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much paler, the spots as on the upperside, and both wings with elongated marginal 

 spots in pairs in each interspace, sometimes very obscure. 



Expanse of wings, f $ 1^ to l/g inches. 



Habitat. — Assam, China, Japan. 



Distribution. — Elwes records it from the Khasia Hills ; we also have it from 

 the same locality ; also from China and from Nikko in Japan. The Assam specimens 

 are a little smaller than the others, but otherwise do not specifically differ. 



CHINESE AND JAPANESE ALLIED SPECIES. 



Awjiades venata, Hesperia venata, Bremer and Grey, Sohmett. N. China's, p. 11, pi. 3, fig. 5 (1853). 



Habitat, China, Japan, Corea. 

 Aiigiades ochracea, Pamphila ochracea, Bremer, Bull. Acad. Pet. iii. p. 473 (1861); id. Lep. Ost. Sib. 



p. 33, pi. i. fig. 11 (1864). Augiades ochracea, Elwes and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, 



p. 248, pi. 24, fig. 60 (genitalia). Habitat, Japan, Amurland, Island of Askold. 

 Augiades houddJia, Pamphila bouddha, Mabille, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1876, p. hi. Augiades bouddha, 



Leech, Butt, of China, etc. ii. p. 603, pi. 41, fig. 7, (J , 14, ? (1893). Habitat, Moupin, China. 

 Augiades selas, Pamphila selas, Mabille, Pet. Nouv. ii. p. 233 (1878). Habitat, Chinese Thibet. 

 Augiades ruJcuchina, Pamphila rukuchina, Butler, Cist. Ent. ii. p. 28.5 (1878). Hesperia rukuchina, 



Pryer, Rhop. Niphon, p. 34, pi. 10, fig. 16a, (? , b, ? (1889). Habitat, Japan. 

 Augiades herculea, Pamphila herculea, Butler, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1881, p. 140. Habitat, Nikko, 



Japan. 

 Augiades thihetana, Pamphila subhyalina var. thibetana, Oberthiir, Etud. d'Ent. xi. p. 28, pi. 6, 



fig. 45 (1886). Habitat, West and Central China. 

 Augiades cratseis, Leech, Butt, of China, etc. ii. p. 603, pi. 41, figs. 9, (^,11, ? (1893). Habitat, 



Omeishan. 

 Augiades consors, Leech, I.e. p. 604, pi. 41, fig. 10, 9 (1893). Habitat, Moupin. 

 Augiades syJvanoides, Leech, I.e. p. 605, pi. 41, fig. 4, ^ (1893). Habitat, W. China. 

 Augiades similis, Leech, I.e. p. 605, pi. 41, fig. 6, (J (1893). Habitat, W. China. 

 Augiades majuscula, Elwes and ^Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 249, pi. 19, fig. 21, ^, and 



pi. 25, fig. 61 (genitalia). Habitat, China. 



Genus CUPITHA. 



Cupifha, Moore, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1884, p. 47. Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 64 (1891) ; id. Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. 1893, p. Ill ; id. Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, p. 432. Elwes and Edwards, 

 Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 245. 



Forewlng, vein 12 reaches costa before the end of cell ; cell about two-tliirds the 

 length of the costa ; vein 3 emitted about one-eighth before the lower end of cell, 

 2 from the middle ; costa arched at the base, then nearly straight to the apex, which 

 is sub-acute, outer margin convex, about as long as the hinder margin, a short tuft of 

 hair in the male attached to the underside close to the origin of vein 1. Ilindicin;/, 



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