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" Ningpo. — Unicum specimen pcssime consorvatum ante nos habcmus. Tortia fere parte majus 

 est quam Th. spini, "Wion. Verz., et ab omnibus specicbus europoeis costa alarum anti- 

 carum omnino convexa ramo ultimo subcostal! vix deflexo in costa) apicem excurrento 

 caudisquo longioribus discvepat." {Felder, I. c.) 



Felder does not mention the sex of his type, but Dr. Kogenhofer has been 

 good enough to send me a beautifully executed figure of the specimen, and 

 from this it is distinctly seen to be a female. 



The male differs from the female in having the ground-colour darker and a 

 ■well-defined sexual mark on the primaries, similar in shape to that of T. spini. 

 The different formation of the sexual character will in itself serve to distin- 

 guish this species from T. w-alhum. 



Hewitson also describes the female of this species under the name of 

 eretria, as follows : — 



^'■Female. Dark brown. Posterior wing with two tails (one very short); the outer margin 

 dark brown, with a submarginal line and the fringe white ; three or four spots near the anal 

 angle ; the lobe black, marked by a small scarlet spot. Underside rufous. Both wings 

 crossed beyond the middle by a linear white band, bordered inwardly with brown ; both 

 wings with a baud of dark brown spots, bordered on both sides with white, bisected on the 

 posterior wing by bands of orange ; a large space of orange at the anal angle marked with 

 a large black spot between the tails, the lobes black, the space between them brown irrorated 

 with white ; both wings with the margin brown ; a submarginal Hue and the fringe white. 



" Expanse l-j-^^- inch. 



" In the Collection of the British Museum, from N. China." {Hewitson, I. c.) 



I have examples of both sexes of T. grandis from Kiukiang. It appears 

 to be a scarce species, and, so far, has only been recorded from North China, 

 Ningpo, and Kiukiang. 



Thecla pruni. 



Papilio pruni, Linnaeus, Faun. Suec. p. 283 (1761) ; Esper, Schmett. i. 1, pi. xix. fig. 3, 



pi. xxxix. fig. 1 a; Hiibner, Eur. Schmett. i. figs. 386, 387. 

 Thecla pruni, Lang, Butt. Eur. p. 80, pi. xviii. fig. 1 (1884); Pryer, Ehop. Nihon, 



p. 15, pi. iv. fig. 15 (1887). 



" Expands 0*87 to 1*12 inch. "Wings brownish black. The fore wings in the female, and sometimes 

 in the male, exhibit faint traces of a brownish-orange band running parallel to the hind 

 margin. The hind wings have a short tail somewhat like that of T. spini, and parallel to 

 the hind margin is a row of well-defined semilunar spots of an orange-brown colour, 

 decreasing as they approach the costa. The colour of the underside is paler than that above. 

 The fore wings have a bluish-white interrupted line running from the costa to the inner 

 margin. The hind wings have a similar line which does not assume a W-shape. The hind 

 margin has an orange band bordered with bluish white, and having a row of black spots, one 



