PARARGE. 
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that the species was discovered in August 1886 at Hu-chan-men, in 
Yunnan, by the Rev. P. Delavay. 
Genus PARARGE. 
Pararge, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 59 (1816); Marshall & de Niceville, Butt. 
Ind. i. p. 177 (1882). 
" Differs but slightly from Lasiommata in having the median nervure of the fore winrj but very 
slightly swollen at the base ; the outer margin of the fore wing is scarcely sinuate, and the 
inner margin is longer than the outer. The sexes are identical in markings, but differ some- 
what in aspect, owing to all the black markings being far more prominent in the female. 
The MALE has no sexual patches of raised scales or tufts of hairs on the wings," {Marshall 
S( de Niceville, I. c.) 
Pararge dumetorum. 
Pararge dumetorum, Oberthiir, Etud. d'Entom. xi. p. 23, pi. iv. fig. 20 (1886). 
Pararge nemorum, Oberthiir, Etud. d'Entom. xiii. p. 42, pi. ix. fig. 103 (1890). 
Pararge dumetorum, y&v. fulvescens, Alpheraky, Rom. sur Lep. v. p. 118 (1889). 
Male. Dark fuliginous brown, blackish on the outer mai-gin of all the wings ; there is a whitish 
dash in the cell of primaries, and a longer, angulated, and interrupted one beyond the cell ; 
submarginal band represented by seven white spots, the first three are contiguous, the fourth 
minute and placed on the outer edge of a fairly well-formed ocellus, the fifth is equal in size 
to those nearest the costa, the sixth is indistinct, and the seventh has a black centre ; secon- 
daries have two complete ocelli, one in each of the median interspaces, and there are indi- 
cations of other ocelli in the interspaces above. Under surface pale olive-brown, with the 
markings of primaries similar to those on upper surface : the secondaries have some white 
basal and subbasal spots, the latter often united, forming a transverse band ; the basal two 
thirds defined by a broad whitish band, deeply indented on its inner edge ; the marginal 
area beyond this band is paler and traversed by a series of six complete ocelli, but the third 
is rather small. Fringes white, broadly chequered with the ground-colour at the extremities 
of the nervures. 
The female does not differ in colour or marking from the male. 
Expanse 46-52 millim. 
Widely distributed in Western China, and not uncommon in some places 
in June and July, occurring at various altitudes between 5000 and 10,000 
feet. 
In the variety nemorum, Oberth., the typical white markings on the upper- 
side of primaries are absent, with the exception of a whitish spot on the 
costa representing the central band and the three contiguous spots of the 
submarginal band. 
This form was taken by the Rev. P. Delavay in Yunnan. 
