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basal joint half the length of the tarsus, with but a few very short spines on the underside. 
Ungues vcrj" much curved. Paron)'chia very slender. 
" Abuomex small. 
" The liiiirj- eyes, slender elougated palpi, dilated base of tlio costal vein of 
the fore wings, the middle and outer discoccllular veins of nearly equal length, 
and tlie acute termination of the discoidal cell of the hind wings by the 
junction of the outer discoccllular vein with the median vein at the origin of 
its third branch, are the chief characters of this genus." {WesUoood, I. c.) 
Lethe? epimenides. 
Lasiommala epimenides, Meuetries, Schrenck's Reisen, p. 39, pi. iii. figs. 8, 9 (1859) ; 
Pryer, Rhop. Nihon. p. .31, pi. ix. fig. 9. 
Neopefentoni, Butler, Aun. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) xix. p. 91 (1877). 
Pararge epimenides, Meuetries, var. ? epaminondas, Staudinger, Rom. sur Lep. iii. p. 150, 
pi. xvii. fig. 1 [epaminondas), fig. 2 [epimenides') (1887). 
Pararge epimenides, Fixsen, Rom. sur Lep. iii. p. 313. 
" Alls denticulatis, cinereo-fuscis, subtus pallide-flavescentibus ; anticis maculis duabus flavidis, 
atque ocello unico interposito, in fem. fascia maeulari flavida ; posticia sex ocellatis, ocellis 
omnibus uigris, albo-pupillatis, flavo-cinctis : illis subtus basi strigis angulatis fuscis, ocellis 
sub plaga albescenti positis : Imo (antico) majore, 2, 3, minimis extus distantibus, ultimo 
(anali) pupilla gemiuata. Enverg. 2 po.-2 po. 2 lign." {Meiwtries, 7. c.) 
Menetries (l. c.) figured both sexes of epimenides, placing the species in 
the genus Lasiommafa. Staudinger considers it a Pararge. Butler formed 
the conclusion that the two sexes represent distinct species belonging to 
different genera, and renamed the female Neope fentoni, leawng the male in 
the genus Lasiommata. Elwes (P. Z. S. 1881, p. 907) places the species in 
Lethe, to which genus it seems to have close affinities. Its nearest ally is, 
hoAvever, Pararge roxelana, Cr., a species occurring commonly in several 
parts of S.E. Europe and Asia Minor. 
Occurs in Central and Western China and mountainous districts of Central 
and Northern Japan. In the Corea (according to Fixsen) the var. epaminondas, 
as well as the type is found, as also in Amurland. 
Lethe chandica. (Plate III. figs. 7 d , 8 $ , vars.) 
Debts chandica, Moore, Ilorsfield & Moore, Cat. Lep. E.I.C. i. p. 219 (1857). 
Lethe chandica, Marshall & de Niceville, Butt. Ind. i. p. 149 (1882). 
As Chinese specimens of this species exhibit well-marked varietal differ- 
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