240 ^YMPHALID.E. 
the type and valesina. Stauclinger (Rom. sur Lep. vi. p. 19G) records valesina 
fi'om Askold. 
Plate XXm. fig. 2 represents a remarkable aberration of the female, taken 
by a native collector at Chang-yang, Central China, in July 1889. 
Widely distributed throughout China, Japan, Corea, and Europe. It also 
occurs in Ammiand, and M. Oberthiir has recorded a male specimen from the 
Isle of Askold, which he says does not differ from specimens received from 
Kiang-si in China. 
A very complete life-history of this species will be found in Buclder's 
' Larvae of British Butterflies.' 
Argynnis anadyomene. (Plate XXIII. fig. l ab. 6 .) 
Ai-ffynnis anadi/omene, Feldcr.Wien. ent. Mon. vi. p. 25 (1861); Lang, Butt. Eur. 
p. 221 (1884) ; Pryer, Rliop. Nihon. p. 28, pi. viii. fig. 2 (1889). 
Argynnis ella, Bremer, Lep. Ost-Sib. p. 94, pi. viii. fig. 1 (1864). 
Argynnis midas, Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. ix. p. 53 (1866). 
" Alls supra fulvis, raaculis inordinate digestis pone disciim, seric externa maculari, altera 
marginal! maoulis grossis rhombcis formata, nigris, auticis faloaHs, figurls cellularibus nigris, 
posticis subtus a;neo-virescentibus, margine costali, striga ilexuosa pone disciim punotiaque 
quatuor exterioribus argenteis, maoulis submargiualibus obsoletis griseo-lilasceutibus. S ." 
(Felder, I. c.) 
A. midas, Butler. — "Alse anticae costa couvexa, apice rotundato anguloque anali acuto : supra 
maculis ut in A. paphia dispositis, veuis autem excipe medianam tertiam nee fuseis. Alae 
posticBB quadratae, area apicali maculis ut in A. iiapliia dispositis scd majoribus ; cella 
maoulis sex terminata in triangulo positis. 
" Alse antic83 subtus pallidiores, cella maculisque ut in A. paphia, area apicali maculis olivaceis 
obscurissimis. Alfe posticoe nitcntes, ocbrese, pallidas, fasciis maculisque olivaceis variae, 
fascia una media indistincta argcntea luuulata puuctisque nonnuUis argenteis inter venas 
positis. Corpus pallidum ocbreo-album. 
" Alar. exp. una. 2i." (Butler, I. c.) 
Costa of primaries convex ; outer margin deeplj- concave. 
Male. Fulvous, with some long black scales on the first median nervule only of primaries ; black 
spots arranged as in A. laodice but larger, especiall)' on the outer margins. On the secondaries 
the spots forming series beyond the cell are more widely separated, and the spot at apex of 
cell is often triangular in shape. Underside : primaries buff, with diseal markings as above, 
but the marginal area is usually immaculate : secondaries greenish buff, with some indistinct 
transverse central lines ; the outer half of the wing limited b}' a wavy lilacine band, and 
traversed by some bands of the same colour, below a broad white crescent on costa there is a 
curved series of white points. 
Female. Similar to the male, but generally duller in colour ; apices of primaries clouded with 
black on upper surface, with a white spot ; the basal half of secondaries is tinged with 
greenish : on the under surface of primaries the apical area is greenish, clouded with lilacine, 
