TEINOPALPUS; LUEHDORFIA. By Dr. K. von Rosen. 
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filled up with black. But there are also transitions to the typical form. It may be that parus Nic. is identical 
with it; it was described as a distinct species, according to a specimen with aberrative band-marking, from 
Tseku. The specimen figured in Vol. I, pi. 8 a also originates from Tseku (Coll. Key), at the frontier- of the 
palaearctic region. - taliensis 0. Bang-H ., from Tali in West Yunnan. The submarginal band of the forewing taliensis. 
is remarkably broad, on the hindwing the black irroration of this band is continued to the cell. Not yet 
ascertained in the palaearctic region. 
P. alebion alebion Gray (= honei Bang-H. i. 1.) (3 b), from Eastern China is rather rare, characterized alebion. 
by the white ground-colour. Faultily figured in Vol. I; figured here after a specimen from Nanking. timur timur. 
Ney is the Western Chinese form with darkened bands, the ground-colour being darker, too. Easily recognizable 
by the invariably dark-edged 3rd median branch of the hindwing. 
P. agetes honei Mell. With this race the species approaches the border of the palaearctic region which honei. 
it may perhaps reach. It is the smallest race from the mountain-forests in the north of the Prov. of Kwantung. 
The 2nd band of the forewing touches the inner margin, the median band of the hindwing is also above visible, 
the red anal spot paler, broadly bordered upward. Head and thorax apparently without red colouring. 
P. cloanthus clymenus Leech. The specimen figured in Vol. I. pi. 8 c belongs to the larger summer cloanthus. 
generation, the smaller spring generation has narrower black bands. 
P. sarpedon L. The Chinese race semifasciatus Hour., according to Jordan, occurs in some places in sarpedon. 
three forms, a spring generation with broad bands, a summer form with narrow bands, and a 2nd summer form 
with a more or less obsolete band on the hindwing. We figure of both generations specimens from Szechwan 
with a very much reduced green band of the hindwing (1 d and 2 c). The Japanese race nipponus Fruhst. nipponus. 
(in Vol. I as sarpedon) differs little from the Chinese, and the diferences stated by Jordan in Vol. IX, p. 95 
(a more intense blackening of the veins crossing the green band and a distinct development of the grey sub¬ 
marginal line in the posterior portion of the forewing beneath) apparently do not always occur in northernmore 
specimens. The band of the hindwing is presumably never so much reduced as in extreme Chinese specimens, 
in f. sarpedonides Fruhst. broader than in the summer generation. sarpedoni- 
des. 
P. leechi Rothsch. (2 d). Only the type figured here (Tring Museum) from Chang-Yang in Central China leechi. 
was known. Before me there are hardly different specimens from the Yunling Mts. in Szechwan. Above and 
beneath much lighter than bathycles Zink (Vol. IX, pi. 44 c), with very pale green spots, so that the ligthcostal- 
marginal spot of the hindwing is but feebly prominent. The penultimate discal spot of the forewing is prolonged 
to the cell, sometimes fused with the large basal spot, but between both there is always a black spot left 
projecting along the vein like an arrow into the green colouring. A row of small spots between the submarginal 
and discal rows of spots on the hindwing is mostly present. Beneath the red spots of the hindwing are more 
yellowish, near the base there is a conspicuous round yellowish-red spot (as in bathycles from Java). Vein- 
streaks very feebly marked. The woolly scent-organ is strongly developed. 
P. bathycles clanis Lord. (Vol. IX, p. 100), described from Fukien, may also extend yet into palaearctic clanis. 
China. Notrare at its habitats. 
1. Genus: Teiiiopalpus Hope. 
T. aureus Mell (2 c). This South-Chinese representative of imperialis Hope (Vol. IX, pi. 49 c) approaches aureus. 
the frontier of the palaearctic region and may also wander still farther to the north; in the shape of the 
wings (the forewing being rounded at the apex) and in the gigantic development of the golden yellow discal 
spot of the hindwing, however, it shows such differences that it may be regarded as a distinct species. It is 
one of the most interesting discoveries of the author having so successfully explored the Chinese fauna. Rare 
in the mountain-forests of Northern Kwangtung; $ still unknown. 
2. Genus: I^uelidorfia Criiger. 
It was Sheljuzhko’s view already in 1910 in the “Revue Russe d’Entomologie” and later on in 1913 
in the "Iris” that puziloi Ersch. and japonica Fryer are probably two different species. Evidently ignorant of 
the works of Sheljuzhko, Rothschild in his “Novitates Zoologicae” separated the two species in 1918 and 
distributed the hitherto named races upon it. He describes, as Sheljuzhko, the cpiite differently structured 
and coloured ovipository bags, being richly sculptured in puziloi with a large, distinctly defined median terminal 
