LYC^NA. 315 
Fixsen adds : " like avion on upper surface, but more strongly marked, and 
like orion on the under surface with larger spots." He also compares it with 
euphemus, Hiibn. 
Occurs in Corea, and flies in the beginning of June. 
Lycaena chinensis. 
Lyccena chinensis, Murraj^ Traus. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1874, p. 523, pi. .x. fig. 5. 
Lycana mandschurica, Staudinger, Roiu. sur Lep. vi. p. 160 (1892). 
" Wings brown above, ■with a conspicuous submarginal orange band, equally marked on both 
\rings, and a faint black streak closing the cell. In the fore wing the orange band is divided 
b}- the veins into almost square sijots : in the hind wing the band is composed of a series of 
contiguous crescents, seated upon a row of black spots. Fringe white ; interrupted by brown. 
Underside : pale grey-brown, the orange band as conspicuous as above, continuous in both 
wings. Fore wing : no spot between base and discocellular spot. Beyond middle is a discal 
row of seven spots, twice bent at a right angle, so that the sixth is immediately below the 
discocellular spot ; the costal spot is small and indistinct. All these spots are white- rino-ed. 
The orange band is edged on both sides by a row of spots, the inncrmos'; row consisting of 
larger, but less well-defined spots than the outer. Hind wing : a basal row of four spots, a 
discocellular spot, and a discal row of eight spots, much curved and angulated, all white- 
ringed. The orange band is edged as on fore wing by rows of spots, but in this case the spots 
of the outer row are larger than those of the inner. In both wings the fringe, which is 
spotted, is preceded by a narrow black line. 
" Expands 1" 3'". 
" This very distinct species is (judging from the markings of the underside) most nearly allied to 
Lye. pylaon, F., while the upperside reminds one strongly of L, astrarche." {Murray, I, c.) 
Mr. Elwes (Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1881, p. 889) says :— " It is probable 
that L. chinensis, Avhatever it is, refers to the species Avhich Bremer calls 
L. ptjlaon in his Pekin list. Dr. Staudinger, however, has never seen 
L. pylaon from any part of Eastern Siberia." 
Staudinger [1. c.) records L. astrarche, v. alloiw, Hiibn., from various parts 
of Amurland, and says that this has nothing to do with his Z. mandschurica, 
Avhich he received in some numbers from Herz, who found them from the 
middle of June to the end of July at Taschiao-sy to the north of Pekin, and 
which is quite a distinct species from L. astrarche. Mandschurica, he says, 
agrees on the upper surface with astrarche, but in one small male specimen 
the red band is evanescent. All the specimens, however, differ from astrarche, 
in any of its forms, in having the fringe equally chequered with white and 
brownish black. The light grey under surface, which is sometimes slightly 
tinged with brown, separates this species from astrarche. The black ocelloid 
