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uniformly darker, and the maculation is paler yellow. On the under surface 
the white markings are broader and more conspicuous. The males received 
from Chang-yang in 1S89 appeared to be more closely allied to Neope (S.) 
goschkemtschii, Men., and were described by me under the name of N. ramosa. 
However, now that I have seen an extensive series of Chinese specimens I 
am unable to find any specific difference between I'ainosa and jmlaha, conse- 
quently the former will have to take its place as a local form of the latter. 
Var. ramosa. (ri. YIII. fig. 8, c? .) Closely allied to S. ijoscU-evitsclui, Mon., from Japan, but the 
ground-colour is dark chocolate-brown, the spots on primaries are smaller, nearly orbicular, 
pale yellowish buff in colour, and each pair between the median nervules separated by a 
quadrate blackish spot. Secondaries have two pale yellowish-bufF longitudinal patches and 
three spots ; each of the former encloses an obscure ocellus, and the latter are arranged in a 
longitudinal series ; below are three black spots decreasing in size to the anal angle, the first is 
partially, the second distinctly, and the third indistinctly surrounded with pale yellowish buff. 
Under surface blackish, variegated with white and yellowish buff ; primaries have a white- 
centred black spot enclosed in a M hitish ring near apex, and below this is a nearly s(juare 
white spot followed by two pairs of yellowish-bufF spots as above : secondaries have three basal 
spots as in S. (joscJil-evitschii, but they are paler in colour and the lower one is much larger; 
the central band is greyish, very irregular in shape and bordered on each side with white. 
Expanse 90 millira. 
Two males taken in June and July, at Chang-yang. 
A widely distributed species in Western China, occurring in July and 
August. In Central China it has only been found at Chang-yang. Colonel 
Lang states that in the Himalayas this species frequents dark forests of oak, 
sycamore, and horse-chestnut, affecting shade and pitching on trunks of 
trees (Ent. Mo. Mag. i. p. 182). 
Neope agrestis. (Plate Vn. fig. 7, var.) 
Satyrus agrestis, Obertliiir, Etud. crEiitom. ii. p. 27, pi. ii. figs. Za,b (187G). 
Male. Deep fuliginous brown ; the venation yellowish on disc of primaries ; beyond the cell there 
is a pale yellow oblique dash from the costa, and two spots of the same colour nearer the apex; 
five submarginal pale yellow spots — the first, third, and fourth each with a large black 
centre, the filth with a small black dot : secondaries have a broad fulvous band on submar- 
ginal area reaching to the first median nervule, this band is interrupted by the nervules, and 
intersected by a series of large black spots which are united towards costa ; a black spot 
ringed with fulvous above anal angle ; fringes white chequered with dark brown at tips of 
the nervules. Under surface of primaries fuliginous grey, the cell is crossed by two broad 
bars, and fiUed up with pale fulvous, there is a pale fulvous cloud below yellowish median 
ner^^re ; the ocelli, costal, and apical markings as above : secondaries fuliginous grey-brown, 
with three subbasal yellow spots ; an ill-defined dark velvety angulated central fascia, which, 
