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Distribution. Eastern coast of China, (Shanghai and Hongkong), 

 to the Western Himalayas; Formosa. 

 Expanse. 46 to 48 millimetres. 



33. Zephyrus scintillans, Leech. 



Var. taiwanus, Wilem in, 

 Zephyrus scintillans, Leech, Butt. China, Japan, Corca, p. Jj6, pi. 

 xxvii, figs. JO ?, // % (18Ç2-Ç4). 



Zephyrus taiwanus, Wileman, Ann. Zoo!. Jap. Vol. VI, part 5, p. 

 324., A r o. 16, December, iqoS. 



Collection Numbers, 83, 159, 160. Two male specimens ; Jujimichi, 

 (Arisan district), June, 1908, 5000 feet ; four female specimens, 

 Jujimichi, September, 22, 1906 ; Arisan, July, 7300 feet. 



In Annotationes Zoologicae Japonenses, Vol. VI, part 5, p. 324. 

 No. 16, December, 1908 I described the female of Zephyrus 

 taizvanus and remarked that if the male of taiwanus were captured 

 it might happen to be identical with Z. scintillans. Leech. Two 

 males of Z. taiwanus, which have since then been taken in the Arisan 

 district, differ in several minor points from scintillans, but not 

 enough to warrant the retention of taiwanus as a distinct species. It 

 should, I think, be regarded merely as a local variety of scintillans. 



Description of male taizvanus. (No. 83). Colour of upperside of 

 rather a deeper golden green tinge than in Leech's figure of male 

 scintillans ; outer margins of the upperside, fore and hindwings more 

 narrowly black, costa of hindwing about the same as in scintillans ; 

 towards anal angle is a pale blue submarginal line, (as in scintillans), 

 which Leech remarks is a character occurring only in Z. scintillans 

 and Z. orientalis. 



Underside. Colour as in scintillans ; discoidal bars on all wings 

 very faintly present ; discal band of forewing thinly white, slightly 

 interrupted and curved from costa inwards to third median nervule, 

 not transverse as in scintillans ; in another specimen the discal band 



