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NTMPHALID^. 
Lethe callipteris, (Plate VI. figs. 3 c? , 4 ? .) 
Neope callipteris, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) xix. p. 92 (1877) ; Pryer, Rhop. 
Nihon. p. 32, pi. ix. fig. 11. 
"Male. Bronzy olive-brown ; external area smoky brown ; outer border paler, lunulated : primaries 
with a discal series of ochraceous spots, forking above the third median branch ; the veins 
upon the central region densely clothed with dark brown scales, especially the submedian 
vein and the three median branches ; two dusky streaks across the apical half of the cell : 
secondaries with six ochraceous spots, the first, second, fourth, and fifth oval and enclosing 
large, ovate, black spots, the last small, transverse, enclosing two small black spots : body 
bronzy brown ; thorax reddish in front, greenish in the centre. Wings below altogether 
paler, sandy yellowish ; external area dusky : primaries with two brown bars across the 
apical half of the cell, a lunated angulated transverse discal band of the same colour ; three 
pale subapical spots, the uppermost trifid, the second ocelliform ; a lunulated submargiual 
stripe : secondaries with the basal area slightly dusky, three pale-edged dusky lines from the 
costal nervure across the cell ; a lunated and angulated, diffused, brown, discal line bound- 
ing the ocelli internally ; six ocelli, the first and fifth large, the third extremely minute, the 
sixth small and geminate ; all black, with white pupils and yellow irides ; area immediately 
beyond the ocelli beautifully pinky opaline ; a brown-edged scries of compressed angulated 
spots of the same colour close to the margin ; edge of margin black ; fringe white-varied : 
body below sordid whitish ; legs ochreous. 
" Expanse of wings 2 inches 7 lines." (Butler, I. c.) ■ 
In the female all the yellowish markings are of a paler tint and more clearly defined. 
This is a mountain insect, occurring in July and August at Oyama, Yamato, 
and also in Yesso, Japan. 
Lethe sicelis, 
DcMs sicelis, Ilewitsoii, Exot. Butt, iii.. Deb. pi. i. fig. 3 (1862). 
Lethe sicelis, Pryer, E,hop. Nihon. p. 32, pi. ix, fig. 10. 
" Upperside. Female, yellow-brown. Anterior wing crossed near the middle by an indistinct 
pale band ; posterior wing with indistinct submarginal lines and four ocelli, two of them 
little more than minute brown spots, one only (the lowest) with a white pupil. Underside 
yellow-brown, with the outer margins and a line near them dark brown ; anterior wing with 
a band across the cell, and a curved band at the middle, bordered outwardly with white ; a 
band of white near the apex enclosing two ocelli: posterior wing with abroad, transverse 
white band with rufous border on both sides before the middle, followed by seven ocelli ; the 
the first and fifth the largest, the sixth and seventh united ; all black, with white pupils, the 
iris ornnge-yollow bordered with light brown, and again with lilac- white. Expanse inch." 
( f/cwil.ion, I. c.) 
1'lie male is similar to the female in coloration, but it has a glandular patch of long hairs near 
the outer extremity of the discoidal cell of secondaries. 
Occurs commonly in Central Japan in July and August, also at Gcnsan 
in Coroa. In his Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of Japan, the late Mr. Pryer 
