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The species is always, as Mr. Fortune has kindly informed me, 

 found in the valleys among the hills. 



Sericinus Fortunei*. (Cat. Lep. B. M. i. pi. 13. fig. 5.) 



The fore wings are yellowish white, with many irregular black 

 spots which vary in size, some of them so placed that they apparently 

 form five bands across the wing ; the external margin is also black. 

 The hind wings also yellowish white, with a basal band and three 

 irregular curved bands of black spots ; the second band from the base 

 is broadest at the anterior angle, and marked with a small crimson 

 spot ; while that portion towards the anal angle is margined exteriorly 

 by an irregular crimson band, which extends from the angle to the 

 fifth nervure ; the third or marginal baud is ornamented on the deep 

 black below the crimson by a series of pale blue lunes. The under 

 surfaces of all the wings are less prominently marked, otherwise they 

 are similar to the upper side, except that on the fore wings there are 

 two crimson spots, one on the baud near the costal area and the other 

 on the posterior margin. 



This species is found, according to Mr. Fortune, on the sides of 

 the hills. 



Mr. Wilson Saunders has obliged me by the loan of a specimen 

 for examination, which presents several differences from those pre- 

 viously noticed. It is rather smaller and the caudal appendages are 

 shorter than in the other three species ; the latter being only about 

 half an inch in length. These with other characters induce me to 

 form it into a species under the name of 



Sericinus TELMONAf. (Cat. Lep. B. M. i. pi. 13. fig. 3.) 



The fore wings ochraceous, with the base black, and the other 

 black markings placed as in S. Montela, though not quite so 

 prominent, but the short band which crosses the wing just beyond 

 the costal area and the spot on the posterior margin are both orna- 

 mented with a small crimson spot. The hind wings have the inner 

 margin black, and are without the basal spot in the costal area ; the 

 crimson band at the anal angle extends, as in S. Fortunei, to the 

 fifth nervure, and like it also the spot on the anterior margin is orna- 

 mented by a crimson mark, which is more equally placed with the 

 commencement of the crimson band that advances to the anal angle, 

 than in the other species ; the black space at the anal angle is less 

 in size, but is furnished with blue lunes. The under surface of the 

 fore wings is marked Uke the upper side. That of the hind wings is 

 also similar to the upper side, but the black spots on the anterior 

 margin are both ornamented with crimson ; the lengthened crimson 

 band is marked between the second and third nervures from the anal 



* Sericinus fasciatus, Brem. & Grey, Beitr. Schm. des Nord. China, p. 5. Since 

 this paper was read, Mr. Fortune has sent a series of specimens vvliich show that 

 this is the female of the preceding. 



t The female of this species is described as Sericinus Greyi, Brem. & Grey, 

 Beitr. Sclnn. des Nord. China, p. 6. 



