386 



Zephyrus melpomene. (Plate XXVIII. fig. 14, c? .) 



Dipsas meljjomene, Leech, Entomologist, xxiii. p, 41 (1890). 



Pale orange-brown; apex of primaries, tail, and anal angle of secondaries black. Under surface 

 rather browner than above ; primaries streaked with whitish along the inner margin, 

 discoidal bar and submarginal line darker, the latter faintly edged externally with whitish : 

 secondaries with dark discoidal bar edged with whitish ; submarginal line white, curved, and 

 slightly indented before abdominal margin, followed by a paler shade of the ground-colour ; a 

 spot between second and third median nervules and one at anal angle black ; the marginal 

 border is of the ground-colour, intersected bj' a paler line to the second median uervule, then 

 pale reddish orange to the abdominal margin ; fringes of the ground-colour, preceded by 

 a darker line to the second median nervule, from which point to the anal angle the fringes 

 are white, preceded by a black line, which traverses the tail to the white tip. 



Expanse 40 millim. 



One example captured at Chang-yang in August. 



Allied to Z. Jonasi, Janson, but easily distinguished therefrom by the 

 different character of the apical patch of primaries above and the markings 

 on the under surface of secondaries ; the tails are longer and more slender. 



Zephyrus lutea. 



Dipsas liiteu, Ilewitsoii, 111. Diurn. Lep. p. 67, pi. xxvi. figs. 9, 10 (1865) ; Pryer, Rliop, 

 Nihou. p. 13, pi. iv. fig. 4 (1886). 



" Fetnale. Upperside orange. Anterior wing with the outer margin? brown. Posterior wing with 

 the tail, the outer margin near it, and a spot at the anal angle dark brown. Underside orange. 

 Anterior wing crossed by two rufous bands bordered with white ; a spot of brown near the 

 anal angle. Posterior wing pale rufous brown, crossed by two lines of silvery white ; a sub- 

 marginal band of orange bordered inwardly by lunular white spots margined black, and 

 outwardly by a line of small black spots ; a black spot near the base of the tail, and also at 

 the anal angle ; the outer margin bro\\ n, the fringe white. Exp. 1^^ inch." (Hewitson, 

 I. c.) 



I took this species, together with Z. jonasi, near Hakodate in August. 

 Prjcr records it from Yokohama, Nikko, Yesso, and Asama-yama, and gives 

 the time of its appearance as May and June. 



Staudiiigor records lutea from various parts of Amurland (Rom. surLep. vi.), 

 and says iliat tlie specimens do not differ from those from Japan. 



Zephyrus seraphim. 



Thi rlii scrdiilii'iii, 0I)( rtiiiir, Bull. !Soc. Ent. Er. 1886, p. xii ; Etud. d'Eiitom. 

 p. 11), pi. v. fig. 37 (1886). 



" Apptufitnt nu groupc dcs Thecla jonaxi, lutea, scepestriata. Les ailes snperieures en dessus sent 

 du memo fauve orange que dans ces trois especcB, mais la T. serttphhn est plus petite ot d'unc 



