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markings, as also the red-browu submarginal band, agree with those of 

 L. astrarche, but the bands in mandschurica are less interrupted, and never 

 dentated on their inner edge, as they always are in astrarche ; mandschurica 

 has these bands bordered with shortly curved blackish lunules, and the bands 

 themselves are farther from the outer margin of the wings ; the marginal area 

 is broadly grey, and is traversed by a series of black spots. The diffuse white 

 streak found on the under surface of the secondaries in L. astrarche is always 

 absent in mandschurica, and the sixth black sj)ot of central series is directly 

 beneath the discoidal spot. 



A comparison of Staudinger's description of mandschurica with Murray's 

 figure and description of L. chincnsis, which was probably also from the 

 neighbourhood of Pekin, will leave little doubt that both refer to the same 

 species. 



Appears to occur only in North China. 



Genus PHENGARIS. 

 Phengaris, Doherty, .Tonrn. Asiat. Soc. Beng. Ix. pt. ii. p. 36 (1891). 



" The splendid Chinese butterfly Lyccena atroguttata, Oberthiir, deserves 

 to be placed in a separate genus or subgenus, distinguished from Lycceoia by 

 the upper discocellular vein of the hind wing being short and angled out- 

 wardly, the lower discocellular meeting the median vein opposite its second 

 forking. 



" This butterfly is certainly the finest of the subfamily, unless the danis 

 grouj) of Cyaniris be excepted. I was not able to detect any odour about it, 

 but it has all the air of a protected species. I often saw it in the meadoAvs 

 of the Kutclia Naga countiy, Naga Hills, from 6000 to 8000 feet elevation, 

 flying very slowly, and visible from a great distance, so that I caught a good 

 number, in spite of its rarity. The character of its markings, round black 

 8i)()ts on a ])iir(' wliito ground, is very remarkable. It is hard to avoid 

 thinking Tajuria maculata, Hew., a mimic of this species, though it seems 

 to live at a lower ehnation, and further to the westward. Taraka hamada is 

 somewhat similarly marked, and is obviously ])r()tected. 



'• I have taken tlie nanu; Phcnr/aris, wliicli means a daughter of the moon, 

 from the iiKKh-rn Greek." {JJoherty, 1. c.) 



