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A LIST OF BUTTERFLIES COLLECTED BY CAPTAIN 

 F. M. BAILEY IN WESTERN CHINA, SOUTH- 

 EASTERN TIBET. AND THE MISHMI 

 HILLS, 191L 



BY 



Richard South, F. E, S. 



With the exception of some twenty-eight species, the butterflies 

 enumerated in the following list (about two hundred and forty 

 species) were collected by Captain Bailey last year when journeying 

 through a previouslj" unsurveyed portion of South-E astern Tibet 

 and the Mishmi Country. 



The collection as a A^-hole is of very great interest, but of course 

 it is to the butterflies from the newly explored region that scientific 

 value more especiallj^ attaches. 



A number of species neAv to science, and some new forms of des- 

 cribed species, were obtained. In man}^ cases our knowledge of 

 the distribution of species, described from Western China, is much 

 extended. 



As some of the localities mentioned may not be shown on maps 

 it may be well to state that between Jiine 6th and June lOtli 

 Captain Bailej^- was East of the Mekong, marching from Batang to 

 Yer-ka-lo. From June 11 th to 15th he was between the Mekong 

 and Salween, marching from Yer-ka-lo to Menkong. His route in 

 South-East Tibet, June 16th to Jul}^ 7th, was Menkong, Drowa 

 Gompa, Sanga Chu-Dzong, Shiuden Gompa, back to Drowa Gompa, 

 thence down to Rima. From July 8 to Augast 7 he was in the 

 Mishmi countr}*, Rima to Sadij^a. 



Family— NY MPHALID^ . 



Sub-Family = — SATYRiNiE. 

 1. Neope simulants. 



Neope simidans, Leech, Entom. xxiv., Suppl. p. 66 (1891); Butt., China, 

 Japan and Corea, p. 49, pi. viii, jfig. 2, S (1892). 



Two male specimens. 



Drowa Gompa (10,00 ft.), June 21 and 22. 



Var. eonfusa, nov. 



Similar to typical simulans, Leech, but the general brown colour is some- 

 what redder in hue ; the black markings, especially those of forewings, are 

 more or less obscured, and the yellow markings are more ochreous in tint ; 

 the lower yellow spot on the forewings is completely divided, and there is 

 an ochreous spot at the outer extremity of cell of hindwings. On the 

 underside the yellow spot on forewings is not black centred ; the pattern 

 on the hindwings is less clearly defined, the neuration is not paler, and the 

 second ocellus is less elongate. 



Expanse 70 mm. 



One male specimen. 



Liu Yang (7,000 ft.). May 9. 



