Lepidopfcra from Cliina. 3 



Lethe baucis, sp. n. 

 Allied to Lethe hrisanda, de Niceville, but the ground colour is not so 

 reddish brown; wings broader and rounder; outer margin of secondaries 

 not so produced ; ocelli smaller ; both sexes have a pale apical mark, and 

 the female a white fascia resembling that of Lethe rohria, Fabr, Under 

 surface : there is no pale bar in the cell of primaries ; the line commences 

 nearer the centre of costa ; the ocelli of secondaries are all larger, and the 

 central line is not indented below the middle. Expanse, (? 64 mm., ? 

 66 mm. 



A long series of both sexes taken at Wa-Shan, June and July ; 

 Chia-Kou-Ho, July and August ; and Ta-Tsien-Lu, July. 



Lethe Helena, sp. u. 



(? . Fuscous brown, outer half of primaries pale ; secondaries with a sub- 

 marginal series of five black spots ringed with paler, and the last pupillated. 



? . Like the male, but the primaries are traversed by a broad, straight, 

 white fascia from centre of costa to inner angle, and the spots on secondaries 

 are all pupillated with white. Under surface of both sexes as in Lethe 

 lanaris, Butl., but the pale outer area of primaries in male is larger ; the 

 white fascia is present in the female, and the transverse lines of secondaries 

 are nearer together. Expanse, $ 70 mm., ? 76 mm. 



Five males and one female taken at Chia-Ting-Fu in July. 

 Lethe hecate, sp. n. 



Closely allied to L. cyrene, Leech, but smaller and darker brown in 

 colour ; the outer margin of primaries is rounder ; the ocelli on secondaries 

 are smaller, without distinct fulvous rings, and the fourth and fifth have 

 white centres. The colour of the under surface is greyish ; the outer discal 

 bar of primaries is not continued beyond the median nervure, and the band 

 beyond the cell is narrower, more oblique, and sinuous, and terminates at 

 the first median nervule. On the secondaries the first ocellus is not so far 

 removed from the others as in L. cyrene, and the whitish borders to the 

 narrower and darker transverse lines and other whitish markings are much 

 less broad. Expanse, 60 mm. 



Occurs at Wa-Shan, June and July; Chia-Ko-Hou, July; 

 Huang-Mu-Chang, August. 



Lethe Camilla, sp. n. 



(? . Dark brown, darker on central area, and clothed with hairs along 

 the nervules and submedian nervure ot primaries; there is a pale spot near 

 the apex, and this is the only distinct marking. Secondaries have a large 

 blackish patch towards anal angle (evidently a sexual character), sparingly 

 clothed with long brownish hairs ; there are three black spots on outer 

 margin, two of these are situated towards outer angle (the upper one is not 

 always distinct), and the other before the blackish sexual patch referred to. 

 Under surface grey-brown, suffused with reddish on the outer third of all the 

 wings; the transverse markings are reddish brown, and similar in character 

 to those of L. latiaris, Hew., but the second line of secondaries is not 

 indented, the first and fifth ocelli are much larger and more distinctly 

 formed; on the primaries the outer central line is followed by a broad 

 yellowish band, and the ocelli are well defined. 



$. Primaries reddish brown, with a fairly broad, interrupted, fulvous 

 central band, and a paler spot towards apex. On the outer margin of 

 secondaries there are five black spots, the first and fifth with white central 



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