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NEW SPECIES OF KHOPALOCERA from WESTERN CHINA. 



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



Neope simulans, sp. n. 



Allied to N. christi, Oberth., which it almost exactly resembles on the 

 upper surface, but it is smaller, and the venation is not marked with white 

 on the central third of the wings. On the under surface of primaries the 

 yellow markings are deeper in coloiur, and the black ones are more intense ; 

 the ocelli are without pupils ; the white markings of the secondaries are 

 replaced by grey, and are narrower ; the basal transverse olive-brown band 

 is broken up into three spots ; the ocelli are not pupilated, and the second 

 ocellus is elongate. Expanse, <? 70 mm., ? 74 mm. 



Occurs in Western China, at Wa-ssu-Kow, Omi-Sban, Chia- 

 Kow-Ho, and Chow-pin-sa, in June and July. 



Ypthima insolita, sp. n. 



(?. Allied to Y. megalomma, Butl., with which it agrees almost exactly 

 on the upper surface, but exhibits the following differences on the imder 

 surface : — The primaries whitish, heavily suffused with olivaceous, with a 

 well-formed small ocellus directly under the apical one ; the secondaries are 

 whitish, with a broad ill-defined olivaceous band from middle of outer 

 margin to the abdominal fold, before which it unites with another olivaceous 

 band from the middle of costa ; there is a small ocellus at outer angle, 

 another in the first median interspace, and a still smaller one at anal angle ; 

 each of these with silvery pupil and yellow iris. Expanse, 32 mm. 



Three male specimens from Wa-ssu-Kou, where they were 

 taken in June. 



Ypthima pr^nubila, sp. n. 



$• . Fuscous brown ; all the wings have a broad interrupted blackish 

 submarginal band ; the apical ocellus of primaries is somewhat ovate, with 

 two bhiish pupils (set directly one below the other) and suffused yellowish 

 iris ; on the secondaries there are two ocelli towards anal angle, the second 

 bipupilated. The under surface is whitish, tinged with ochreous on primaries 

 and along outer margins of secondaries ; all the wings have a number of 

 transverse undulated brown lines, and the primaries have a brown band from 

 the centre of the wing to the inner margin ; the submarginal band is of the 

 same colour. On the secondaries there is an ocellus just below costa and 

 towards outer angle, and there are two others at anal angle ; all these are 

 fairly large and well defined. 



? . Similar to the male, but the ocellus at anal angle is almost obsolete 

 on the upper surface, and there is an additional one in the second median 

 interspace ; on the under surface all these ocelli are well defined. 



Expanse, $ 56 — 60 mm., $ 64 mm. 



Ta-chien-lu, May and June ; Chia-Kow-Ho and Moupin, 

 July ; Omei-Shan, July and August ; Wa-Shan, August ; 

 Kiukiang. 



Ypthima conjuncta, sp. n. 



$. Allied to Ypthima metliora, Hewitson, but the outer margin is 

 straighter; the colour is slightly paler, and all the wings have a broad 

 fuliginous border on the outer margin ; the basal half of the secondaries is 

 darker, limited by a dentated dusky line ; the ocellus of primaries is more 

 oval in shape, and the yellowish iris is broad and suffused. On the under 

 surface there are fewer undulated lines, and these are coarser, except on the 



