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larger. The discal band of hindwing is also much broader than in 

 the figure where it is narrow and attenuated. Leech however observes 

 that the width of the bands is variable in both sexes. 



Expanse. Male 94 millimetres, female 98 to 102 millimetres. 



Distribution Western and Central China, July and August up to 

 7000 feet ; Formosa. 



Occurs in Formosa from 2000 to 4000 feet and I have seen a 

 specimen at an altitude of 7000 feet. 



Recorded by Miyake in his " Catalogue of the Butterflies of 

 Formosa " No. 55 and in a " List of a Collection of Lepidoptera 

 from Formosa " Annotationes Zool. Jap. Vol. VI. pt. 2. p. 63. No. 48 

 (1907). 



11. Euripus charonda, Hewitson. 



Diadema charonda, Hewitson, Exot. Butt. Hi, {Diadema), pl. 1 . figs 

 2, 3, (1863). . 



Euripus charonda, Pryer, Rhop. Nihou. p. 22, pi. 3, fig. 6 (1888). 

 Leech, Butt. China, Japan, Corca, 1, p. 14S, pi. 16, fig. 8. var. 

 {1892-93). 



Euripus corcanus, Leech, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond, iS8j, p. 418, pi. 36, 

 fig- 1 , ■ 



In the collection of the Kokugo Gakkö, (National Language School), 

 at Taihoku there is a specimen of a species labelled Euripus charonda, 

 which Mr. Nagasawa, who has charge of the collection, states is one 

 of three specimens which were taken in the neighbourhood of Taihoku. 

 Mr. Nagasawa informs me that one specimen was- taken by him in a 

 bamboo grove at Manka, near Taihoku ami that one of the school 

 students caught two other specimens in the neighbourhood of Shinte, 

 near Taihoku. One was given to Professor Matsumura and another 

 was presented to the Imperial University collection at Tokyo. Through 

 the courtesy of Mr. Nagasawa I had an opportunity of examining the 

 specimen in the Kokugo Gakkö and I have also received a coloured 



