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always to be relied on ; but coin])ariiii;- my Coreaii spcciincns witli the figure of 
M. profomcdirt, I find that tliey are larger and appear more briglitly coloured. 
I have one example from Fusan which is referable to the form described by 
Fixsen as argentata *. 
I only met with this species at Fusan, S.E. Corea, where I took it in 
June. My collectors found it common at Chang-yang, Central China. It 
also occurs in Eastern Siberia and the nciglibourhood of Pekin. 
In my paper on the " Ijcpidoptera of Jajian and Corea " (Proc. Zool. Soc. 
Lond. 1887, p. 422) 1 folhnwd Staudinger and Elwes in roi'cnmg jtrofomedia 
to 31. didynna, of wliicli it is probably a local race ; but as it does not agree 
in every respect with any specimen of M. dictynna that I have seen, I have 
retained it here as a distinct species. 
Melitaea jezabel. (Plate XXIV. fig. 9, $ var.) 
MelitcEa jezahel, Obertliiir, Etud. cVEutom. xi. p. 17, pi. ii. fig. 14 (1886). 
MaJe. Deep fulvous: all the wings broadlj- bordered witli black, especially the secondaries. 
Primaries have three black-outlined stigmata, one at the outer extremity of discoidal cell, 
one in the cell, and one below it in the submedian interspace ; the central series of black 
spots not always complete, but these are often well defined and sometimes fairly large ; 
s.ubmarginal series of black spots confluent towards costa : there is a series of small spots of 
the ground-colour along the inner portion of the marginal border. Secondaries have the 
basal area black ; central line black, the costal half often broken up into spots. Tringes 
whitish, chequered with black at the ends of the nervules. Under surface of primaries pale 
fulvous ; the stigmata of upper surface faintly reproduced ; central series of spots represented 
by three near costa ; the submarginal series often conspicuous, but sometimes ill-defined or 
entirely absent ; a submarginal scries of yellow crescents, most clearly defined towards costa, 
where they are inwardly edged with black. Secondaries darker than primaries, with the 
following yellow markings : — an oblique interrupted basal band ; a discoidal spot edged with 
black; a central, slightly angulated, macular band transversely intersected by a blackish line; 
and a submarginal series of crescents edged on both sides with black ; the nervules are edged 
with yellowish on the submarginal area, and this portion of the wing is traversed by a wavy 
black line, most distinctly seen towards inner margin. 
Female. This sex is dimorphic. In the commoner form the ground-colour is rather paler than that 
of the male, and the central and submarginal series of black spots are well developed. On 
the secondaries the inner half of the wing is deeply suffused with black ; there is a pale 
discoidal spot edged with black ; a central series of black spots and indications of two 
transverse black lines ; the submarginal line is either yellowish or greyish. Sometimes 
the outer margin is broadly black, and is traversed by a series of reddish spots and the 
yellowish or greyish submarginal line. Fringes whitish, chequered with black. 
The other form (Plate XXIV. fig. 9) is fuliginous, suffiised with grey on the costa of primaries 
* Eom. sur Lep. iii. p. 301, pi. xiv. fig. 3 (1SS7). 
