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partagees a peu pivs au milieu par deux lignes rousses, courbes et sinueuses, partant de la 
cote et aboutissant au bord interne. Bord externe orne d'une rangee de six j'eux semblables 
a ceux de I'aile superieure, mais de dimensions difFerentes : le premier est le plus large, noir 
et detacbe des autres, les deux suivants sont assez petits et le quatrieme du double plus grand, 
le cinquieme est noir et du double du precedent, le dernier, egalement noir, est petit et 
souvent double. Les quatre ailes sontborde'es d'un double liscre brun a intervalles jaunatres ; 
franges d'un brun clair. Corps de la couleur des ailes. Antennes brunes, annelees de blanc, 
a massue en partie fauve. Decrit sur six males appartenant a la collection du Museum." 
{Foujade, I. c.) 
The above description applies exactly to some of my female specimens of 
this species, but others have five distinct ocelli on upper surface of second- 
aries, and one example has a double subapical ocellus on primaries. 
In my male specimens the outer area of primaries does not appear to be 
appreciably paler than the rest of the wing, but the pale fascia, as shown in 
the figure, is generally visible. The ocelli of primaries are often smaller than 
in the female, and the lower one is always without white j^upil. 
The male specimen from Chang-yang (Plate VII. fig. 2), described by me 
as Letlie occulta, is without doubt referable to i. {M.) oculatissima, Poujade, 
but is larger than male specimens from Western China, and on the under 
surface of primaries there are but four ocelli, and the second and third of 
these are very indistinctly formed ; on the secondaries there are six ocelli, but 
the third and fourth are very shadowy, and the outer central transverse line 
is angulated below the first ocellus. I think the name of occulta may be 
retained for the Central Chinese race of this species. 
The typical form is common throughout AVestern China, but so far it is 
represented in Central China by the var. occulta only. 
Lethe diana. 
Debis diana, Butler, Journ. Linn. Roc, Zool. ix. p. 55 (18GG) ; Prycr, Rhop. Nihon. 
p. 32, pi. ix. fig. 12 ; Obertliiir, Etud. d'Entora. vi. p. 16, pi. vii. fig. 2 (1881). 
Lethe whiteiyi, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) xx. p. 403, pi. ix. fig. 8 (I8G7). 
Lcthr. consanguis, Butler, op. cit. (5) vii. p. 133 (1881). 
" Alit! supra fuscaj ; antica) fascia obliqua subcostali brevi pallida post ccllam posita ; corpus 
fuscum. 
" Alao subtus fuscac ; anticac fascia alba triangulari, ad angulum analcm coarctala; ccUa linois 
duabiis nigro-fuscis ; margino postico linois duabus pallidis miirginato occUisquc tribus nigris 
ullio j)upill:ilis fulvo, fusco ocbrcocjuo circumciiictis .subniarginato. Post ica; linois duabus 
mcdiiH super ccllam, ad cost am approximantil)us ; margino postico linois duabus pallidis 
marginato ocellisquc sex subniarginalo, primo quintoque majoribua. Alar. oxp. unc. Ig." 
(BtUler, Journ. Linn. Snc. 18G(i.) 
