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XXVI. Descriptions of some neio species belonging to 

 the gemis Lyca^na. By the Rev. R. P. Mur- 

 ray, M. A. 



[Read 2ncl November, 1874.] 



Lyc(2na Chinensis, n. sp. (PI. X. fig. 5.) 



Wings brown above, Avitli a conspicuous submarginal 

 orange band, equally marked on both wings, and a fiiint 

 black streak closing cell. In the forewing the orange 

 band is divided by the veins into almost square spots : in 

 the hindwing the band is composed of a series of con- 

 tiguous crescents, seated upon a row of black spots. 

 Pringe white, interrupted by brown. 



Underside : pale grey-broAvn, the orange band as con- 

 spicuous as above, continuous in both wiugs. Foreicing : 

 no spot between base and disco-cellular spot. Beyond 

 middle is a discal row of seven spots, twice bent at a right 

 angle, so that the sixth is immediately below the disco- 

 cellular spot : the costal spot is small and indistinct. All 

 these spots are white-ringed. The orange band is edged 

 on both sides by a row of spots, the innermost row con- 

 sisting of larger, but less well-defined spots than the 

 outer. 



Hindicing : a basal row of four spots, a disco-cellular 

 spot, and a discal row of eight spots, much curved and 

 angidated, all white-ringed. The orange band is edged 

 as on forewing by rows of spots, but in this case the spots 

 of the outer row are larger than those of the inner. In 

 both wings the fringe, which is spotted, is preceded by 

 a narrow black line. 



Expands 1" 3'". 



Hub. — North China. 



This very distinct species is (judging from the marking3 

 of the underside) most nearly allied to Li/c Pijlaon, I ., 

 while the upper side reminds one strongly of L. Astrarche, 

 Bgstr. (more commonly known as L. Medon or Agestis). 



TRANS. ENT. SOC. 



1874._PAUT IV. (i)i:c.) nn 



