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fore wing similar to those in T. spin?', ? ab. hjnceus, and ilicis, ab. cerri, and 

 snggests for this form the r\?Lme fulva or fidwfenestrata. 



Standinger's types are from Amurland, and he also records this species 

 from Japan ; he has since informed me that on further examination he 

 considers the Japanese specimens to be referable to T. priini, but adds that 

 he has an undoubted female of T. ■priinoides from the Altai. 



Thecla rubicundula. (Plate XXIX. fig. 8, ? .) 



Thecia rubicunduhi, Leech, Entomologist^ xxiii. p. 40 (1890). 



Female. Fuliginous brown. Primaries wit"h a discal reddish-orange suffusion. The tail of 

 secondaries hardly darker, narrowly tipped with wliite ; fringes grey. Under surface brown : 

 outer margin of primaries broadly tinged with reddish orange ; central transverse line while, 

 bordered internally with dark brownish ; there are some indications of a submarginal series 

 of black dots : central transverse line of secondaries white, bordered internally with dark 

 brownish, and bidentated before reaching the abdominal margin ; outer margin broadly 

 bordered with reddish orange, and preceded by a submarginal series of small black spots, 

 edged internally with bhiish ; a black spot at anal angle, and one in the second median inter- 

 space ; between these is a faintly blue triangular spot. 



Expanse 31 millim. 



Allied to Thecla ornata, but the primaries are paler and the reddish-orange 

 colour does not form a distinct patch ; on the under surface the red markings 

 at once separate it both from T. ornata, Leech, and T. v-alhum, Oberthiir. 

 It is also closely allied to T. prunoides, Staudinger, but the direction of the 

 transverse lines on under surface, the greater extent of the red submarginal 

 band on secondaries, and the series of black spots followed by red lunules on 

 primaries will serve to separate T. rubicundula from that species. 



Appears to be a local and scarce species. I received two female speci- 

 mens (originally supposed to be males) from Chang-yang, Central China, 

 where they were taken in June. 



Thecla lais, sp. nov. (Plate XXIX. fig. 4, 2 .) 



i^ewia?e. Fuliginous brown. Primaries have an obscure orange patch on the disc, intersected by 

 the second and third median nervulcs, the portion below the second nervule least evident. 

 Secondaries have a bright orange band on the outer marginal area towards anal angle ; this 

 band is separated -into three parts by the suLmedian nervurc and first median nervule. 

 Fringes pale grey-brown, white at the angle of secondaries, and white tipped with black on each 

 side of the tail, which is black with a white apex. Under surface grey-brown : primaries 

 have a series of six linear -n hifc spots, bordered internally with blackish, forming a transverse 

 band : secondaries have a slightly oblique central scries of five \^ hite linear spots, edged inwardly 

 with blackish ; submarginal band composed of seven white crescents and two nearly parallel 



