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fourth, an irregular white blotch ; fifth and sixth, large black spots surrounded with pale 
fulvous ; seventh, a large pale fulvous patch. The secondaries are dark brown suffused with 
purplish, with blackish ill-defined transverse lines on the basal half of the wing ; the limiting 
line is blackish, sinuate, bordered outwardly with whitish and inwardly with pale brown, and 
unites with a fairly large black spot about the centre of the wing ; the ocelli are seven in 
number, and arranged in a true curve. Clubs of antennoe are black, tipped with reddish ; in 
N. bremeri the clubs are entirely reddish. The sexes do not differ in appearance. 
Expanse 80 millim. 
The type, a female, was taken by Mr. Pratt at Omei-shan in July 1889. 
In 1890 Messrs. Pratt and Kricheldorff obtained a long series, chiefly males, 
at Omei-shan, Pu-tsii-fong, Moupin, and Chow-pin-sa in June, and at Wa- 
ssu-kow in June and July, 
Neope goschkevitschii. 
Lasiommata goschkevitschii, Menetries, Cat. Mas. Petr. ii. p. 121, pi, x. fig. 4 (1855). 
Lasiommata gaschkevitschii, Felder, Wien. entom. Mon. vi. p. 28 (1862). 
Neope niphonica, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) vii. p. 133 (1881), 
Neope gaschkevitschii, Pryer, Rliop. Nihon. p. 32, pi. ix. fig. 11. 
''Neope niphonica, Butl. — Allied to N, gasclikevitschii, rather smaller and shorter in wing ; above 
considerably darker, with orange, instead of white fringe. Primaries below yellower, all the 
markings thicker and darker, the discoidal markings more uniform, the third being less zigzag 
or 3-shaped ; secondaries with the discal ocelli smaller, and far more uniform in size ; the 
base, abdominal area, subbasal spots, central belt, and external area filled in with blackish 
olivaceous ; the external area washed with lilac ; the pale band just in front of the ocelli 
spotted with brown and tinted with lilacine below the angle. Expanse of wings 2 inches 
7-8 linos." {Butler, I. c.) 
Common all over Japan. There are several broods, and some specimens are 
much darker than others. 
The species is very fond of settling on tree-trunks with its wings folded, 
and is very difficult to see when resting in tliis way, because of its colouring 
l)eing in harmony with the bark upon which it is sitting. 
Neope pulaha. (Plate Vlll. fig, 8, var,) 
LasioDinialn '{ jmlaha, Moore, Cat. Lep. I'j. I. C. i. p. 227 (1857). 
Neope indaha, Marshall & dc Niceville, JJutt. Ind. i. p. 170, pi, xi. fig. 25. 
Neope ramosa, Lcccli, Entomologist, xxiii. p. 29 (1890). 
Chinese specimens of this species vary considerably in size, ranging from 
04 to 90 millim. Compared with the type the colour of uj)pcr surface is 
