APATUEA. 
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Female. Similar to the male, but the secondaries have a distinct whitish central fascia, which is 
almost straight, and becomes attenuated towards anal angle. 
Occurs at Omei-slian, June aud July, and also in the Province of Kwei- 
chow. 
On the upper surface the female of this species has a great likeness to 
the same sex of ^. iris, but the band on secondaries and greenish suffusion on 
all the Avings distinguish it at once. 
Apatura pallas. (Plate XV. fig. 5, c? .) 
Apatura pallas, Leech, Entomologist, xxiii. p. 190 (1890). 
Male. Blackish brown, with black, white, and pale fulvous markings. Primaries thii kly sprinkled 
with fulvous scales on basal third, beyond which is a transverse series of four fulvous spots 
preceded by an irregular black band ; the spot nearest the costa is darker than the others, 
and is followed by a large triangular black spot ; there are three fulvous spots at outer 
extremity of discal cell, and below these a fulvous spot in each median interspace, — that in 
the first has a whitish centre, the other is preceded by a round black spot, before the apex 
there arc two whitish spots (the upper one is round), the spots forming the submarginal 
series are fulvous, but not well defined towards costa. Secondaries : basal half clothed with 
silky grey-brown hairs, and limited by a fulvous transverse interrupted band ; the inner 
portion of this band becomes indistinct after passing the second median nervule, but the outer, 
though most broken up, is continued to the first median nervule, enclosing a well-defined 
black spot in nervular interspace ; a black band, bi'oad towards costa and tapering towards 
anal angle, precedes a fulvous submarginal band which is intersected by the nervules, as also 
is a broad fulvous line ou outer margin. Fringes white between the nervules. Under surface 
pale olive-green ; the markings of primaries are as above, but the fulvous gives place to white 
or whitish, and the black spot in second median interspace is encircled with fulvous : 
secondaries pale olive-green ; basal area washed with greyish, and bounded by an olive-bi-own 
transverse tapering band ; from the inner edge of this band, which is broadly bordered with 
silvery white, a spur runs inwards aud upwards above the median nervure ; there is a well- 
defined ocellus on the second median interspace, aud above it is a series of silvery- white 
spots : the interrupted submarginal band is of the same colour, as is also a fainter line which 
traverses the pale olive-brown outer margin. 
Expanse 78 millim. 
One male specimen taken at Chia-kou-ho, in July, at an elevation of 
1700 feet. 
On the upper surface this species is not unlike A. iris, var. hieti, Oberthiir 
(Etud. d'Ent. xi. p. 18, pi. iii. fig. 15), but the fulvous spots are much paler, 
and the black spot on primaries is not ocellated and is less conspicuous ; the 
fascia on secondaries is naiTower, and has the inner edge curved, and there is 
no purple reflection on these wings. On the under surface A. pallas is quite 
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