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occupying the wliolo of the disooidal cell. H'mdwing unmarked ; tail 

 very short, reduced to a mere tooth. Underside, loth wings dark grey, 

 with slightly darker markings outwardly defined with white. Fornviiig 

 •with a very irregular discal fascia, and an indistinct marginal fascia. 

 Hindwing with a highly irregular discal fascia, and some very indistinct 

 maro-inal markings ; a small round black spot in the first median inter- 

 space well removed from the margin, faintly surrounded with ferru- 

 ginous ; anal lobe bearing a small black spot. 



Mr. J. H. Leech in Butt. China, vol. ii, p. 346 (1893), records this 

 species as Z. distoHa, de Nic^ville, from Ni-tou and Huang-mu-chang 

 in Western China, with these remarks : — " My collectors found this 

 species rather common. They differ from the Sikkim type in M oiler's 

 collection in being smaller, and in having the purple colour of the 

 upperside darker in tone, while the underside is grey intead of ferru- 

 ginous." My specimens differ from the same sex of Z. distorta from 

 Sikkim, the North Shan States and Sumatra in having the purple colour 

 of the upperside of the fore wing less than half as extensive, and entirely 

 wanting on the hindwing ; the tail a quarter as lono; ; and the ground- 

 colour of the underside of both wings dark grey instead of dull 

 ferruginous or cinnamon-coloured, with no vinous gloss ; and on the 

 hindwing there is no basal line. 



Described from two specimens from Western China kindly sent to 

 me by M. C. Oberthiir. I have not seen the mrde. 

 19. Hypothbcla honos, n. sp., pi. Z, fig. 25, 9 . 

 Habitat : North Celebes. 

 Expanse : $, 1*65 ; 9 , 1*65 to I'SO inches. 



Description : Male. Upperside, hotlt icings dull black, obscurely 

 glossed with purple. Forewing with the purple coloration confined to 

 the discal area. Bmdiving with the veins black ; a marginal series of 

 black spots between the veins inwardly defined by a whitish-violet line, 

 each sjjot produced inwardly to a point ; a fine antociliary white and 

 then an equally fine black line. Cilia long and white, bearing in the 

 middle a very fine black line. (Looked at under a magnifying glass the 

 margin appears to bear five lines — three white and two black.) Tail 

 from the termination of the first median nervule about 6 mm. in length, 

 fine, black, ciliated and cipned with white. Underside, hoth inings pale 

 brown, the markings mostly darker brown, outwardly defined with 



