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NYMPHALID^. 
unlike any species of the genus with which I am acquainted, but the markings 
of secondaries bear a superficial resemblance to those of Argynnis papMa. 
Apatura subalba. (Plate XV. fig. 3, c? .) 
Apatura subalba, Poujade, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1885, p. ccvii ; Leech^ Trans. Ent. Soc. 
Lond. 1889, p. 108. 
*' Envergure : 65 mill. — Dessus d'un brun clair. Ailes supcrieures en triangle rectangle 
allonge, a peine dentees, ayant quatre taches blanches arrondies : I'une aux deux tiers du 
bord costal, suivie d'une autre se dirigeant obliquement vers le bord externa, les autres paral- 
K'les aux deux premiores et situees presque au milieu de I'aile ; une cinquieme, a peine 
marquee, est placee sur la uervure sous-mcdiane, immediatement au-dessous da la tache 
centrale. Ailes infcrieures a bord externe presque droit, assez fortement dente, borde d'un 
liscre brun fonco nuageux, pai'allele aux denticulations ; bord costal orne, au dernier tiers, de 
deux taches blanches superposees. 
" Dessous d'un blanc soyeux, a reflets irises ; une tache brune, a peu pres de la forme du chifFre 2, 
surmontee d'un point de mOme coulcur, est situee presque a Tangle interne de I'aile supo'rieure ; 
les taches blanches du dessus apparaissent en blanc mat." {Poujade, 1. c.) 
The type, a small female in very poor condition, is in the Paris Museum. 
It was taken by Abbe David in Moupin. The male has rather sharper 
primaries, otherwise the sexes do not differ. 
In some examples of both sexes the white spots of costal area on upper 
surface of secondaries are either faint or entirely absent. On the under 
surface of the secondaries of one specimen there is a large C-like spot, out- 
lined with black, at anal angle and a blackish spot above it in the first median 
interspace. 
Occurs in Western China in June, July, and August, and has been received 
from Wa-shan, Chia-kou-ho, Moupin, and Huang-mu-chang. In Central 
China it has been found at Kiukiang in May and June, and at Ichang and 
Chang-yang in July. 
Although it seems to be widely distributed, this species does not appear to 
be anywhere common. 
Apatura fulva. (Plate XV. fig. 2, c? .) 
Aputaru J'alvu, Leech, Entomologist, xxiv., Suppl. p. 30 (1801) ; Grose Smith & Kirby, 
llhopal. Exot. pt. xix. [Apatura) p. 2, pi. i. figs. 5, G, J* (1892). 
Male. I'ale fulvous, with 1)ro\viiisli markings. Trimaries have a largo blackish-brown patch at 
end of discoidal cell, and around spot of the samo colour in first median interspace ; there are 
two jxile Hi)()tH in tho apical third, whicli is fuscous ])rowu ; a band of the same colour is 
continued alongthe outer margir), but terminates just beyond tho first median interspace, and 
