ZEPHYEUS. 



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" On the under surface the sexes only difter in the more pronounced coloration of the female. 

 The wings are of a uniform pale orange- yellow, traversed by a band parallel with the outer 

 margin ; this band is formed of silver crescents margined with black, placed between 

 the nervules and followed externally by orange patches, which increase in size towards 

 the inner margin of each wing ; the last of these spots on the primaries is double and 

 replaced by black ; beyond the silver crescents there is a series of white spots ; there is 

 a black spot at anal angle, and another in the first mediair interspace corresponding with 

 that on upper surface. Fringes white, preceded by a black line. 



" One male and two females taken in August in the Isle of Askold." (Oberthiir, I. c.) 



M. Oberthiir's figure of this species, representing a female example, 

 measures 4G millim. in expanse. 



Dr. Staudinger (Kom. sur Lep. vi. p. 146) says that he has received this 

 species from Sutschan, Askold, and Vladivostock. 



Yar. gabrielis, var. noY. (Plate XXVIII. fig. 7, $ .) This form, which bears the same relation 

 to the type that rapliaelis does to var. jimnen, has all the wings bright fulvous on upper 

 surface ; the apex of primaries is broadly black, extending along the costal and outer 

 margin ; the secondaries have a black patch near outer angle : there is no black spot in first 

 median interspace. Under surface as in the type, but there is no black spot on the outer 

 margin in first median interspace of primaries as represented in the figure of michaelis. 



Expanse 52 millim. 



One female example of this form, for the loan of which I am indebted to 

 Mr. Grose Smith, was taken in Western China, probably at Omei-shan. My 

 collectors failed to meet with it. 



Zephyrus raphaelis. (Plate XXVIII. fig. 10, var.) 



Thecla raphaelis, Oberthlir, Etud. d'Entom. v. p. 20, pi. v. fig. 1 (1880) ; Fixsen, Rom. 



sur Lep. iii. p. 278 (1887). 

 Bijjsas flamen, Leech, Proe. Zool. Soc. 1887, p. 410, pi. xxxvi. fig. 2. 



" Ailes arrondies, inferieures sans prolongemeut caudal, entierement rouge orange en dessus, 

 sauf le bord terminal dcs ailes superieures horde de noir, ainsi que la partie anterieure 

 du bord terminal dcs ailes inferieures. Cette bordure noire est un peu variable et plus 

 ou moins prononcee suivant les individus. La partie la plus large de la partie noire se trouve 

 a I'apex des ailes superieures, a Tangle interne des inferieures et par un petit renflement a 

 I'extremite inferieure du bord terminal des premieres ailes. 



" Le dessous ne difiere guere de celui de michaelis que par sa teinte orange'e plus vive. 



" L'abdomen differe de celui dc michaelis parce qu'il est fauve en dessus au lieu d'etre brun." 

 (OhertMir, I. c.) 



When M. Oberthiir wrote the above description he had a male specimen of 

 the species from Amurland and a female example from Askold, but he does 



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