566 



HESPERIIDiE. 



of abdominal segments white. Base of secondaries and body below bluish grey. Expanse 

 of wings 1 inch G lines. 



" A tolerably common species ; its position is between D, fethijs and D. sinicn of Felder ; it appears 

 to represent the latter in Japan, and differs from it in the smaller spots on the primaries, and 

 in the black spots being visible upon the white belt of the secondaries." (Butler, I. c.) 



This species varies considerably in size and in the shape, size, and pattern 

 of the subhyaline spots on primaries, especially the subapical ones ; the width 

 of the white band on secondaries is also a variable character, and the base of 

 under surface of secondaries is sometimes bluish grey, sometimes fuliginous 

 grey, and sometimes hardly different in colour to the general area. 



The type of Butler's felderi, which is certainly only a form of sinica, is 

 said to have been taken by Maries at Nikko, but it is more probable that he 

 obtained the specimen at Kiukiang. as no other collector has recorded any 

 form of sinica from Japan, where it seems to be replaced by fethi/s. 



I found sinica plentiful at Foochau and Ningpo in April, and it appears to 

 have been common at moderate elevations in most of the localities in China 

 visited by my collectors. Mabille's type of moorei was taken at Moupin. 



Alpheraky records the species from Hou-tchi, N.E. Thibet. 



Daimio narada. (Plate XXXVIII. fig. 14, var.) 



Satariipa narada, INIoore, Jourii. Asiat. Soc. Beng. IBHl, p. 50. 

 Pteri/fjospidea divasa, Leoch, Entomologist, xxiii. p. 40 (1890). 



" Uppersido purpurasccnt violet-brown : fore wing with three small u])p('r and two lower sub- 

 apical semidiaphanoiis white spots, a small erect oval spot at lower end of the cell, a slightly 

 larger quadrate spot on the disc between iipper and middle naedians, and a broad band formed 

 of three (juadrate spots increasing in width from end of cell to posterior margin ; hind wing 

 wilh a broad white transverse mediiil l)iuid, the outer l)or(ler wil h an ill-defined u]i|icr spot. 

 Cilia edged with white. Underside marked as above : the hind wing with the bund showing 

 a mori; defined macular outer border and a well-separated upper spot. 



" Ex[)anRe 1 inch." (Moore, I. c.) 



Var. diversa, Leech. (Phite XXXVIII. fig, 14, d ■) Brownish l)hick ; primaries have three 

 subhyaline H])ots on the disc, and five very small ones towards apex, the central s])ots form a 

 triangle, a lunar or linear one at end of discoidal cell, one rather larger and more quadrate 

 beyond, aiul a still larger one below, of the outer five the second is punctiform and ])laced 

 inwards, the fourth rather outwards, and the remaining two are directly under the first ; a 

 white spot in the submedian intorsjjace under the larger subhyaline one. Secondaries have a 

 broad while; central band terminating on the inner margin opposite a white 1)and on the 

 abdomen, and there are some black spots on its upper external edge. Fringes of j)rimarie8 

 black, spotted witli whito above inner angle ; of secondaries white, tinged with grey, becoming 

 darker towards outiT angle, and with a slender blackish line a) thcii' bas(^ pnn'eded liy some 



