ZEPHYKUS. 



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contexture plus delicate. L'apex des ailes supc'rieures est marque d'une tache noiratre tri- 

 angulaire. Le bord oxterieur est fiuemeut lisere dc noiratre. 

 *' En dessous, serai)him difFere de lutea par rabsence sur Ic disque des ailes des lignes blanches qui 

 distinguent lutea. Lo milieu des ailes dans seraphim est d'un fauve orange absolument uui, 

 Le bord exterieur est seulemeut decore, a peu pros commo dans lutm, mais d'une maniere 

 moins accentuee, par una ligne blanche dont la direction est a peu pres parallele au bord 

 exterieur; cetto ligne blanche se termine en chevrons internervuraux d'autant plus aigus 

 qu'on se rapproche davantage de Tangle anal. Entre cetto ligne et le bord exterieur, il-y-a 

 des points noirs intra-nervuraux, plus ou moins entoures ou meme envahis de blanc, ressortant 

 sur un fond plus orange que le fond meme des ailes. La tache de I'espace nervural ante- 

 anal est la plus noire et la plus grosse de toutes. Le bord des ailes inferieures est lisere 

 d'une triple ligne noiro, blanche et noire. L'appendice caudal ordinaire est assez long, fin et 

 noir." (Oherthur, 1. c, Ball. Soc. Eat. Fr.) 



The spot at anal angle is entirely absent in some examples, and in some 

 specimens there are indications of a black spot at outer angle of secondaries. 



Appears to be a common species in many parts of Western China, 

 occurring in June and July above 10,000 feet. I have received it from 

 Omei-shan, Ta-chien-lu, Ni-tou, Wa-shan, Che-tou, and Pu-tsu-fong. 



Zephyrus minerva. (Plate XXVIII. fig. 12, ? .) 



Dipsas minerva, Leech, Entomologist, xxiii. p. 40 (1890). 



Female. Pale orange-brown : outer margin of primaries narrowly bordered with black, broader at 

 the apex. Secondaries with a black spot on outer margin between second and third median 

 nervules, and another at anal angle : fringes grey, darker at the tips and extremities of 

 nervules, preceded by a black line, which traverses the tail to the white tip. Under surface 

 rather paler than above : primaries with an interrupted white submarginal line, edged 

 internally with black, followed by a series of white lunules, edged externally with black, and 

 enclosing reddish-orange spots : secondaries have a white submarginal line, edged internally 

 with black, with three deep indentations before abdominal margin, followed by an undulated 

 black-edged white line enclosing some reddish-orange spots and two black ones ; one of 

 these last is placed at outer angle, and the other, which is edged with reddish orange, 

 between second and third nervules ; the orange spots are edged externally with black, 

 intersected by short projections from a white line parallel with outer margin ; fringes and 

 tail as above. 



Expanse 37 millim. 



In one of the specimens the border of outer margin and apex is very 

 faintly indicated. 



Allied to Zephyrus {Thecia) seraphim, Oberth., from which it differs prin 

 cipally in the arrangement of markings on under surface of secondaries. 



Occurs in June at Ichang, Central China, from whence I received five 

 female specimens. I have not seen the male of this species. 



