AEQYXNIS. 2o/ 
Examples of the female from the Isle of Kiusliiu have very large black spots. 
On the under surface tlic ground-colour of secondaries varies from fulvous 
yellow to pale green, the outer lialf, limited by an irregular macular silvery 
baud, is sometimes gi'ecnish and sometimes purple-bro%vn, but in all cases 
traversed by undulated lilacinc bands Avhich vary in width and intensity ; in 
some specimens the outer area of secondaries, whether greenish or purple- 
broAvn, is suffused witli lilacine. Tlie reddish or brownish central band on 
secondaries varies greatly in width, and is sometimes composed of two lines 
which lie apart on the costa, but unite at their termination at submedian 
nervure ; there is a projection from the outer line extending almost to the 
middle of the wing. 
The Western Chinese examples of A. laodice seem to approach very close 
to A. rudra. INIoore*, which Mr. Elwesf considers to be a local race of 
A. laodice, and in this opinion I am inclined to concur. 
Amurland specimens are rather larger and brighter coloured than Eiu-opean, 
and appear to be intermediate between the type and the Japanese form 
japonica. Men. 
Distributed througliout Russia, Amurland, Japan, Corea, and China. M. 
OberthiirJ records it as common in the Isle of Askold, and states that 
examples from thence do not differ from South-Russian specimens. It has 
also been found in Germany. 
Argynnis ruslana. (Plate XXIII. figs. 3 <:? , 4 ab. ? .) 
Argynnis ruslana, Motscliulsky, Bull. Mosc. 1866, ii. p. 117; Prycr, Rhop. Nihou. p. 29, 
pi. viii. fig. 6 (1889). 
Argynnis lysippe, Jansoii, Cist. Ent. ii. p. 154 (1877). 
" Statura Arg. laodice sed minor, maculis distinctior. 5 alls supra fulvis nigro maculatis, S antiee 
immaculatis, externe mcdioque fasciis violaceo-fuscis, margine iitrinque macula subalbida. 
Exp. al., $ 21 1., S 20 1." (MotscJmMy, I. c.) 
Argynnis hjsipjie, Jauson. '^ XQxeA. to A. laodice^ Pall., and .1. japonica, Menetr., but consider- 
ably larger, and with the primaries much more produced at the apex. Above it differs from 
japonica in being of a darker and slightly greenish tint, with the fringes dirty brown ; the 
primaries have the second and third transverse marks in the cell angular, closer together, and 
united at their lower ends, the black spots are larger, the second and fifth of the inner series 
* Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. i. p. 157 (1857). 
t Trans. Ent. Soc. Loud. 1889, p. 5G1. 
t Etud. d'Entom. v. p. U (1880). 
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