■110 Mr. Leech 071 a collection of 



different under side maculation and the less chequered 

 fringes. 



Only three examples (two males, one female) were 

 received from Kiukiang, but these show sundry modi- 

 fications in size and shape of the spots, and in one 

 specimen the spot between the discoidal and costal is 

 only present on the right secondary. 



46. Niphandafusca. 



Theclafusca, Brem. & Grey, Schmett. Nordl. China's, 

 p. 9 (1853) ; Proc. Zool. Soc, 1887, 410, n. 31. 



Seems common at Kiukiang. 



47. Thecla w-alhum, var. eximia, Fixsn. 



Kiukiang specimens agree well with the type of 

 Fixsen's eximia, which is in the collection of the Grand 

 Duke Nicholas. That insect, however, has nothing 

 whatever to do with 2\ w-alhum, and is either a distinct 

 species or T. grandis, Feld. Felder's description seems 

 to apply to my insect, but as I have, not seen an example 

 of T. grandis, and as there is no figure available for 

 comparison, I am unable to say positively whether it is 

 referable to that species or not. 



48. Thecla micans, Brem. & Grey, Schmett. N. China's, 

 p. 9 (1853). 



Thecla betuloides, Blanch., Compt. Eend., Ixxii., p. 810 



(1871). 

 Three or four specimens taken in May or June. 



49. Thecla pratti, n. s. (PI. VII., fig. 4). 



Male. Primaries black, with violet reflections over the discal 

 area. Secondaries black, with the exception of a violet suffusion, 

 bounded by two imaginary lines drawn from the base of wing, and 

 terminating respectively at the anal angle and the extremity of the 

 first subcostal nervule. Tails black tipped with white ; anal 

 lunule red. Fringes of all the wings pale, but becoming darker 

 towards the apex of primaries. 



Female. Uniformly smoky black. Anal lunule reddish orange, 



