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Wane !i iris jniniiitrc finement cercle do bruii, occupeut les angles. l<'ran;,'f des quatre 
ailcs brune, prcccdce d'un lisere orange limite iiitcrieurement aux inferieures jjar une fine 
ligne verdatrc argcntce. 
" Pliisiours males. Mou-Pin. (Poujade, I. c.) 
Female. Similar to the male, but the dark transverse band beyond the middle ot I he iirimarios is 
followed by a broad interrupted yellowish band. 
Occnu-s at Chang-yang, Central Chiua, in June, and at Moupin and Wa- 
shan, Western China, in June and July. 
Lethe gemina. (Plate xil. fig. 8, d .) 
Lethe gemina, Leech, Entomologist, xxiv., Suppl. p. 24 (1891). 
^fa^e. Pale brownish, darlier on the external margin of all the wings ; the primaries have a dusky 
angulatcd fascia beyond the middle, and a black spot ringed with fulvous towards apex : the 
secondaries have four large black submarginal spots, set in fulvous rings and arranged in 
]iairs : the fourth spot has a white centre, and the rings of the second and third are connected 
by a fulvous patch which encloses a small black dash in its upper portion ; there is a small 
black spot ringed with fulvous above anal angle, and a broad fulvous line, edged internally 
with black, and preceded by a greyish line parallel with outer margin. Under surface paler 
than above : the primaries have a broad pale violet-grey submarginal band from the apical 
ocellus to inner margin ; a fulvous line, bordered internally with black and pale violet-grey, 
parallel with outer margin : secondaries have a large ocellus at outer angle, and a similar 
one, together with a minuto one, at anal angle ; these ocelli are bordered with pale violet- 
grey, and preceded by a curved and angulated brown band; discal linear spot brown, 
followed by a pale violet>grey patch. 
Expanse, rf 56-60 millim., 2 TO millim. 
One male specimen captured at Moupin, in July, and four males and one 
female at Omei-shan. 
Lethe violaceopicta. (Plate III. figs. 5 d , 6 ? .) 
Dcbis violaceopicta, Poujade, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1884, p. clviii. 
Lethe calisto, Leech, Entomologist, xxiv., Suppl. p. 23 (1891). 
" Envergure : -52 mill.— Ailes superieures en triangle presque rectangle, ailes inferieures arrondies 
efc faiblement dentelees. 
" Dessus d'un brun Ic'gerement olivatre, uniforme. Ailes inferieures bordc'es d'un lisere fauve peu 
marquf?, surmonte de cinq taches triangulaires d'un brun noiratre. Franges blanches, entre- 
coupees de brun. 
" Bessous d'un brun olivatre, s'eclaircissant de la cote au bord interne aux ailes superieures ; 
celles-ci sent traversees par une scrie de taches pales peu accentuees, dispose'es en quart de 
cercle, partant do la cote un peu apres Textremite de la cellule et se dirigeant vers I'angle 
interne. Entre cette serie de taches et Tangle apical cxiste, au milieu, touchant ia cute, une 
tache lilas, triangulaire, allongee, un peu courbe et bOrdee exterieurement par trois yeux 
noirs largement pupilles de blanc, a iris fauvc. Les ailes inferieures sont plus foncecs vers le 
bord externc et traversees, lateralement au milieu, par une bande courbe, sinueuse, d'un brun 
veloute. Ease traversee, jusqu'au milieu, par (juatro ligncs transverses, tres irregulierement 
