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NYMPHALID^. 
tarsus longer than the tibia, very hairy and brush-like. Fore legs of the female not longer 
than those of the male, cylindrical. The tibia externally clothed with a few hairs. The 
tarsus scarcely more than half the length of the tibia, scaly, rather dilated, and obliquely 
truncate at the tip, with a few very short rather thick spines nearly concealed by the 
scales. 
" Four hind legs rather short, slender. Tibia with a few very fine spines on the underside ; 
tibial spurs rather long. Tarsus armed on the sides beneath with rows of fine spines. 
Ungues elongated, curved, very acute, entire. 
" Abdomen small and slender in the males, elongate-ovate in the females." (Douhleday, I. c.) 
Zophoessa gracilis. 
Pararye gracilis, Obertliiir, Etud. d'Eutom. xi. p. 23, pi. iv. fig. 19 (1886). 
Fuliginous brown : primaries have two dusky bars in the discal cell, the outermost closing the 
cell ; beyond the middle is a dark transverse band edged externally with pale brown ; two 
whitish spots near costa towards apex, and below these a series of four blind ocelli, the 
first and fourth often indistinct and sometimes entirely absent ; secondaries have a submar- 
ginal row of four ocelli all with fulvous irides, but, with the exception of the fourth, usually 
without pupils. Under surface greyish : primaries have a broad whitish bar in the cell 
bordered on each side with dark brown, and the cell is closed by a narrow brown line ; the 
transverse band is bordered with white ; the four ocelli are usually well defined and are 
followed by a whitish band : secondaries are traversed by two browil lines, which are parallel 
from costa to middle of the wing, and then converge towards anal angle, the enclosed space 
is partly filled in with whitish, and contains a short brownish dash in the centre ; there are 
six submarginal complete ocelli bordered inwardly by a series of whitish lunules, and out- 
wardly towards the costa with brownish, and towards anal angle with deep fulvous. 
Expanse 54-00 millim. 
Although a large number of this species have been received, no example 
of the female has yet been detected among them. 
A common species in Western China, occurring up to above 9000 feet. 
Zophoessa jalaurida. 
Zophoessa jalaurida, dc Niccville, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. xlix. p. 245 (1880); 
Marshall & dc Niccvillo, Butt. Ind. i. p. 166, pi. x. fig. 19, S (1882) ; Elwcs, Trans. 
Ent. Soc. Lond. 1888, p. 320, pi. viii. fig. 4. 
" Male. Upper surface of Jjolh wings deep brown. Cilia brown, ochreous at the interspaces. Fore 
wing with a somewhat constricted band across the coll beyond its middle, widely bord(Ted on 
bo<}i sides witli a deeper shade of tlie ground-colour. A transverse discal band extending 
from the costa to the inner margin, divided anteriorly, by the veins into four somewhat square- 
sliajicd s])otH, l)ch)\v tlio third median nervulo consisting of diamond-shaped spots, A sub- 
iiltical Hpol divided into tliree portions by tlie veins, followed by four small round spots, the 
tliird from (ho a])cx sliglitly the hirgest ; all the bands and spots ochreous. An indistinct 
HufTused Bubinarginal dark brown lino. Hind wing with an indistinct dark bar across the 
cell near its end, tlie discocellular nervules bordered on botli sides with deep l)rown, and a 
