﻿NEW SPECIES OF LEPIDOPTERA PROM CHINA. 29 



blackish line ; fringes white, variegated with blackish at the extremities ot 

 nervules. Under surface pale ochreous, tinged with olivaceous ; two brown 

 bars in discoidal cell of primaries ; central transverse line brown, oblique, 

 with three deep indentations, and edged towards costa with yellowish ; 

 some pale spots near costa precede a suffused brownish marginal line. 

 Secondaries with a grey-brown pale-edged band near the base, extending from 

 costa to median nervure, beyond is a brown suffused line curving from costa 

 to abdominal margin, and emitting a spur to the median nervure ; central 

 band of unequal width and edged externally with blackish, followed by a 

 broad ochreous marginal band in which is placed a series of six ocelli, the 

 third and fourth are rather indistinct, and all more or less completely 

 encircled with lilacine white ; an antimarginal line of the same colour edged 

 on each side with black, and swelling out into lunules opposite the last three 

 ocelli ; fringes white, chequered with brownish at extremities of nervules. 



• ? . Paler ; markings of primaries above same as on under surface of 

 male, but with the addition of two small ocelli below apex. Expanse : 

 male, 70 mm. ; female, 80 mm. 



Four specimens (two males and one female, Ichang, July ; 

 one male, Chang Yang, July). 



Allied to L. nigrifascia, but may be at once separated by the 

 different character of central band of primaries and the larger 

 ocelli. 



Neope ramos a, sp. n. 

 $. Closely allied to S. goscMevitschii, Men., from Japan, but the 

 ground colour is dark chocolate-brown, the spots on primaries are smaller, 

 nearly orbicular, pale yellowish buff in cokrar, and each pair between the 

 median nervules are separated by a quadrate blackish spot. Secondaries 

 have two pale yellowish buff longitudinal patches and three spots ; _ the 

 former each enclose an obscure oceUus and the latter are arranged in a 

 longitudinal series ; below are three black spots decreasing in size to the anal 

 angle, the first is partiaUy, the second distinctly, and the third indistinctly 

 surrounded with pale yellowish buff. Under surface blackish, variegated 

 with white and yellowish buff; primaries have a white-centred black spot 

 enclosed in a wbitish ring near apex, and below this is a nearly square 

 white spot followed by two pairs of yellowish buff spots as above : secondaries 

 have three basal spots as in S. goschkevitschii, but they are paler in colour 

 and the lower one is much larger ; the central band is greyish, very irregular 

 in shape and bordered on each side with white. Expanse, 90 mm. 



Two males taken in June and July, at Chang Yang. 



Neope romanovi, sp. n. 

 $ . Chocolate-brown with olive reflections and a metallic green tinge 

 in certain lights ; venation not ochreous, there are two transverse series of 

 small yellowish spots on outward half of primaries, but those towards costa 

 are ill-defined. Secondaries have a marginal series of large black spots, each 

 spot edged internally and externally with yellowish except that at outer 

 angle, which is bordered on its hinder edge only. Under surface pale brown 

 tinged with violet-grey. Primaries broadly streaked with ochreous grey 

 along the inner margin ; central brown band very narrow, bidentate near 

 costa, then gently curved, emitting a short projection before its termination 

 near anal angle ; four antimarginal ocelli, the second almost filled up with 

 white ; two brown sinuated lines parallel with outer margin. Secondaries 

 with three yellowish brown ringed spots at the base ; the central band is 

 grey -brown with a triple edging of brown, yellowish, and dark brown ; seven 

 very distinct antimarginal ocelli. 



