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faintly showing through from above : on the secondaries is a transverse 

 series of black lunules ; those in the first subcostal and second median 

 interspaces are followed by black spots edged internally with orange. 

 Expanse, $ 82—90 mm., ? 92—98 mm. 



A splendid series taken at Chia-Kou-Ho, in July. 

 In a few examples there is, on the under surface of primaries, 

 an orange-bordered black spot in the second median interspace. 



Sephisa peinceps, ? . 



Apatura princeps, Fxsn. Rom. sur Lep. iii. p. 289, pi. xiii. 

 fig. 7 a, b (1887). 



Apatura cauta, Leech, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1887 (p. 417, pi. xxxv., 

 fig. 2). 



The female agrees with the male, but the wings are rather 

 more ample. This sex has not been previously mentioned. 



Among the specimens of this species lately received by me 

 are three female examples from Chang-Yang which have nearly all 

 the fulvous markings of the male replaced by white; the only spots 

 of the typical colour are the two in discal cell of primaries and 

 one on costa of secondaries, whilst below the median nervure of 

 primaries there is a bluish longitudinal streak instead of a fulvous 

 one. In size, shape, number, and position of the spots and 

 dashes, this form agrees exactly with the female type, and, as the 

 difference is one of colour only, I propose the name of albimacula 

 for this variety. 



Apatura pallas, sp. n. 



<?. Blackish brown, with black, white, and pale fulvous markings. 

 Primaries thickly sprinkled with fulvous scales on basal third, beyond which 

 is a transverse series of four fulvous spots preceded by an irregular black 

 band, the spot nearest the costa is darker than the others, and is followed by 

 a large triangular black spot ; there are three fulvous spots at outer extremity 

 of discal cell, and below these a fulvous spot in each median interspace, — 

 that in the first has a whitish centre, the other is preceded by a round black 

 spot, before the apex there are two whitish spots (the upper one is round), 

 the spots forming the submarginal series are fulvous, but not well defined 

 towards costa. Secondaries : — Basal half clothed with silky grey-brown 

 hairs, and limited by a fulvous transverse interrupted band ; the inner portion 

 of this band becomes indistinct after passing the second median nervule, but 

 the outer, though most broken up, is continued to the first median nervule, 

 enclosing a well-defined black spot in nervular interspace ; a black band, 

 broad towards costa and tapering to anal angle, precedes a fulvous submar- 

 ginal band which is intersected by the nervules, as also is a broad fulvous 

 line on outer margin. Fringes white between the nervules. Under surface 

 pale olive-green ; the markings of primaries are as above, but the fulvous 

 gives place to white or whitish, and the black spot in second median inter- 

 space is encircled with fulvous : secondaries pale olive-green ; basal area 

 washed with greyish, and bounded by an olive-brown transverse tapering 

 band ; from the inner edge of this band, which is broadly bordered with 

 silvery white, a spur runs inwards and upwards above the median nervure ; 

 there is a well-defined ocellus on the second median interspace, and above it 

 is a series of silvery white spots, the interrupted submarginal band is of 

 the same colour, as also a fainter line which traverses the pale olive-brown 

 outer margin. Expanse, 39 mm. 



