﻿NEW SPECIES OP LEPIDOPTERA FROM CHINA. 31 



Callerebia albipuncta, sp. n. 



$ . Primaries blackish brown, outer third paler, towards apex is a large 

 round black patch, enclosing two small white spots encircled with pale 

 fulvous ; below is a brighter fulvous cloud. Secondaries blackish brown, 

 paler along abdominal margin ; towards anal angle is a fulvous-ringed black 

 spot, enclosing a white dot ; fringes tinged with grey. Under surface of 

 primaries red-brown, apex and upper half of outer margin greyish ; bi- 

 pupilated ocellus as above ; secondaries dark brown, traversed by innumer- 

 able irregular wavy lines ; ocellus towards anal angle as above, and there is 

 a white spot in each nervular interspace between it and the costa. Expanse, 

 54 to 60 mm. 



2 . Discal area of primaries suffused with reddish, otherwise similar to 

 male. 



Allied to G. sylvicola, Oberth., and C. pratorum, Oberth. 

 (Etud. d'Ent. xi.), but most closely to the last named ; from both 

 species it may, however, be separated by the series of white 

 spots on under surface of secondaries. 



Several male specimens taken at Chang Yang in July, and a 

 number of both sexes from Ichang Gorge, taken in August. 



This species is fairly constant in the character of marking, 

 but two female examples have the white submarginal spots 

 reproduced on the upper surface of secondaries. One of these 

 specimens has the black patch on primaries pear-shaped, enclosing 

 three white spots, and there is a small ocellus below it, near the 

 outer angle. 



Clerome mrope, sp. n. 



$ . Drab-brown. Primaries darker towards the outer margin ; a con- 

 spicuous tuft of fulvous silky hairs on the interior edge of the median nerve 

 near the base. Under surface brown ; primaries paler along the inner 

 margin with a triangular vitreus patch below the median nerve ; all the 

 wings traversed by three dark reddish brown lines, terminating at the sub- 

 median nervure ; there are six small yellow spots on the primaries before 

 the submarginal line, that nearest the costa punctiform, sometimes absent ; 

 on the secondaries there is a transverse series of five similar spots, the first 

 is near the central line, the fourth and fifth approximate more to the sub- 

 marginal, whilst the second and third are equidistant from either line. 

 Fringes on both surfaces grey-brown, preceded by a slender brownish line. 



? . Colour of male ; outer margin of primaries with a suffused blackish 

 border, broad on costa and tapering towards outer angle ; external margin of 

 secondaries is also suffused with blackisb. The vitreus patch and tuft of 

 hairs are characters pertaining to the male only. Expanse, $ 78 — 89 mm., 

 ? 84— 100 mm. 



A splendid series, taken in June and July, at Ichang. 



This species is closely allied to G. assama, Westw., from 

 Assam and Khasi Hills ; but it is much paler in colour above, 

 whilst beneath the spots are much smaller ; the transverse lines 

 are differently curved, and there is no disposition of the second 

 to unite with the third above anal angle. 



Hestina nigrivena, sp. n. 

 Whitish green ; venation of primaries, and a streak above the submedian 

 nervure, broadly blackish, as also is the median nervure of secondaries and its 



