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wrote : — " This is extremely abundant about Yokohama and everywhere on 
the plains, but does not go very far up the mountains, where it is replaced 
by the next species (Z. diana). I have taken the larva, and believe it feeds 
on the bamboo-grass." 
Lethe cyrene. (Plate VI. figs. 6 d , 5 $ .) 
Lethe cyrene, Leech, Entomologist, xxiii. p. 27 (1890). 
Male. Brown, tinged with ochrcous ; apical third of primaries slightly paler, divided off obliquely 
from just beyond the middle of costa to near inner angle, and containing a series of four small 
blackish spots, each placed at the interior end of a narrow longitudinal fold on the outer 
margin, an indistinct dark line parallel with outer margin. Secondaries with five black spots 
set in fulvous rings, the costal one of the series has a large white pupil, and the third is 
least in size, a small chestnut patch at anal angle ; fringes white, chequered with brown, and 
])receded by a double line, following the contour of outer margin. Under surface ochreous 
broM'n ; two short transverse brown bars intersect the discoidal cell, the space between them 
is pale ochreous, and the outer bar is continued below the median nervure to the inner 
margin ; beyond the cell is a broad brown band, which traverses the wing in an oblique 
direction to the first median branch, below which it turns inwards and then outwards to the 
inner margin, this band is bordered externally with pale ochreous ; a submarginal series of 
five small ocelli set in a transverse patch of pale ochreous is followed by two brown lines 
parallel with the outer margin, the interspace filled up with pale ochrcous from opposite the 
first ocellus to inner angle ; fringes grey, with a dark line at their base. Secondaries tra- 
versed by a pale ochreous stripe bordered with brown ; this stripe does not attain the inner 
margin, and the outer edge bulges about the middle ; towards the outer margin is a series of 
six ocelli set in a broad transverse patch of pale ochreous, the first ocellus near the costa is 
the largest, but does not greatly exceed the fourth and fifth, all have elongated white pupils 
and the sixth is double ; a brown line, preceded by a whitish one, and followed by one of 
pale ochreoiis, parallel with outer margin ; fringes as above. 
Female. Apical third of primaries paler than in the male, with a whitish costal dot on its inner edge, 
outer margin of secondaries more angulated ; the under surface is pale brown, central third 
of primaries darker, enclosing a whitish bar which crosses the discoidal cell ; secondaries 
with the costal mark of the male outhned in and partly filled up with brown. 
Expanse 62-68 millim. 
Allied to L. syrcis. Hew. 
Occurs at Chang-yang in June, and appears to be a very local species, as 
my collectors failed to meet with it in any other part of China visited by 
them. 
Lethe syrcis. 
Lethe syrcis, Hewitson, Exot. Butt, iv.. Deb. pi. iii. figs. 13, 14, ? ; Oberthiir, Etud. 
d'Entom. v\. pi. vii. fig. 3 (1881). 
