ZEPIITEUS. 



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Naikiinda in July and Angust, on the Jalaiui Pass at the end of July, 

 in Kuhi at 7000 feet in July, and from 8000 to 9000 feet in September, 

 and also in Kumaou. 



Dr. Fixsen (Eom. sur Lep. iii. p. 2G8) seems to consider Z. icana, Moore, 

 synonymous uitli ' Lijjsas' micans, Bremer and Grey; but this species is not 

 in any way to be confounded ■with Z. icana, and is not even congeneric 

 with it. 



Zephyrus bieti. 



T/u'c/a Lieti, Obertliiir, Etud. d'Entom. xi. p. 19, pi. iv. fig. 22, 6 (1886). 



" Voisine de Qnercvs, mais d'un bleu plus obscur en dessus et la bordure noire marginale beau- 

 coup plus large. La 2 difiure du c? dc la meme faeon que dans qiurciis, c'est-a-dire par 

 deux taclics bleu brillant et deux oxi trois points oranges aux ailes superieures. La frange 

 est brun jaunatrc. Le dessous differe de quercus, parcc que la teinte gris argente est 

 remplacee par du brun saupoudre d'une multitude d'atomes jaune orange, et que la ligne 

 transvcrsale allant du bord costal des su})crieurcs au bord anal des inferieures est jaune clair 

 et parallcle au bord exterieur. Cctto ligne est interieuremcnt accompagnee d'une ombre 

 rougeatrc trcs fine et exterieurement d'une bande submarginale de petits croissants rouge- 

 atres. Lcs espaces cellulaircs sont clos par un trait rongeatre." (OberiJiiir, I. c.) 



Occurs commonly from May to August at Che-tou, Ta-chien-lu, and Moupin 

 in Western China and at How-kow in Thibet. Tt is found at various eleva- 

 tions up at 10,000 feet. 



Zephyrus signata. (Plate XXYII. fig. 12, $ .) 



Thecla signata, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1881, p. 854; Waterhouse, Aid Identif. 

 Ins. pi. cxiv. fig. 2 (1882) ; Pryer, Rhop. Nihon. p. 16, pi. iv. fig. 19 (1886). 



" Allied to T. arata and T. tijrianthina. Primaries above -with the discoidal cell, the interno- 

 median interspace almost to outer margin, and the basal half of the median interspaces bright 

 pure lilac, the remainder of the wings and the veins dark brown, shot with hlac ; secondaries 

 rather pale fuliginous brown with bronzy reflections, the discoidal cell sprinkled with lilac 

 scales. "Wings below pale golden brown : primaries with two slightly darker spots in the 

 cell, margined and partly connected by silvery-white hues ; a slightly oblique band from costa 

 to first median branch, edged on both sides with silverj--white lines ; a submarginal series of 

 indistinct white lunules, the last two of which bound two dusky spots ; internal area shining 

 whitish ; fringe dusky : secondaries with two abbreviated silvery-white lines across the base 

 of the subcostal area, the inuer one curved ; a nearly M-shaped character of the same colour 

 crossed by the median vein ; two widely angulated, sleuder, interrupted white lines from the 

 abdominal margin to the median vein ; an oblique white line from the costal margin to the 

 first median branch, and a chaiu-like double white line from the apex to the second median 

 branch; a large black-spotted orange spot on the anal area (the anal third of the wing is 



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