212 NTMPHALlDiE. 
This is one of the most variable species of the genus Melitcea, and a large 
number of the forms have been named and described. It occurs throughout 
the greater part of the Palsearctic Region. 
MelitEea aurinia. 
Papilio aurinia, Rottcmburg, Naturf. vi. p. 5 (1775). 
Papilio artemis, Wien. Verz. p. 322 (1776) ; Hiibuer, Eur. Schmett. i. figs. 4-6 (1793), 
fig. 653 (1824). 
Argynnis artemis, Godart, Euc. Meth. ix. p. 285 (1819). 
Melitcea artemis, Herrich-Scliafier, Sclimett. Eur. i. figs. 364, 365 (1850). 
Melitaa aurinia, Lang, Butt. Eur. p. 183, pi. xliii. fig. 2 (1884). 
Melitaa aurinia, var. sibirica, Staudinger, Cat. 1861, p. 7, 1871, p. 17 = var. desfon- 
tainesii, Eversmaun, Lep. Ross. p. 92. 
"Expands from 1-30 to 2-16 inches. "Wings reddish fulvous, -with lightish yellow spots 
surrounded hy black. The hind margins of all the wings with a row of brownish lunulas, 
external to which is a very narrow black border. Underside glossy, much duller and less 
distinct than in Maiurna, the yellow spots on the fore wings being scarcely visible. The 
hind wings have a central light band and light basal spots ; along the hind margin is a row 
of light lunules, and between these and the central band a row of light spots enclosing black 
dots. 
" Larva. Black, with a lateral row of white dots ; the head as well as the spines black ; legs 
reddish. Pupa. Light yellow, spotted with black ; the wing-cases white." {Lang, I. c.) 
Further details of the early stages of this species will be found in Buckler's ' Larvse of the British 
Butterflies.' 
Food-plants Smbiosa and honeysuckle (Lonicera). 
Var. sibirica, staudinger, = desfoDtainesii, Eversmann (nee desfontaimi, Godart), is said to differ 
from the type in being paler in colour and having broader fulvous bands on the secondaries. 
Eversmann states that specimens of aurinia {artemis) from Eastern Siberia (his degfontuinesii) 
are usually very pale, and have very little black, and much more yellow in the markings, 
the fulvous band of secondaries occupying more than half of the wing. 
I found this species rather common at Gensan, Corea, in June. The 
specimens axe rather larger, paler, and more uniform in colour than those 
from Europe, and the apex of primaries is more produced. Three examples 
appear to be referable to var. sibirica. Stand. 
Dr. Fixsen records M. aurinia (artemis) from the Corea, and states that the 
specimens are intermediate between the European type and the Siberian 
form. This last he refers to as imllidissima, Elwes ; evidently an error on 
his part, as the term " pallidissima " was used by Staudinger in his catalogue 
to indicate the differential character of his var. sibirica, and is not the name 
