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" Differs from ZopJi. sura in having no caudal appendages to the hind wing ; the underside having 
on the fore wing three pale bauds crossing the discoidal cell, and four submarginal ocelli : 
the hind wing having the basal portion irrorated with minute pale dots, the transverse streaks 
more oblique, and the ocelli, seven in number, are black, encircled with a pale and then a 
dark line, centred with a minute white dot, that at the anal angle being, as it were, geminated ; 
cilioe seen from upperside yellowish white. Sexes alike. Expanse 3 inches." {Moo7'e, I. c.) 
The Chinese representative of this species differs from the Indian type ; I 
therefore describe it as 
Var. serica, var. nov. (Plate VIII. fig. 1, cJ .) The apex of primaries is more produced and the outer 
margin is oblique. The male is more fuliginous on the upper surface, and the black spots of 
secondaries are not so clearly defined as- in the type. On the under surface the ground-colour 
has more olive in its composition. 
Generally distributed and not uncommon in Western China, and has been 
taken at Chang-yang in Central China ; occurring at various elevations from 
5000 up to about 10,000 feet in May and June. In India the type is found 
in the Khasi Hills in May, and at Mussoorie ; also recorded from the 
Himalayas in Kumaon. 
Neope christi. 
Neope christi, Oberthiir^ Etud. d'Entom. xi. p. 25, pi. iii. fig. 18 (1886). 
Male. Greyish brown with broad blackish outer margins to all the wings, and the discal area thickly 
felted with long silky hairs. The yellowish maculation is arranged exactly as in N.simulans 
(PI. VIII. fig. 2). Under surface similar in pattern to that of N. i/ama, var. serica (PI. VIII. 
fig. 1), but the pale markings are yellowish : the first ocellus is well formed, but the second 
is represented by a pale yellowish spot, the third, fourth, and fifth by round black spots set in 
large oval yellow patches. On the under surface of secondaries the median nervure and its 
branches and also tlie submedian are whitish ; all the transverse markings are whitish, the most 
conspicuous being the broad external border to dark brown subbasal transverse ba!id, which 
runs from costa to median nervure, and the costal portion of border to central transverse 
brown baud ; there are seven ocelli, all, except the seventh, with large white pupils. 
The female similar in colour and markings, but the yellow spots are rather larger, and the nervules 
are yellow as far as the blackish outer marginal area. 
Expanse, c? 80 millim., $ 84 millim. 
This species is generally distributed in Western China, occurring during 
the months of May and June and also in August ; it appears to be very 
constant both in colour and markings. 
Neope simulans. (Plate VIII. fig. 2, .) 
Neope simulans. Leech, Entomologist, xxiv., Suppl. p. 66 (Sept. 1891). 
Allied to X. chriati, Oberth., which it almost exactly resembles on the upper surface, but it is 
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