CHBYSOPEANIN^. 99 



I'appendice caudal est ohtus, mais en dessous tout a fait distinct. Les ailes sont, en 

 dessous, d'un fauve dore un peu rougatre, traversees par trois bandes maculaires 

 communes, extra-cellulaires, descendant du bord anterieur des superieures au bord anal 

 des inferieures ; les deux premieres sont formees de points noir assez gros aux 

 superieures, nettement separes, eclaires interieurement d'un trait bleu violet brillant, 

 plus fins aux inferieures, presque joints, interieurement ornes d'un croissant blanc. La 

 3'^, marginale, et plus accentuee aux inferieures et a peine sensible aux superieures. 

 II y a, en outre, aux superieures deux points noirs, intracellulaires, entoures de violet 

 brillant, et, aux inferieures, trois points alignes dans I'espace basilaire, du bord anterieur 

 au bord anal. De plus, la cellule est close par un trait noir fin, en forme d'aecoladu 

 liseree de blanc. L'abdomen est gris blanchatre en dessous." (Oberthiir.) 



" Like C. pang, Obthiir., but the band of black spots hardly showing through the 

 forewinof. Below the difference is well marked on the forewins;. The outer row of 

 spots which, like those of C. pang, are black edged with blue inside, except the discal 

 ones, which are ringed with blue, does not extend to the costa ; the next row is parallel 

 to the outer one, not directed inwards, as in pang, the third and narrowest discal spot 

 is absent ; on the hindwing, the transverse white band is only represented by a faint 

 trace of spots. The interspaces are not red, and the black spots near the base not 

 ringed with white. Nearly allied to C. pang, of which I have two specimens from 

 M. Oberthiir, taken at or near Tatsieulo in East Thibet, many hundreds of miles to 

 the northward. My specimen was taken at Banzan, 3,400 feet, in February, and is a 

 male." (Elwes.) 



Female differs from the male in having a fulvous patch beyond the cell of 

 primaries ; the spots of undersurface are reproduced on these wings and edged 

 internally with brilliant purple : there is a sub-marginal band of lunular fulvous spots 

 edged internally with brilliant purple on the secondaries, and some dots of the latter 

 colour on the disc. Although widely distributed, this does not seem common 

 anywhere. (Leech.) 



Expanse of wings, $ ^ l-j^ inches. 



Habitat. — China, Shan States. 



Distribution. — Oberthiir's type came from Kouy-Tcheon, Elwes' type from Banzan, 

 Shan States, 3,400 feet elevation, Leech records it from Ta-chien-lu, Pu-tsu-fong, Ni- 

 Tou and Chow-pin-sa. We have carefully examined Elwes' type in the B. M. with 

 Leech's Chinese examples of tseng, they undoubtedly represent one and the same 

 species. 



ALLIED CHINESE SPECIES. 



Chnjsyphanus chinenms, Chrysophanus phUeas, var. Chiaensis, Felder, Verh. Zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xii. 

 p. 488 (1862). Habitat, Shanghai, Ningpo, Kiukiang. 



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