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blanc u iris jaunatre finement. ccrcle de brun, occupeiit les angles. Franfi;o dcs quatre 
alios brune, precedee d'un lisere orange limite intcrieurement aux iuterieures par une fine 
ligne verdatre argentee. 
" Plusicurs males. Mou-Pin. (Poujade, I. c.) 
Female. Similar to the male, but the dark transverse band beyond the middle of the primaries is 
followed by a broad interrupted yellowish band. 
Occurs at Chang-yang, Central China, in June, and at Moupin and Wa- 
shan, Western China, in June and July. 
Lethe gemina. (Plate xil. tig. 8, d .) 
Lethe gemina, Leech, Entomologist, xxiv., Suppl. p. 24 (1891). 
^fa^e, Pale brownish, darker on the external margin of all the wings ; the primaries have a dusky 
anguluted fascia beyond the middle, and a black spot ringed with fulvous towards apex : the 
secondaries have four large black submarginal spots, set in fulvous rings and arranged in 
j)airs ; the fourth spot has a white centre, and the rings of the second and third are connected 
by a fulvous patch which encloses a small black dash in its upper portion ; there is a small 
black spot ringed with fulvous above anal angle, and a broad fulvous line, edged internally 
with black, and preceded by a greyish line parallel with outer margin. Under surface paler 
than above ; the primaries have a broad pale violet-grcy submarginal band from the apical 
ocellus to inner margin : a fulvous line, bordered internally with black and pale violet-grey, 
parallel with outer margin : secondaries have a large ocellus at outer angle, and a similar 
one, together with a minute one, at anal angle : these ocelli are bordered with pale violet- 
grey, and preceded by a curved and angulated brown band; discal linear spot brown, 
followed by a pale violet-grey patch. 
Expanse, S 56-66 millim., 5 70 millim. 
One male specimen captured at Moupin, in July, and four males and one 
female at Omei-shan. 
Lethe violaceopicta. (Plate III. figs. 5 j , 6 ? .) 
Debts violaceopicta, Poujade, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1884, p. clviii. 
Lethe calisto, Leech, Entomologist, xxiv., Suppl. p. 23 (1891). 
" Envergure : 52 mill. — Ailes superieures en triangle presque rectangle, ailes inferieures arrondies 
et faiblement dentelees. 
'•■ Dessus d'un brun legerement olivatre, uniforme. Ailes inferieures bordees d'un lise're fauve peu 
marque, surmonte de cincj taches triangulaires d'un brun noiratre. Frangea blanches, entre- 
coupees de brun. 
" Bessous d'un brun olivatre, s'cclaircissant de la cote au bord interne aux ailes supe'rieures ; 
celles-ci sont traversees par une serie de taches pales peu acceutuees, disposees en quart de 
cercle, partant de la cote un peu apres I'extremite de la cellule et se dirigeant vers I'angie 
interne. Entre cette serie de taches et I'angle apical existe, au milieu, touchant la cote, une 
tache lilas, triangulaire, allonge'e, un peu courbe et bordee extericurement par trois yeux 
noirs largement pupillos de blanc, a iris fauve. Les ailes inferieures sont plus foncees vers le 
bord externe et traversees, lateralement au milieu, par une bande courbe, sinueuse, d'un brun 
veloute. Base traversee, jusqu'au milieu, par quatre ligncs transverses, tres irregulicrement 
