AMECERA. 
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confined to mountain districts. It is also found in Yesso. The habits of the 
imago are sluggish, and its flight weak, and although widely distributed it 
does not appear to be common anywhere. 
Genus AMECERA. 
Amecera, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) xix. p. 162 (1867). 
Lasiommata, part., Westwood. 
" AliE anticfe margiae postico minime undato nec apud apicem aiigulato ; posticaj valde elongate, 
margins postico vix siuuato ; aliter velut in Lasiommata; venis velut in Lffsjo//i);ia^«, cella 
autem posticarum breviore. 
" Corpus antennia magis elongatis et tenuioribus, clava pyriformi compressa ; palpis articulo 
apicali magis elongato. Type A. mer/cera." (Butler, I. c.) 
Amecera majuscula, sp. n. (Plate XII. fig. G, d .) 
Male. Fuscous. Primaries with a large bipupillated subapical ocellus placed rather oblitjucly, 
iris pale fulvous, broadest on its outer edge, and bordered inwardly with paler ; secondaries 
have three ocelli, but the irides are dull in colour and not always well defined ; all the wings 
have a dark band on outer margin, intersected by a pale transverse line. Fringes white, 
marked with fuscous at the extremities of the nervules. Under surface of primaries grey, 
broadly suffused with pale fulvous on the outer half of the wings below ocellus ; the discoidal 
cell is crossed by two dark bars and closed by a third, and there is a dark oblique line imme- 
diately beyond the end of the cell ; a pale ochreous band on the outer margin is bordered 
inwardly by a sinuate black line, and intersected by a black transverse line : secondaries pale 
grey, traversed by two wavy dark lines ; there are six submarginal ocelli, each with an inner 
and outer ring of brown ; the sixth is compound ; a pale outer marginal band intersected and 
bordered as on primaries. 
Female. Similar to the male, but the iris of ocellus on primaries is paler and set in a band of the 
same colour ; this band is intersected by the third median nervule, and its lower extremity is 
represented by a detached spot in the submedian interspace. Secondaries and under surface 
as in the male. 
Expanse, 68 millim., 2 62-G8 millim. 
Allied to the Indian A. schaJcra and to A. mwra from Europe, but its large 
size separates it at once from either of these species. From A. scliakra it is 
further distinguished by its large bipupillated ocellus on primaries. 
This species does not appear to be common in Western China. I have 
received it from Ta-chien-lu, Pu-tsu-fong, Wa-ssu-kow, Chia-ting-fu, and also 
from How-kow in Thibet. It is found in June and July, and occurs up to 
an elevation of 10,000 feet. 
