232 NYMPHALID^. 
One male, Wa-shan, and one female, Wa-ssu-kow. 
A. aqlaia is generally distributed throughout Western China, North- 
west and Central Japan, Corea, Amurland, and Europe. In the North-west 
Himalayas it is represented by A. vitatha, Moore, which Mr. de Niceville 
considers to be " at best but a very slight variety of A. aglaia." 
Argynnis adippe. (Plate XXII. figs. 3, 4, 5, vars.) 
Papilio adippe, Linnseus, Syst. Nat. xii. p. 786 {1767); Hiibner, Eur. Schmett. i. 
figs. 63, 64 (1793-1794). 
Argynnis adippe, Godart, Euc. M(5th. ix. p. 265 (1819) ; Lang, Butt. Eur. p. 212, pi. li. 
fig. 1 (1884) ; Pryer, Rhop. Nihon. p. 28, pi. vii. figs. 1, 2 (1889). 
Argynnis vorax, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1871, p. 403 ; Lep. Exot. p. 151, pi. liv. 
fig. 1 (1873). 
Argynnis pallescens, Butler, Cist. Ent. i. p. 164 (1873). 
Argynnis locuples, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) to. p. 134 (1879). 
" Expands from 1-90 to 2-20 inches. The male closelj' resembles that of the last [A. niohe], but the 
black lines along the nervures of the fore wings are thicker. The female is brighter fulvous, 
and the dark markings are not so intense as in A. niohe, neither is there the black shading 
towards the base of the wings found in that species. Underside : fore wings brighter fulvous 
than in A. niohe, with distinct silvery markings near the apex. Hind wings light yellow, 
with a fulvous tinge ; spots well defined and silvery ; between the hind marginal and central 
rows is a series of reddish spots with silvery centres ; the inner margin is greenish, with 
silvery gloss." (Lancf, I. e.) 
Larva. " Reddish brown, with a whitish dorsal stripe, and a black spot on either side of this on 
every segment ; the spines Kght brown. Feeds on Viola tricolor and V. odorafa in May 
and June." {Lang, J. c.) 
The early stages of A. adippe are described at some length in Buckler's 
'Larvae of British Butterflies,' i. pp. 65-71. 
Var. VOrax, Butler. (Plate XXII. fig. 5, d .) " AfiBnis A. adippe, differt alls anticis costa 
multo longiore, margine externo magis arcuato, posticis margine interno longiore, omnibus 
supra maculis submarginalibus fulvis angustioribus ; subtus characteribus discoideis minus 
eonspicuis ; anticoe maculis discalibus majoribus ; posticae pallidiores, area basali viridiore ; 
maculis argenteis vix nigro marginatis ; serie ocellorum minus angulata ; lunulis submar- 
ginalibus viridibus. Exp. alar. unc. 3, lin. 2. 
" Nearly allied to A. adippe, but more like A papJiia in form." (Biider, 1. c.) 
This form, the type of which was taken at Shanghai, occurs at Kiukiang 
and Chang-yang, Central China ; but I have not received it from any of the 
western localities. 
