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white spot near the apes, and several along the hind margin. Hind wings with a central 
white band, outside which is a double row of black spots, and outside these a row of white 
ones. Underside : fore wings green, black, and white ; hind wings green, with silvery 
markings." {Lang, I. c) 
Common and widely distributed in China and throughout Japan and 
Corea. It also occurs in Amurland, Eastern Siberia, and the Isle of Askold. 
The species is very constant in colour and markings, but varies somewhat in 
size. Some of the specimens from China attain a wing-expansion of 90 
millim. in the male and 100 millim. in the female. The Amurland specimens 
are rather smaller than those from places further south. 
Argynnis zenobia. (Plate XXIII. figs. 6 c? , 5 ? .) 
Argynnis zenohia, Leech, Entomologist, xxiii. p. 188 (1890) ; Oberthiir, Etud. d'Entom. 
xvi. p. 7, pi. i. fig. 1, S (1892). 
Argynnis penelope, Staudlnger, Iris zu Dresden, iv. p. 339 (1891). 
Male. Fulvous, with black markings as iu A. cli'ddftni, Gray, but the outer margin of secondaries 
is without the bluish tinge of that species, and the sinuses are not nearly so deep. On the 
under surface of primaries there is not the least tinge of red of any shade ; the silvery lines 
at apex are sinuate and enclose three black spots, the upper one more distinct than the other 
two : on the secondaries there is more blue in the composition of the greenish ground-colour ; 
the basal and discal lines are very similar to these characters in A. rldldreni; the central 
band is sinuous and interrupted at the end of the cell, where there is a large black dot ; 
marginal and submarginal silvery lines are more indented, and towards costa the opposing 
angles of these lines meet and form rings ; before the submarginal is a series of black spots, 
each with a centre slightly paler than the ground-colour. 
Female. Rather paler than the male ; base of inner margin of all the wings suffused with 
greenish; there are some spots and a transverse line terminating in a large subquadrate spot 
in cell of secondaries. 
Antennae of the male brown, club black with fulvous apex; of the female, as in same sex of 
A. cluldreni. 
Expanse, d S-t millim., 2 87 millim. 
In size and in the ground-colour of upper surface this species closely 
resembles my specimens of A. cluldreni from N.W. India, but they are much 
smaller and paler than my examples of that species from N.W. China ; these 
last measure from 94 to 110 miUim. 
Several specimens of each sex were captured by my collectors at Ta-chien-lu 
in July. M. Grum-Grshimailo met with this species in North-western 
Thibet. Staudinger received a few male specimens from the district north 
of Pekin. Dorries also obtained it in the Sutschan district of Amurland in 
July and mentions that it was very scarce. 
