636 HESPEEIID.E. 
"La femelle differe du male, pareo qu'elle porte a I'aile supdrieure uiie taehe jaune pale assez 
epaisse dans Fiiiterieur de la cellule, et an dela, une rangee en forme de croissant de huit 
taches jaunes intranervuralcs, dont les premieres lineaires allant en s'elargissaut jusqua la 
derniere. 
" Le dessous reproduit les differences du dessus." (ObertMir, I. c.) 
" Olivaceous brown, the wings with bright golden or 3-ellowish cupreous reflections, and with the 
basal three fourths densely sprinkled with fulvoas hair-like scales; fringe creamy whitish: 
primaries with an indication of four or five increasing oval discal buff-coloured spots, which, 
however, are concealed in certain lights by the shot colouring of the wing : head bright 
fulvous; thorax densely clothed with fulvous hair; palpi jet-black, with a broad yellow 
band. Under surface olivaceous, with slight golden reflections : primaries with the pale buff 
spots distinct, forming a pyramidal patch, the base of which is expanded and occupies the 
whole internal border, divided by the median branches ; a small bifid yellow spot within the 
end of the cell, and a few radiating scales of this colour beyond the cell : secondaries with 
yellowish abdominal area : tibite and tarsi bright orange. Expanse of wings 1 inch 10 lines." 
(Butle,; I. c.) 
This species is not rare in mountainous parts of Central Japan and also in 
Yesso. It is also found in the Isle of Askold and at Vladivostock. So far it 
has not been received from either the Corea or China. Flies in July and 
August. 
Ismene septentrionis. 
Ismene seplentrionis, Fclcler, Reise Nov., Lep. iii. p. 525, pi. Ixxiii. fig 3 (1867). 
Ismene striata, Hewitson, Exot. Butt. iv. {Ismene) pi. i. figs. 6, 7 (1867). 
" Ala? supra fuscae, antics juxta venam costalem et ad basin ochraceo-fulvo squamatfe et i)ilosa3, 
dcin a plica cellulie ultra venam internam nigro pauUo elatius squamatae, ciliis sordide albidis, 
posticfE a basi interiore ultra medium ochraceo-fulvo pilosoe, ciliis sordide albidis, in margine 
anali vero aurantiacis. 
" Alse subtus pallide eeneo-virides, venis fuscis liueisque in paribus inter eas fundo multo obscuri- 
oribus, anticae apud venam subcostalem et mediauam ochraceo-fulvo breviter pilosae, vitta 
lineari inter ramum medianum primum et secundum limboijuo interno fuscis, posticse pilis in. 
costiE parte basali arcuata ciliisque analibus aurantiacis. 
" Palpi, articulo tcrminali nigro escepto, caput et thorax fulvo pilosa. Abdomen nigro-fuscum 
f'.ilvescenti annulatum, cinctura anali aurantiaco-fulva, vitta ventrali ochraceo-fulva. 
" Aloe latiores, quam in mare, supra unicolores, fuscee, anticte margine tantum costali ad basin 
ochraceo-fulvo atomato, cajterum omnes utrinque ut in mare. Thorax supra postice canus. 
"Habitat. China Septentrional : Shanghai." (Fehler, I.e.) 
" Upperside. Male. Anterior wing dark brown, with the base and spaces between the subcostal 
nervules rufous ; the median and submedian nervures black at their bases. Posterior wing 
rufous, with the outer margin dark brown. Underside green, closely striated longitudinally 
with dark brown. Anterior wing dark brown below the cell; the inner margin rufous, the 
fringe white. Posterior wing with the fringe orange, broadest at the anal angle ; the 
abdomen below orange, banded with black. 
" Expanse 2-j4j inches. China." (Hewitson, I. c.) 
