20 NTMPHALID^. 
ences ■when compared with Indian specimens, I describe the Chinese 
form as — 
Var. COelestis, var. nov. (Plate IIT. figs. 7 c? , 8 ? .) 
Hale. Agrees -witli the Indian form on the upper surface, but some specimens have the outer 
margin of secondaries broadly bordered with ferruginous. On the under surface all the wings 
are suffused with violet-grey, especiall}" the outer two thirds of primaries and central and 
marginal areas of secondaries ; costal half of the central transverse line of secondaries is 
angulated but hardly curved ; following this line are some yellowish spots as in the type. All 
the ocelli are of nearly equal size, and smaller than in the t3'pe. 
Female. The red of upper surface is rather deeper in tone, and the ocelli on secondaries, except the 
second, smaller ; on the under surface the brown colour of basal two thirds is less broken by 
paler markings ; the outer third of primaries agrees with the Indian form, but on the 
secondaries the ocelli are smaller, and there are some ferruginous markings on the outer 
margin. 
One male example is a curiously aberrant specimen ; the outer half of 
primaries and two thirds of secondaries above are pale brown, and the under 
surface of all the wings is pale brown suffused with faint violet-grey ; the ocelli 
of primaries are mostly obsolescent, and those on secondaries are very small. 
Commonly distributed throughout Central and Western China. I also took 
specimens at Foochau in April 1886. According to Marshall and de Niceville 
it is plentiful in vSikkira and occurs in the Khasi Hills, Sylhet, Manipur, Upper 
Tenasserim, and Shillong. 
Lethe europa. 
Papilio europa, Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 500 (1775). 
Debis europa, Hewitsou, Jouni. Linu. Soc, Zool. viii. p. 143 (1865). 
Papilio arete, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 313. figs. E, F (1780), J. 
Papilio beroe, Cramer, Pap. lixot. i. pi. 79. figs. C, D (1779), $ . 
Lethe europa, Marshall & de Nic('ville, Butt. Ind. i. p. 14-9 (1882) ; Distant, llhop. Malay, 
p. 43, pi. V. fig. 5 c? , 6 ? (1882) . 
" Male. TJpperside dull brown. Fore wing with an incomplete pale band from the costa just 
beyond the cell, and coincident with the white inner band below, nearly obsolete in some 
specimens : a trifid whitish spot with a pale ochreous spot below it near the apex ; two 
oehreous marginal interrupted lines edged with dusky, broadly internally. Hind wing also 
with two ochreous marginal lines defined with dusky, broadly bordered with dusky internally ; 
a row of submarginal black spots sometimes obsolete, that near the apex coalescing with the 
dusky margin. Underside with the basal area dark umber -brown, crossed by a prominent 
silvery white subbasal streak on both wings. Fore wing with a white oblique transverse 
discal band tinged with yeUow, joined at the middle by a pale band from the apex, forming 
together a Y-shaped figure, and enclosing a dark brown triangular patch ; a row of six ocelli 
