﻿SfEW SPECIES OF LEPTDOPTERA FROM CHINA. 35 



Under surface chocolate-brown; markings white, streaked with ochreous- 

 grey, and clouded with whitish along the costa ; discal streak broad, clear 

 and distinct, with a large blackish patch below ; apical spots hardly 

 separated ; spot in first median interspace invades the space above and 

 unites below with the enlarged pair on inner margin ; submarginal line 

 white tinged with violet, interrupted towards apex by two longitudinal 

 streaks of the ground colour, and preceded by a chocolate-brown band, 

 which is narrowly edged inwardly with blackish grey, and intersected by a 

 transverse series of pale lunules : secondaries with basal, central, and sub- 

 marginal bands ; the first traverses the wing from base to costal nerve, 

 where it is cut into by the ground colour ; the second is bordered externally 

 with blackish grey, followed by ochreous-grey ; the third is tinged with 

 violet, preceded by an interrupted band of the ground colour, bordered with 

 ochreous-grey, and followed by a series of lunules, also of the ground 

 colour, edged externally with whitish. Fringes chequered black and white. 

 Expanse, 56 mm. 



One male specimen taken in July at Chang Yang. 

 Closely allied to N. armandia, Oberth., but differs from that 

 species on the upper surface in the broader discal streak, closer 

 proximity of the apical spots, and pale submarginal band of 

 primaries ; also in the broader central and uninterrupted sub- 

 marginal bands of secondaries, whilst beneath there are several 

 points of difference. 



Neptis thisbe. 

 Neptis thisbe, Men. Bull. Acad. Pet. xvii. p. 214 (1859) ; 

 Schrenck's Eeisen, ii. p. 26, t. 2, fig. 9 (1859) ; Elwes, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1881, p. 894. 

 An extensive and somewhat variable series from Chang 

 Yang, where the species appears to be on the wing from June to 

 August. 



Var. themis. — Fringes of primaries almost wholly white at the apex, 

 and black from the fifth subcostal nervule to below first discoidal nervule ; 

 there is no trace of fulvous on the outer margin of secondaries. On the 

 under surface of primaries the spot between discoidal nervules is large, round, 

 and without a trace of marking below it in next interspace ; the central band 

 of secondaries terminates in a large white spot between the subcostal 

 nervules, and there are no markings in the interspace above or between the 

 band and discal streak, which in this form is distinctly white. 



Three examples (two males, one female). 



Var. thetis. — Identical with var. themis above, but beneath there is a 

 white mark in interspace below the outer round spot of primaries ; the discal 

 streak and submarginal band of secondaries are merely fragmentary ; the 

 basal and terminal portions of the former only remain, and of the latter 

 there are some traces towards outer angle. There is also a noticeable 

 absence of brown clouding on secondaries, and the brown band posterior to 

 the white central one is very narrow. 



Four examples (three males, one female). 



There are intermediates between each of these forms and 

 the type. 



Neptis antilope, sp. n. 



Black, with a slight brownish tinge ; markings yellow. Discal streak of 

 primaries obtusely pointed, two oblong spots and a dot above towards apex, 



