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SOME NEW SPECIES OF LEPIDOPTEEA. 

 By the HON. WALTER KOTHSCHILD. 



]. Grapta bocki sp. nov. 



(PL XI., fig. 7.) 



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? . Similar to G. gigantea Leacli ; but differs in the following characters : — • 



Upperside : both wings without the two marginal lines met with in 

 G. gigantea, the black colour much larger in extent, so that the ochreous markings 

 (which are rufous in G. gigantea) are much reduced in size, and not connected with 

 each other on the forewings. 



On the underside the disc of the wings is tawny olive, the marginal bluish 

 zigzag line stops at the discal uervule on the hindwings, and, on the forewings, 

 borders only the deep median sinus of the wing ; the white mark of the anterior 

 wings as in G. gigantea, that of the hindwings standing in shape between the mark 

 of G. gigantea and G. c-aureum (L.). 



Expanse : 2-To inches = 70 mm. 



Hub. Interior of China (west of Ishang). 



Named in honour of the collector. 



2. Charaxes tavetensis sp. nov. 



J. Closely allied to Ch. cacutliis Hew. from Madagascar, in size, colour, and 

 style of marking ; but differs in the much narrower jjale blue l)and of the fore- 

 wings, consisting of three distinctly separated marks, the anterior of which between 

 the second and third branch of the median nervure is small ; the bund of the hind- 

 wings is posteriorly as broad as in Ch. cacuthis, but the anterior half from the discal 

 nervule to the costa is strongly narrowed, and being widely interrupted on the ner- 

 vules dissolved into two small spots ; the two small white spots on the hindwing 

 between the branches of the subcosta, close to the inner margin of the blue band, are 

 absent in the new insect, which has only one white spot beyond the middle of the 

 costa like Ch. etesipe Godt. ; the submarginal white spots of the hindwing are a 

 little larger than in Ck cacuthis. 



On the underside the parts which are greenish olive in Ch. cacuthis are blackish 

 browu in my new form ; the cellule between submedian nervure and posterior 

 branch of the median one is almost entirely washed with blackish brown, and the 

 brownish black semicircular mark of this cellule found in Ch. cacuthis is dissolved 

 in Ch. tavetensis sp. nov. into two rather widely separated transverse streaks, the 

 outermost of which reaches the submedian nervures, while the innermost is 

 abbreviated halfway to that nervure, both streak-like markings include each a narrow 

 brown spot at the base ; in the next cellule there are two brown bars margined witli 

 black, approximate and sometimes even confluent posteriorly in Ck. cacuthis, while 

 in Ch. tacetensis sp. nov., these markings are parallel and not approximate ; the 

 brown bar of the following cellule again stands much farther from tlic angle of the 

 cellule in the new species than in Ch. cacuthis; the inner row of black sjmts crossing 

 the apical half of the forewing is curved in Ch. cacuthis, and approaches posteriorly 



