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inner margin ; a yellowish-wliite apical streak; dark submarginal band intersected by the 
nervules : secondaries have an elbowed central transverse line ; a submarginal series of five 
black spots encircled with pale brown and beyond is a dark band ; fringes white variegated at 
ends of the nervules with brown. Under surface : primaries dark ochreous brown ; a broad 
whitish bar at extremity of ceU bordered on both sides with blackish brown, transverse band 
as above, but more distinctly bordered externally with whitish ; apical mark white : secon- 
daries have two violet-grey subbasal lines, a short dark brown central band from the costa 
edged outwardly with violet-grey, a submarginal dark brown angulated band externally edged 
with violet-grey, each of the six oceUi ringed with the latter colour ; the outer marginal line 
is reddish brown, and is edged internally by a greyish-violet line, which expands into a lunule 
in the first and second median interspaces, and terminates in a triangular mark at anal angle. 
The femah, which does not appear to have been hitherto recorded, is paler than the male, the 
border to central fascia is broader, pale yellowish in colour, and most distinct towards costa ; 
the ocelli on secondaries are rather larger. 
Expanse, 60 miUim., 5 54 millim. 
M. Oberthiir has compared this species with Lethe {Dehis) nicetas, Hew. ; 
but it appears to be congeneric with Zophoessa jalaurida, de Niceville, which 
also occurs in China. 
It is Avidcly distributed and not uncommon in Western China during the 
months of June, July, and /Vugust, occurring at altitudes. ranging from 4000 
to 8000 feet. 
Zophoessa helle. (Plate Vll. fig. 4, <s .) 
Zophoessa helle, Leech, Entomologist, xxiv., Suppl. p. 1 (1891). 
Closely allied to Zophoessa armcmcUna, Obcrth., but the boundary of the basal two thirds of pri- 
maries is determined by a fairly broad black transverse baud, which runs obliquely outwards 
from the costa to below the end of cell, from whence it is only slightly indented to inner 
margin ; this transverse band is bordered externally with deep fulvous ; the bar in discal 
cell is straight and very clearly defined : the black marginal spots on the secondaries are 
ratlicr smaller, and there is no reddish line on the outer margin ; the fringes are white, more 
decidedly chequered with brownish than in Z. annamUna, and the apex of pi'imaries is 
brown instead of white. On the under surface there are two small ocelli below white apical 
spots ; the discal bar is broad, straight, whitish, and very conspicuous ; two pairs of silvory- 
violct lines traverse the secondaries, but the inner one of the second pair is not continued 
beyond the median ncrvuro, above which the space between this pair is clouded with silvery- 
violet ; the second, third, and fourth ocelli are sometimes clouded with silvery- violet, and the 
pupils of all are bluish. 
In the female the fulvous border to centriil band of primaries is rather broader than in the male. 
Expanse 60 millim. 
Widely distril)utcd and common in Western China, from June to August, 
occurring at various altitudes ranging up to 10,000 feet. 
