LYC.ENA. 313 
This appears to be a rather local species. It occurs commonly at Ichang 
and Chang-yang, Central China, in May and June, but in Western China 
my collectors only met with it at Moupin, from which place the type was 
received by M. Obcrthiir. 
Lycaena pryeri. 
Lrjcana pryeri, Murray, Eut. Mo. Mag. x. \}. 126 (1873) ; Pryer, Rhop. Nihon. p. 18, 
pi. ?. fig. 16 (1886). 
" Male. Upperside bright violet-blue, costa, tip, and hind margin broadly dark brown ; inner 
margin of hind wing white. A dark brown streak closes the disooidal cell of fore wing. 
Fringes white. Female similar to the male, but only blue at base and along inner margin 
of fore wing, the disc being white. The discal portion of hind wing is also whitish, the 
base being dusky. A blue streak closes the cell of hind wing in this sex ; in the male this 
streak is hardly perceptible. In both sexes the veins of the wings are very distinct ; in the 
female they are edged with bluish scales on the discal portion of the wing. 
" Underside white, with two marginal rows of black spots on each wing ; those of inner row of 
upper wing being the largest, and seven in number. The outer row is composed of about 
twelve spots. A fine black lino occupies the extreme hind margin of both wings. Discoidal 
cell closed by a brown streak, most distinct on fore wing. Exp., J 22 lin., $ 24 lin. 
" Hob. Japan." {Murray, I. c.) 
Pryer says this species occurs at Yokohama and in Yesso in May and June. 
The only specimens that I met with were captured near the summit of 
Ibuki Yama (Lake Biwa) at about 5000 feet above the sea, in July. 
Staudinger records L. frijeri from various parts of Amurland, and states that 
the specimens do not differ from those from Japan. Dorries met with the full- 
fed larva in June on Syringa amurensis. 
Lycasna euphemus. 
PapUio euphemus, Hiibner, Eur. Sdimett. i. figs. 257-259 (1798-1803). 
Pohjommatus euphemus, Duponcliel, Lep. Fr. Suppl. i. p. 836, pi. 1. figs. 4-6 (1832). 
Lyccena euphemus, Lang, Butt. Eur. p. 133, pi. xxxii. fig. 4 (1884) ; Pryer, Rhop. Nihon. 
p. 198, pi. V. figs. 4 ff, 4 6 (1886). 
Lyccena kazamoto, Druce, Cistula Entom. i. p. 361 (1875). 
Lycana euphemus, var. euphemia, Staudiuger, Rom. sur Lep. iii. pp. 142-288, pi. xiii. 
fig. 6 (1887). 
" Expands 1-25 to 1-3.5 inch. Fringes of all the wings white. Wings blue in both sexes, with a 
dark brownish-black hind marginal border, broader in the female than in the male ; all the 
wings have a narrow black discoidal spot and a central row of round black spots. Under- 
side brownish grey, with the spots arranged as on the upperside, but in addition to these all 
the wings have a hind marginal row of black spots, and the hind wings, which are very 
slightly blue at the base, have two basal spots." {Lang, I. c.) 
