﻿NEW SPECIES OF RHOPALOCERA PROM CHINA. 189 



and form rings ; before submarginal line is a series of black spots, each with 

 a centre slightly paler than ground colour. 



? . Eather paler than the male ; base of inner margin of all the wings 

 suffused with greenish ; there are some spots and a transverse line termi- 

 nating in a large subquadrate spot in cell of secondaries. 



Antennae of the male brown, club black with fulvous apex ; of the female, 

 as in same sex of A. childreni. Expanse, $• 84 mm., ? 87 mm. 



Two specimens of each sex, Ta-Chien-Lu, in July. 



In size and in the ground colour of upper surface this species 

 closely resembles my specimens of A. childreni from N.W. India, 

 but they are much smaller and paler than specimens I have from 

 N.W. China; these last measure, <? 94 mm., ? 110 mm. 



Grapta gigantea, sp. n. 



? . Primaries fulvous, thickly sprinkled with black scales at the base ; 

 costal margin spotted with black and yellow ; discal and costal black markings 

 arranged as in G. c-album, but larger ; external margin broadly black, inter- 

 sected by two fulvous waved transverse lines. Secondaries fulvous, thickly 

 dusted with black scales at the base and lower half of the wing ; below a 

 large black patch on the disc is a blackish cloud extending to abdominal fold, 

 and beyond is a broad black transverse band, the outer edge of which forms 

 a series of points on the nervules : external margin broadly black, intersected 

 by two fulvous lines as in primaries. Under surface ochreous-brown, marbled 

 with pale violet-brown, and intersected by indistinct black lines ; before the 

 external margin of aU the wings are two dentated black lines, — these are 

 interrupted by the nervules, and the space between them is leaden grey ; 

 preceding these lines, on the primaries, is a series of eight dots, the third 

 seventh and eighth with pale centres ; on the disc of primaries is a silvery 

 white spot placed on the third median nervule ; the silvery white mark on 

 secondaries is large, and in shape represents three sides of a square. 

 Expanse, 72 mm. 



One female example taken at Ta-Chien-Lu, in July, at an 

 elevation of 7500 feet. 



This species is allied to G. c-album, Linn., but it is much 

 larger, and the margins are more decidedly indented. The 

 mark on under surface of secondaries is very like the same 

 character in some of my specimens of G. c-album from Japan, but 

 in the marbling of the under surface of all the wings G. gigantea 

 more nearly resembles V. charonia, and it also agrees with that 

 species in having a white spot on under surface of primaries, — a 

 character not usual in the Vanessidse. 



Helcyra superba, sp. n. 



Closely allied to H. hemina, Hewitson, but it differs from that species in 

 the position and size of the black markings on upper surface - Nearly the 

 whole of the apical half of the primaries is black, and this has its inner edge 

 more deeply indented ; the discal spots are two in number, but the larger is 

 broadly linear. On the secondaries there are eight black spots, arranged one 

 below the other in a transverse series ; the second of these is the largest, and 

 the first, third, fifth and sixth are often faint and sometimes entirely elimi- 

 nated : the submarginal line is broad and dentate throughout from costa to 

 anal angle. Fringes white, preceded by a narrow fuliginous grey line. 

 Under surface shining white, apical and discal markings of primaries 



