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the hasp of the forewing is dusted with yellow and the hindwing bears a fourth row of elongated dots, 

 the abdominal area being yellow. Fringes yellowish white, interrupted. $ larger, otherwise similar to 

 the ^. Distributed in Central and West China, the l)utterflies occurring in grassy locaUties. 



C. aspersa Leecli (= clitus Nicer.) (84 d). The forewing black with a reddish tinge, and 10 trans- aspersa. 

 parent white dispersed spots as follows: three small apical dots close together, below them two smaller 

 ones nearer the margin, three rather large ones in cellules 2, 3 and 4, forming an arc, one in cellule 

 ■2 near the margin and one more near the base. On the hindwing there are three rows of dark yellow 

 spots. Fringes orange, interrupted by black spots. Underside similar to upper, but the hindwing bears 

 three yellow smears at the base. Thorax reddish, with yellow hairs. West China. 



C. consanguinea Leech (84 d). Close to mavulosciy differing from it in the two white spots of the ^°^"^g"' 

 median row of the forewing being large and rectangular. The rows of spots on the hindwing are reduced, 

 the basal row containing but one spot, the median row three and the distal row four small dots of a 

 paler yellow tint. On the underside the base of the forewing is black. The fringes of both wings are white 

 and interrupted. This rather rare species flies in Eastern Tibet, and West and Central China. 



C. sumitra Moore (= pluscula Leech, patula Nicer., plagifera Nicer.) (84 d). A variable species, s^lmiira. 

 divided into several species by de Niceville. The northern form, pluscula Leech, has large, broad, black- plusmla. 

 brown wings, with two transverse rows of white spots on the forewing, the one being apical and composed 

 of five spots, the other median and containing five or six spots; all the spots isolated. The hindwing 

 has three rows of very broad, light orange spots; the first row basal, containing two spots, the second 

 row antemedian, consisting of four spots, and the third row near the margin, likewise composed of four 

 spots. On the underside the number of spots is sometimes increased (= plagifera). The base of both 

 wings is dusted with dark red and the shaft of the antenna has partly a silvery gloss in the cJcJ. China 

 (Sze-chuen). 



C. leucocera. Dark brown. Forewing with a median row of two, almost quadrangular, white spots, 

 one in the cell and the other below it, the row being continued by a streak at the costal margin, a dot 

 below the second spot and another small dot at the outer corner of that spot; three apical spots, below 

 them two additional dots. Hindwing black, with two pale yellow spots on the discocellulars, a median 

 row of three spots and a marginal row of four to six unequal spots. Fringes white, interrupted. The 

 spots are very distinct on the underside and pale yellow; in the cell a double spot; in the centre a row 

 of three spots, at the posterior part of the outer margin a row of four. The upperside of the antenna 

 silvery white in the ^J. A very variable species. In the form putra Moore all the spots mentioned are putra. 

 present; in leucocera Koll. only the two large white discal spots of the forewing remain, the hindwing not leucocera. 

 bearing any spots; but there occur also specimens in which half the spots are present or in which all the 

 spots are very small. — The species is common and distributed from the North-Western Himalayas to 

 Central China and southwards over India to the Malayan islands. 



C. nigricans Nicev. (84 e). A species of medium size (35 mm) ; black, with a pure white median band, nigricans. 

 not interrupted by the veins, which are white, the triangular spot of the band completely' fills the angle 

 between veins :3 and 4; a small spot at the lower end of the band is isolated. Three apical spots and 

 below them two more, which are close together. Fringes blackish, on the hindwing dirty white. Under- 

 side without spots. North- Western Himalayas. 



C. asmara Bflr. (84 e). Of the same size as /n'f/r/co^s. Wings black: median band of the forewing oswiora. 

 white, terminating at vein '2: only three apical spots. Hindwing rounded, with blackish fringes. Underside 

 somewhat paler, the hind angle of the forewing dusted with white. I have received specimens which are 

 said to be from -lapan. The species is rather widely distributed in southern India, Pegu and the Malay 

 Archipelago. 



C. tibetana Mab. (S4 e). Wings deep black. The forewing traversed by an uninterrupted, white, tibetana. 

 transparent band which extends from the costal towards the inner margin, ending at vein 1 ; three apical 

 spots close together. The fringes of the hindwing white, hardly interrupted. On the underside the hindwing 

 has a narrow whitish discocellular spot, and a row of pale, often scarcely visible spots placed between 

 the veins. West China (Mupin), in Tali and Tibet; also in Yunnan (Siao-lu). 



7. Genus: Satariipa Moore. 



Club of antenna thin, hook-shaped, the long apex being curved backwards. Palpi porrect, with the 

 third segment conical. Vein 3 of forewing very close to lower angle of cell, vein 2 nearer the base than 

 usually. Hindtibia with 2 pairs of spurs and a long brush of hairs. 



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