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NTMPHALID^. 
sinueuse d'un brun veloute ; base traversce jusqu'au milieu par quatre lignes ties sinueuses 
d'un lilas soyeux ; bord extcrue orno de cinq yeux noirs a iris orange, pupilles de blanc et 
saupoudres do lilas ; chaqne ceil est largement entoure d'un ccrcle de cette derniere couleur. 
Bordure fauve, precedee d'un fin lisere lilas. Frange des quatre ailes blanche entrecoupee 
de brun en dessus et dessous. 
" Antennes brunes annelees de blanc. 
" Un c? . Mou-Pin. (Abb. Arm. David.) Nat. Mus." (Poujade, I. c.) 
In the Chinese form of this species (var. moupinensis, Pouj.) the male is smaller, and both sexes 
are darker ; the outer margin of the primaries is straighter, and there is but one pale spot on 
the costa ; the external margin of secondaries is less angulated in contour, and the ocelli are 
represented by black dots. On the under surface the coloration and markings are very similar 
to these characters in typical dura, but the primaries have a reddish apical dash, the ocelli 
are indistinct and only two in number ; all the ocelli on the secondaries, excepting the sixth, 
have a faded appearance. 
Expanse, S 70 millim., $ 80 millim. 
Chinese specimens agree almost exactly with an example of dura in the 
collection of the late Herr. Otto MoUer Avhich I had not seen when I 
described the insect under the name of lihitina. Subsequent study and com- 
parison of the Chinese specimens with dura lead me to the opinion that 
both are forms of one species, i. e. Z. dura^ Moicj)mensis, Pouj. { = liMtina, 
Leech), has rather shorter " tails " than dura, and the upper surface is some- 
what darker in colour, but in other respects there appears to be no difference 
of specific value. 
Occurs sparingly at various places in AVestern China, and I have one 
female example from Chang-yang. 
Genus NEOPE. 
Neope, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) xix. p. IGG (1867). 
Ewo/je, Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. p. 228 (1857). 
NeupCj Moore, Proe. Zool. Soc. Lond. 18G5, p. 770. 
"Ala) magna;: antica; elongata), subtrigonata), costa paulum convexa ; margino postico denticulato ; 
margine interiorc convexiusculo, rarius recto ; vonis ad basim vix tumidis, vclut in Debc 
positis ; maculia ocellisquc ut in Lasiommata. 
" Alae postica; forma vcnisquo Debts, Samionis, S;/r(jidisvc. 
" Ala; Hubtus ocellis subinarginalibus ; area basali striis fasciisque irregularibus scriptii. AiitiMinsB 
clava gradatira formata." (Butler, I. c.) 
Type JV. hhadrn. 
Neope yama. (Phue VIll. fig. l, s var.) 
ZopliocHHU ijama, .Moore, Cat. Lcp. E. I. C. i. p. 221 (1857) ; Marshall & de Niceville, Hutt. 
Ind. i. p. 1G9, pi. x. fig. 21, cJ (1882). 
