360 



LTC^NID^. 



by a -white line internally bordered witli black, this line is divided by the nervules into eight 

 portions, the lower set inwards ; marginal line is white, bordered inwardly with blackish, 

 and preceded on the submarginal area by a series of black lunulated marks, bordered with 

 whitish and extending from inner margin to just beyond the middle of the wing : secondaries 

 have a white line, interrupted by the nervules and forming an open W before terminating on 

 abdominal margin ; anal half of the outer marginal area reddish, enclosing a large velvety- 

 black spot placed in first median interspace and a bluish patch in submedian interspace ; anal 

 lobe velvety black ; between the reddish colour and costa there is a scries of blackish spots 

 bordered with white ; marginal line white. 

 Female rather browner than the male above and paler beneath ; markings similar on the under 

 surface. 



Expanse, 40 millim., 5 46 millim. 



Var. fixseni, var. nov. (Plate XXIX. figs. 2 5,3c?.) In this form the sexes have, on the 

 upper surface, a fulvous patch on the disc of the primaries, intersected by the nervules and 

 some fulvous spots above anal angle. All these markings are much larger in the female than 

 in the male. The under surface is typical. 



This species is distinguished from T. w-album by its larger size, longer 

 tails, and more conspicuous red patches on anal lobe. On the under surface 

 the white line of primaries is not angled inwards as in w-allum, and the 

 angles of the W on secondaries are rounded ; the reddish band is broader and 

 does not extend along the outer margin beyond the second median nervule. 



From T. grandis, Felder, it is separated on the upper surface by the more 

 distinct sexual mark of the male, and on the under surface by the much less 

 conspicuous black spots on submarginal area ; the spots in T. grandis are 

 very large, well defined, and form a series from costa to inner margin on all 

 the wings. 



Fixscn's type of T. eximia was from Corea and that of Staudinger's affinis 

 from Amurland. I have received specimens from Moupin, Wa-shan, and 

 ■\Va-ssu-kow in Western China, and Dr. Staudingcr lias s(mt me a female 

 specimen of affinis taken by Hertz in the neighbourhood of Pckin, which 

 agrees exactly with some of my Western Chinese specimens of T. eximia. 



Thecla grandis. 



Thocla (frond'is, V\:U\i\r, Wion. cnt. Mon. vi. p. 21 (18G2). 



'I'hrria rntnn, Ilewitson, III. Dinni. Tjcp. [Lycainida), p. 11 1., pi. xlii. fig. 153 (1869). 



" Alifi Hupra fuscis, posticis liiic;i nmrf^iiiMli inlcrnipta alba, omiiilms su])tus nuilto pallidioribus, 

 Htrign pone dlHCum alba angusi a, fu.sco intus cincta niargincm iiitornuiu versus valde rcfracta, 

 irnnuIiH extcrioribus nigricantil)ns all)id() cinclis, in ])()sti( is lunulis auraiitiucis magiiitudino 

 infTOHOonlibim udnatiH, liis macula inter ranios priniore.s mudiunos altoraqiio aiiali atris, tcrtia 

 intcrjcc'a ghmca. 



