234 L. de Niceville— Ow a Neiv Gemis of Butterflies. [No 3, 1899.] 



On a neio Genus of B utterflics from Western China allied to Vanessa. — 

 By LlONKL DE NlC^ViLLE, F.E.S., C.M.Z.S., &c. 



[Received 30th November ; Read 6th December, 1899.] 

 Genus LicLEX, nov. 



Differs from Vanessa^ Fabricius, and Pyrameis, Hiibner, the type of 

 both being Papilio atal^nta, Linnaeus, in liaving the palpi very much 

 shorter, hardly extending in front of the head, the antennas ahso consider- 

 ably shorter, with a larger club, the forewing with the second subcostal 

 nervule given off a little beyond the apex of the discoidal cell instead 

 of before its end, the hindwing with the anal angle rounded instead 

 of pioduced ; otherwise similar to Vanessa. Type, Vanessa livienito'ides, 

 Obertimr. 



Lelex LiMif.NiTOiDES, Obevthiir. 



Vanessa limenito'ides, Oberthiir, Et. d' Ent., vol. xiii, p. 39, pi. ix, fig. 96 (1890) ; 

 id., Leech, Butt. Chiua, Japan, and Corea, vol. i, p. 254 (1892). 



Habitat: Tse-Kou {Oberthiir), Ta-chien-lu (Leech), both Western 

 China. 



I am indebted to M. Charles Oberthiir for the gift of a single 

 male of this remarkable butterfly from Tse-Kou, captured iu 1895 by 

 M. R. P. Dubernard. Mr. Leech wrote of it " As its characters are 

 not exactly those of a Vanessa it is probnble that a new genus will have 

 to be created for the reception of this insect." Not only does it differ 

 widely in the form of the palpi, the length of the antenna with its 

 larger club, and in the neuration of the forewing, but also in its colora- 

 tion, there being no Vanessa except F. atitiopa, Linnaeus, (genus Euvanessa^ 

 Scudder), which is black with cieamy- white markings, the disposition 

 of the markings being, however, wholly different in the two species. 



