﻿'2(\ THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



NEW SPECIES OF LEPIDOPTERA FROM CHINA. 

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



The following are the descriptions of some of the more 

 important of the new species captured by Mr. Pratt, who 

 collected for me in the neighbourhood of Ichang, Central China, 

 during the season of 1888. I regret that I am unable to figure 

 them at present, but I hope to do so before long ; and, in the mean- 

 time, I can only say that I shall always be most happy to show 

 the types to anyone who takes an interest in the fauna of China. 



Zethera sagitta, sp. n. 

 Creamy white ; neuration, apex, and margins of primaries black ; some 

 black scales along the upper portion of discoidal cell, which is partially 

 divided by a black bar across its centre, a black wavy subrnarginal band 

 extending to the second median branch, and a zigzag black line before the 

 outer margin : secondaries have the submedian and median nerve and 

 branch broadly black, but the other nerves are only narrow, a black zigzag 

 line on the outer margin forms a series of arrow-heads, of which the veins 

 represent the shafts. On the under surface the colour is rather more yellow, 

 and the venation, except median and branches, narrowly blackish, the lines 

 of the upper surface only faintly reproduced. Expanse, 78 — 90 mm. 



Several specimens, including one example of the female, from 

 Chang Yang, taken in June. 



This species is allied to Z.hestioides, Feld., from the Philippines. 



Melanakgia halimede. 



Arge halimede, Men. Bull, de l'Acad. xvii. p. 216 ; Schrenck's 

 Reisen, p. 37, t. iii., fig. 6 $ , 7 ? . 



Melanargia halimede, var. meridionalis, Feld. Wein. Ent. Mon. 

 vi. p. 29 (1862); Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc, 1889, p. 101. 



Melanargia halimede, Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1881, p. 903; 

 Leech, 1. c, 1887, p. 425. 



An extensive series from Chang Yang, taken in July. 



The majority of the specimens are more or less of the typical 

 form of the species ; some of the examples agree with the speci- 

 mens figured by Menetries ; others have the well-defined black 

 bands on the upper, and ocelli on the under, surfaces, noticed by 

 him. None of the specimens are, however, as dark as the palest 

 example from Japan. 



One form, of which there are several examples, is so very con- 

 spicuous that I have ventured to describe and give it a varietal name. 



Var. Montana. — Central band very narrow, and the outer border is only 

 faintly indicated, whilst on the secondaries the black markings are absent, 

 excepting slight traces of a ring in the first median interspace, and a slender 

 dentate subrnarginal line. 



Lethe occulta, sp. n. 



Allied to M. oculatissima, Pouj. (Ann. Ent. Soc. Fr., 1885, p. xxiv.), but 

 much darker brown, the spot at inner angle of primaries is without white 



