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NYMPHALID.^. 
the apical third is paler, limited by an undulating transverse dark band which 
is followed on the costa by a whitish blotch ; there is also a whitish patch on 
costa before the apex. Expanse 70-76 millim. 
Var. flavofasciata, var. nov. A form of the female in which the limiting transverse line of pri- 
maries is hroadl)- bordered outwardly with reddish brown, merging into yellowish on the costa. 
Generally distributed throughout Western China, occurring in some locali- 
ties at an elevation of 8000 feet. June and July. 
Lethe laodamia. (Plate III. fig. 4, c? .) 
Lethe laodamia, Leech, Entomologist, xxiv., Suppl. p. 67 (Sept. 1891). 
Male. Allied to Letlie (Delis) davidi, Oberth., but it is much paler on the upper surface, and the 
spots on the secondaries are distinctly black ; the fifth with a white central dot, as in davidi, 
and between this and the inner margin is a small triangular red patch. The under surface 
is grey-brown ; the primaries have two reddish-brown bars across the cell, and there is a 
band of the same colour beyond, oblique and edged externally with whitish ; there are four 
ocelli on the outer margin placed on a pale lilacine band ; submarginal and marginal lines 
brownish ; the secondaries have two reddish-brown bands and a series of six ocelli, each of 
which has a pale lilacine zone, and the first and fifth are larger than the others ; the outer 
margin is reddish brown, traversed by two pale lines. 
Female. Similar to the male, but the jirimaries have a faint whitish oblique central band and a 
dark obscure band on the submarginal area, the latter edged with whitish on the costa. 
Expanse, c? 64 millim., 5 7G millim. 
One male example, taken at an elevation of 6000 feet at "W^a-shan, in 
July, and a female specimen taken at about 4000 feet at Omei-shan. 
Lethe christophi. (Plate V. figs. 5^,6?.) 
Lethe christophi, Leech, Entomologist, xxiv., Suppl. p. 67 (Sept. 1891). 
Male. Pale brown. Primaries have some indistinct pale spots below cost a on outer third of the 
wing, ])ul there are no other markings. Secondaries have a large silky black patch below 
cell, and beyond there is a series of five blackish spots, the largest being the first, second, and 
fourth ; this last has traces of a white pupil ; the submarginal line is broad and pale, l)utnot 
well defined. Under surface pale brown, strongly suffused with lilacine on the basal two 
Ihirds of all the wings, and apical tliird of fore wings ; the primaries are traversed by two 
broad rufous-brown parallel lines, both are rather wavy, but the first does not quite attain 
the costa ; the cell is crossed by a bar of the same colour ; there is a small ocellus towards 
apex, with two white spots l)elow it, and a ])alo cloud aliove ; submarginal lino wavy and 
dusky, ill-defined below costa, and diffused below third median nervule ; marginal line rufous 
Ijrown : secondaries are traversed by two rufous-brown lines, the outer one curved, and beyond 
it is a series of six ocelli, of which the first and sixtli are the largest, tlie last is bipniiillatcd, 
and the wliile pupil of tlio fourlli is conspicuously large ; su1»niarginal and marginal lines 
as on iiriinarics. Fringes wliitc, chequered with brown at tlie extremities of the nervules. 
