LETHE. 
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Superficially like Lethe tristigmata, Elwes, but distinguished by the different 
colour of under surface, angulation of transverse lines, and character of apical 
spots. 
This would seem to be a scarce species, as I have only five male specimens ; 
four of these were taken at Omei-shan in June and July, and one at Pu-tsu- 
fong in July. There are three male specimens in the Paris Museum collection 
from Moupin. 
Lethe labyrinthea. (Plate VI. figs, i , 2 ? .) 
Lethe labyrinthea, Leechj Entomologist^ xxiii. p. 28 (1890). 
Male. Brown, with an olivaceous gloss. Primaries have two dark clouds in the discoidal cell, and a 
blackish central transverse band ; from the outer edge of the last rays are projected aloug 
the nervules to the outer margin, intersecting in their course a blackish transverse line ; a 
second abbreviated waved blackish band extends from inner margin to second median nervule. 
Secondaries have a submargiiial series of six black spots, enclosed between two wavy ill- 
defined blackish bands, parallel with outer margin is a narrow blackish line ; fringes white, 
variegated with blackish at the extremities of nervules. Under surface pale ochreous, tinged 
with olivaceous ; two brown bars in discoidal cell of primaries; central transverse line brown, 
oblique, with three deep indentations, and edged towards costa with yellowish ; some pale 
spots near costa precede a suffused brownish marginal line. Secondaries with a grey-brown 
pale-edged band near the base, extending from costa to median nerviire, beyond is a brown 
suffused line curving from costa to abdominal margin, and emitting a spur to the mediau 
nervure : central band of unequal width and edged externally with blackish, followed by a 
broad ochreous marginal band, in which is placed a series of six ocelli, the third and fourth 
are rather indistinct, and all more or less completely encircled with lilacine white ; a sub- 
marginal line of the same colour edged on each side with black, and swelling out into lunules 
opposite the last three ocelli ; fringes white, chequered with brownish at extremities of 
nervules. 
Female. Paler ; markings of primaries above same as on under surface of male, but with the addition 
of two small ocelli below apex. 
Expanse, 70 millim., 5 80 millim. 
The males somewhat resemble the same sex of L. nigrifascia in the 
character of the male mark, but in general appearance the species comes 
nearer to L. callijjteris. 
One female example from Omei-shan, the only specimen received from 
Western China, is smaller, darker, and the pale markings are broader and 
brighter. 
Occurs at Ichang and Chang-yang in Central China, and at Omei-shan in 
Western China, during July. 
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