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NEW SPECIES OF LEPIDOPTERA FROM CHINA. 

 By J. H. Leech, B.A., F.L.S., &c. 



The following species of Lepidoptera are new to science. 

 They were taken by my collectors, Messrs. Pratt and Kricheldorff, 

 in Western China during the year 1889, together with those 

 previously described by me in the 'Entomologist,' vol. xxiii., 

 pp. 187—192. 



RHOPALOCERA. 



ZOPHOESSA ARGENTATA, Sp. n. 

 Allied to Zophoessa {Debis) albolineala, Poujade,* but smaller ; the male 

 has two whitish bands on the primaries (in this respect resembling the female 

 oi Z. alholineata), approximating towards the inner angle ; the outermost is 

 followed by a series of five black dots. Secondaries have five black marginal 

 spots, as in alholineata, but they are set in pale rings, and the white pupils 

 of the fourth and fifth are more distinct ; a pale line, parallel with outer 

 margin, expands into a band towards anal angle, where it becomes bright 

 fulvous. On the under surface of primaries the markings of this species are 

 somewhat similar to those of Zophoessa (Debis) andersoni, Atkinson, but on 

 the secondaries the costal, median, and submedian nerves are mapped out in 

 silver ; the central silver fascia is broad, but does not extend beyond the third 

 median nervule ; a slender transverse silver streak runs from the base of the 

 first median nervule, and almost parallel with that vein, nearly to the anal 

 angle ; silver submarginal band, interrupted by the nervules and bordered 

 internally with dark brown, is followed by a transverse series of silver points 

 set in blackish rings. Expanse, <? 54 mm., $ 58 mm. 



Occurs at Wa-Shan, June ; Chia-Ting-Fu, July ; and Huang- 

 Mu-Chang, August. 



Zophoessa helle, sp. n. 



Closely allied to Zophoessa {Debis) armandina, Oberth.,f but the boundary 

 of the basal two-thirds of primaries is determined by a fairly broad black 

 transverse band, which runs obliquely outwards from the costa to below the 

 end of cell, from whence it is only slightly indented to inner margin ; this 



* ' Bulletin des Annales de France,' 1885, p. cxliii. ; Oberth. ' Etud. d'Entom.' 

 xiii. pi. X. fig. Ill (1890). 



t Etud. d'Entom.' vi. p. 16, pi. vii. fig. 6 (1881). 



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