RHOPALOCERA FROM FORMOSA. 3 I 5 



Upperside-Forewing. This agrees very closely with Ncope armandii, 

 Oberthür, var. fusca, Leech, (Leech, Butt. China, Japan, Corea, pl. viii, f. 5 

 g , 6 £ , p. 50) as regards markings, the chief difference being that the 

 ochreous yellow markings of fusca are cream coloured in sagittata and 

 that a pale square patch closes the cell. Moreover the forewing is very 

 much narrower and more curved at o uter margin, also darker with a bronze 

 green tint in certain lights on median and basal area ; apex and outer 

 marginal area darker. 



Upperside-Hindwing. This is quite different to that of fusca and 

 seems to resemble more the description of Ncope khasiana, Moore, 

 given by Leech as a synonym of armandii l Oberthür, (Leech, I.e. p. 50), 

 the hind wing of which is ochreous-yellow. The apical extremity of 

 outer margin is rather more produced than in fusca and the wing is 

 cream coloured instead of brown as in fusca. Costal and outer margins 

 as far as apical extremity broadly black brown, tapering off at apical 

 extremity. A discal series of six ocelli with grey pupil, cream coloured 

 iris and ringed exteriorly with grey, the two anal ocelli the largest, 

 the two central ocelli the smallest and most indistinct ; the dark pattern of 

 basal area of underside is plainly reproduced on the upper side and is 

 clothed with long, silky, fuscous hairs ; a bold, dark, sagittate mark outside 

 apex of cell sharply emphasises the reproduction of the basal pattern of 

 underside on the upperside. 



Underside-Forewing. Closely resembles var. fusca, the ochreous- 

 yellow markings being replaced by cream colour ; ocelli same as m fusca ; 

 the shape of the three streaks crossing cell not so zigzag as in fusca. 



Underside-Hindwing. Dark markings of basal pattern are very 

 similar to fusca with a regular, transverse, white fascia parallel to costa 

 dividing the pattern into two and crossing centre of cell ; ocelli similar to 

 but somewhat smaller than those of fusca ; interspaces on inner side of 

 ocelli cream coloured and ochreous brown exteriorly. 



Female. Differs in having the cream coloured spots of upperside of 

 forewing larger and more distinct. 



Expanse. Male 82 millim ; Female 84 millim. 



