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LTCJ^NIDiE. 



Graeser bred the var. latior from larvae found feeding in June on Bhamnus 

 near Cliabaroflva, in Amurland (Berl. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 71). 



Thecla mera. (Plate XXIX. fig. 14, 5 .} 



Thecla mera, i^xi?,on, Cistula Entom. ii. p. 156 (1877); Pryer, Rliop. Nihon. p. 15, 

 pi. iv. fig. 16 (1887). 



" Above dark brown, secondaries produced at the anal angle and with a short outer tail, tlie inner 

 one long, its apex white ; beneath pale brown, both wings crossed beyond the middle hy a 

 fine waved white line, margined with dusky brown on its inner side, divided by the nervures, 

 bent inwards posteriorly, and ending at the abdominal margin ; anal region of secondaries 

 pale orange, with a large black spot between the tails and a row of four smaller ones just 

 above it; anal angle black, speckled with pale blue, a fine white marginal line, and a row of 

 obscure dusky-brown submargiual spots near the apex. Expanse of wings 1| inch. 



" Several specimens taken by Mr. Jonas at Matzabaro, about 200 miles N.W. of Yedo [Tokio]." 

 (Janson, I. c.) ^ 



The type in the National Collection appears to be a female. The male 

 only differs in being blacker and in having a very conspicuous broad short 

 glandular patch on the primaries. 



I have a series from Oiwake and Yesso. Pryer records the species from 

 Nikko and Assama-Yama, and states that it is a scarce insect. 



Thecla w-album. 



Papilio w-ulbam, Kuocli, Hcitr. Ins. ii. p. 85, pi. vi. figs. 1, 2 (1782). 



Thecla w-album, Lang, lJutt. Eur. p. 77, pi. xvii. fig. 3 (1884) ; Pryer, Rliop. Nihon. 



p. 15, pi. iv. fig. 14 (1886). 

 Stri/fHonfentoni, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1881, p. 854; Waterhouse, Aid Identif. 



Ins. ii. pi. cxv. fig. 2. 



"Expands 0-93 to 1-2.5 inch. Hind margin of hind wings scalloped, and witli a small 

 Blender tail. Wings dark blackish brown, the nervures showing a little darker. Fore 

 wings (juite without any pattern. The hind wings have an orange spot at the anal angle ; 

 the tail is tipped with white. Underside :— Tlie colour of all the wings is greyish 

 brown; the foro wings have a narrow white line, somewhat wavy, reaching from tho 

 costa to the inner margin, and ])laccd closer to the hind margin than to the base of (lie wing. 

 The hind wings have a wliito W-sliaped line beginning at the costa and ending at the inner 

 margin ; along the liind margin is a row of brilliant orange crescents, which arc largest near 

 the aniil angle and dccreaHc in size as they approach tho costa. 

 TMrva onisciform, light green, with a ycllowish-l)rown dorsal stripe ; every segment Iius two 

 obli(pic light yellow lines on each side ; tho head is l)lack and retractile. It feeds on the 

 leaves oflhc common elm (Ulmm cmnpesiris), IVojn whence it may be beaten at tho end of 

 Mny and tho beginning of June. I'upa attached to a twig by a belt of silk and also by the 

 full." {Lnn.jJ.r.) 



