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took speciminis at Fusan, S.E. Coii-a, and at Nagasaki, Japan. In the 
Nagasaki specimens tlie bands and spots are narrower and smaller. L. hel- 
manni is common in Central Cliina, and extends into Nortliern and Western 
China. Erschoff, according to Standinger, records this species from East 
Siberia. 
Distribution. East Siberia, Altai, Aniurland, Japan, Corea, China. 
Limenitis sibylla. 
Papilio sibilla, Liuu. Syst. Nat. i. 2, p. 781 (1767); Esp. Schinett. i. 1, pi. 14. fig. 2 
(1777); Hiibn. Eur. Schmett. i. figs. 103-10,5 (1794?). 
Limenitis sibylla, Lang, Butt. Eur. p. 162, pi. xxxviii. fig. 1 (1881) ; Prycr, Rliop. 
Nihon. p. 23, pi. 5. fig. 15 (1888). 
Limenitis sibilla, var. angttstata, Staud. Rom. sur Lep. iii. p. 144 (1887). 
" Expands from 2-0 to 2-25 inches. All the wings brownish black ; the margins slightly dentate, 
and the fringes black and white. Fore wings with a very indistinct light brown discoidal spot ; 
the remaining spots have much the same arrangement as in Camilla, but show a greater 
tendency to form a baud ; there is no marginal row of purple dots, but there are some faint 
black ones. The hind wings much resemble those of Camilla, but the white band is concave 
on its outer edge for about two thirds of its length, whilst in Camilla it is straight. Under- 
side brown, with a yellowish or fulvous tinge instead of the red colour found in Camilla. The 
fore wings have a greenish-grey discoidal spot. The hind wings have a double row of black 
spots running parallel to the hind margin ; the base of the wings is greenish, with a pearly 
lustre and some black spots. Head, thorax, and abdomen brownish black above, greenish 
white beneath. AntenniB black above, with the extreme tips light brown, beneath thev are 
fulvous." {Lang, I. c.) 
Larva. Head pinkish brown, darker laterally. Body almost cylindrical, but with the intersegmental 
spaces strongly marked ; the dorsal surface is rough and tuberculated, with small branched 
spines ; the colour on the back is dark green, the sides being paler, and the tubercles yellow. 
The spiracles are white, and below them is a narrow white lateral stripe. The spines are 
pink at the tip and brown at the base; their bristles are black." (Ahridrjed from Newman'e 
' British Butterflies' ) 
According to Lang, the pupa is brown, with the wing-cases green ; the 
head and ventral surface are decorated with metallic spots. 
A more complete life-history of this species is given bv Buckler in ' Larvse 
of British Buttei-flies.' 
The Araurlaud form of this species, to which Dr. Staudinger has given the 
varietal name angmtata, has the central Avhite bands somewhat naiTower 
tliau in the type. 
Pryer states that L. sibylla occurs in Japan from June to August, and varies 
