34 NTMPHALID^. 
Appears to be generally distributed and not uncommon during June and 
July in Western China ; I have two males and one female from Chang-yang, 
where they were captured in August. 
Originally I compared this species with Debis armandina, Oberth., with 
which it certainly has many characters in common ; but I now find that it is 
more closely allied to Lethe tristigtnata, Elwes (Trans. Ent. Soc. 1887, p. 444 ; 
op. cit. 1888, pi. viii. fig. 1), as it resembles that species in the male mark on 
primaries. 
The follomng characters on the under surface, among others, readily 
distinguish it : the white apical mark on primaries, which in L. tristigmata 
is represented by four or five spots, and the dififerent arrangement of the 
transverse lines on the secondaries. 
Lethe ocellata. (Plate ill. fig. 3, ^ .) 
Debis ocellata, Poujade, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1885, p. x. 
Lethe simulans, Leech, Entomologist, xxiv., Suppl. p. 23 (1890). 
" Envergure : de 54 a 60 mill. — Dessiis brun clair legeremeut olivatre, laissant voir, par trans- 
parence, uno partie des lignes et taohes du dessous. Ailes superieures a bord externa un peu 
sinne, ayant line tache eufumee, plus ou moins vague, sur la base des deusieme et troisiomo 
branches de la nervure raediane. Inferieures coupees presque carrement, legerement dentees, 
la dent mddiane plus aeeusce, bordees de brun fonce partage par un liscrc fauve clair. Cinq 
laches du meme brun, rondes, inegales, correspondant aux ocelles du dessous, precedent la 
bordure. 
" Dessous du meme ton que celui du dessus, mais beaucoup plus clair ; ailes superieures partagees 
par une ligne sinueuse plus foncee, fondue iutcrieuremeut, parfcant de la cote un peu apres la 
cellule et se dirigeant vers Tangle interne. Deux lignos du meme ton occupcnt lateralemeufc 
la cellule. Une tache Ulas est situee a la cote pres de Tangle apical. Ailes inferieures 
partagees par deux lignes courbes tres siuueuses, plus foncees que le fond, bordees interieure- 
ment par uu filet pale et occupant lateralement un peu moins du tiers median. Deux ligues 
semblables, mais moins acoentuees, se trouvent a la base de Taile. Le bord externe est oriie 
de six yeux noirs pupille's de blanc a iris jaune et cercles de lilas, celui situe a Tangle interne 
est double. Bordure des qiiatre aUes fauve, precedee d'un lise're lilas parallele aux sinuosites 
de Taile. 
" Trois iS de Mou-l'in rapportes parM. Tabbe A. David. Collection du Museum.'" {PuKJade, Z. c.) 
L. simulans, Leech. — Male. Nearly allied to LetJie nitjr'ifascia. Leech, but much smaller in size and 
darker in colour ; the black transverse band of primaries is inconspicuous, and is not dilated 
at any part of its outer edge ; ou the secondaries the black marginal sj)ots are similar to 
those of L. nigrifascia. Fringes brown. Under surface greyish brown ; basal half of 
primaries darker, limited by a fairly broad brown fascia, which is not edged with paler as in 
L. nigrifascia ; there are two brownish bars in discal cell j all the ocelli of secondaries are 
distinctly ringed with bluish white. 
Expanse 60 millim. 
