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NYMPHALID^. 
Appears to be generally distributed and not uncommon during June and 
July in Western China ; I have two males and one female from Chang-yang, 
where they were captured in August. 
Originally I compared this species with Debis armandina, Oberth., with 
which it certainly has many characters in common ; but I now find that it is 
more closely allied to Lethe tristigmata, Elwes (Trans. Ent. Soc. 1887, p. 444 ; 
op. cit. 1888, pi. viii. fig, 1), as it resembles that species in the male mark on 
primaries. 
The following characters on the under surface, among others, readily 
distinguish it : the white apical mark on primaries, which in L. tristigmata 
is represented by four or five spots, and the different arrangement of the 
transverse lines on the secondaries. 
Lethe ocellata. (Plate III. fig. 3, s .) 
Debis ocellata, Poujade, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1885, p. x. 
Lethe simulans, Leech, Entomologist, xxiv., Suppl. p. 23 (1890). 
" Envorgure : do 54 a 60 mill. — Dessus brun clair legerement olivatre, laissant voir, par trans- 
parence, unc partie des lignes et taches du dessous. Ailes supe'ricures a bord externe un pen 
sinue, ayaiit une tache eufumec, plus ou moius vagup, sur la base des deuxieme et troisierae 
branches de la nervure raediane. Inferieures coupees presque carrement, legerement dentees, 
la dent raediane plus accusee, bordees de brun fonee partage par un lisere fauve clair. Cinq 
taches du merae brun, rondos, incgales, correspoudant aux ocelles du dessous, precedent la 
l)ordure. 
" Dessous du memo ton que celui du dessus, mais beaucoup plus clair ; ailes superieurcs partagoes 
par uno lignc sinuouse plus foncee, fondue interieurement, partant de la cote un peu apres la 
cellule et se dirigeant vers Tangle interne. Deux lignes du memo ton occupent lateralemeut 
la cellule. Une tache lilas est situee a la cote pros de Tangle apical. Ailes inferieui'es 
partagoes par deux lignes courbes tres sinueuses, plus foncees que le fond, bordees iaterieure- 
mcnt par un filet pale et occupant lateralemeut un peu moins du tiers median. Deux lignes 
semblables, mais moins accentuees, se trouvent a la base do Taile. Le bord oxterne est oriie 
de six yeux noirs pupill^s de blanc a iris jauue et cercles do lilas, celui situc a Tangle interne 
est double. Bordure des quatre ailes fauve, procedeo d'un lisere lilas parallcle aux sinuosiles 
de Taile. 
" Trois (S de Mou-rin rapportes par M. Tabbe A. David. Collection du Museum." {Poujade, I. c.) 
L. simnlans, Leech. — Male. Nearly allied to Lethe niyrifascia, Leech, but much smaller in size and 
darker in colour ; the black transverse band of primaries is inconspicuous, and is not dilated 
at any j)art of its outer edge ; on the secondaries the black marginal spots arc similar to 
those of L. iiir/rifdscia. Fringes brown. Under surface greyish 'brown ; basal half of 
primaries darker, limited by a fairly broad brown fascia, which is not edged with paler as in 
L. nufrifama ; there are two brownish bars in discal cell ; all the ocelli of secondaries are 
distinctly ringed with bluish white. 
Expanse 00 millim. 
