner margin is a largo white 
spot, and near the apex three small ones. All the white markings have a violet gloss. 
Underside : very like that of A. silii/Ua, but duller; central band of hind wings narrower and 
more oblique ; there is only a single row of black dots ; the liind margin is rather broadly 
greenish wliite, with a broad brown line. Habitat : the .Vltai." (Latiij, I. c.) 
Var. latefasciata, Menetries. " Le male prescnte do part et d'autre la bande blanche qui traverse 
les (piiitro ailes beaucoup plus large, ii tachcs plus contigues, et d'un blano a reflets d'un 
violet rose. La femclle presente cgalement cetto bande blanche transvcrsale, large, mais pas 
autant que chez le male, les taches sent aussi moins contigues, et les reflets trus peu 
apparents ; puis, a la base des ailes superieures et pres du bord antcrieur, on remarque une 
tache blanche oblique, et un petit point blauc plus interne, hordes de noir, qui ne sent que la 
reproduction d'une partie des taches du dessous ; de plus, aux ailes inferieures, non loin des 
bords posterieur et exterieur, on voit nnc rangce de sis larges traits d'un beau blanc, les- 
quels sont faiblemeut indiques chez la femelle do la si/di/i ; il y a bien aussi, sur Tangle anal, 
une tache couleur marron, peu apparente, dont on reconnait la trace chez I'espece type. Le 
reste e.st parfaitement semblable." {Menitries, in Schrenclc^s Seisen.) 
Chinese specimens of L. sijdiji vary in colour ; some males are deep purple-black, with tho white 
markings tinged with bluish ; others are fuliginous brown, with pure white markings. The 
secondaries have a submarginal series of white spots, and the primaries a narrow and ill- 
defined pale submarginal band. 
Tlie/emn/tf is fuliginous ; primaries have a short longitudinal white streak in the discoidal cell 
separated from an elongate white spot by a ferruginous transverse streak ; the discal white 
markings are similar to those of the male, but all the wings have a submarginal white band, 
interrupted by the nervules, that on primaries not well defined towards costa, where it is 
preceded by a rather diff"use ferruginous band. 
Some male examples have the discoidal markings as in the female, but they are never so clearly 
defined. 
Expanse, d "4-70 miUim., 2 75-7S millim. 
Occm-s at Chang-yang and Kiukiaiig in Central China, and throughout 
Western China as far as Moupiu. Fixsen records specimens, which he refers 
to var. latefasciata, from Corca ; but so far as I know this form does not 
occur in China. 
De rOrza and Menetries both record L. sydyi fi'om Japan ; but as this species 
has not svibsequcntly been found in that country, I am inclined to believe 
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