182 NTMPHALID^. 
that tlicse authors must have wrongly ideutified their insects. Menetries' 
description of L. sidii, vav. japonica*, agreos very well ^^'ith Japanese speci- 
mens of L. sihylJa. 
Distribution. Altai, Amur, Corea, Western and Central China. 
Limenitis amphyssa. 
LimenUis amphyssa, Menetries, Bull. Acad. Petr. xvii. p. 215 ; Schrenck's Reiseu, ii. 
p. 30, pi. iii. fig. 1 (1859) ; Lang, Butt. Eur. p. 216 (1884). 
'' Alis subdentatis fuscis, subtus ferrugineis, utrinque fascia postioarum obliqua ; maris anticaruiii 
basi linea longitudinali interrupta, apicc lata cuneata ; subtus posticarum basi cinereo- 
coerulescentibus." {Menetries, SchrencJc's Eeiseii.) 
" Wings dark brown. Fore wings with three white spots near the apex, then six larger ones 
arranged in a crescentio figure extending from the centre of the costa to the centre of the 
inner margin, and two more white spots near the basal end of the costa. Hind wings with 
a white central band like that in L. sihi/Ua. Parallel to all the hind margins is a row of 
light spots. Underside fulvous, with markings similar to those above ; hind wing with some 
bluish-green basal spots." {Lang, 1. c.) 
The female is larger, but does not exhibit any other appreciable difFei-cnoe from the male. 
Expanse, d' 62-68 millim., J 80 millim. 
I have one example of each sex from Chang-yang in Central China, and 
one male from Gensan in Corea taken in July. These three specimens differ 
from Amurland examples in my collection in the absence of the white mark 
at the base of the discoidal cell on the upper surface of primaries. 
Dr. Fixsen records a specimen of L. amphyssa from Corea, and remarks 
that it does not differ from Amurland examples. 
Distribution. Amur, Corea, and Central China. 
Limenitis homeyeri. (Plate xvil. fig. 6, var.) 
Limenitis homeyeri, Tancre, Ent. Nacbr. vii. p. 120 (1881) ; Staudiuger, Rom. sur Lep. 
iii. p. 144, pi. vii. figs. 2 a, b (1887). 
* Var. japOUlca, Menetries. " Les ailes superieures ne presentent, des deux cotes vers leur 
sommet, que deux points blancs au lieu de taches aUongees ; puis, vers le milieu du Lord 
externe, une tache blanche qui se retrouve en dessous : enfin aux ailes inferieures on ne voit 
aucune trace de la ligue blanchatre submarginale qui orue I'espeee de I'Altai'. 
■" En dessous, au lieu des deux lignes marginales blanches qui, chez la sidii, longent tout le bord 
externe des quatre ailes, on ne remarque, vers le milieu de ce bord, que trois taches blanches 
aUgnees, qui simulent une partie de la ligne la plus externe, et la seconde ligne marginale ou 
interne est representee aiLx ailes superieures par une plus grande tache, la meme que reparait 
en dessus, et aux inferieures par deux taches alignees ; ces taches sout paralleles a celles de 
la ligne la plus externe. Du Japou par M. Goschkevitsch." {Menetries, Cat. Mm. Petr.) 
