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sinueuses, d'un lilas soyeux ; bord externe orne de six yeux noirs pupilles de blanc, a iris 
orano-e, et largement cerclos de lilas, celui qui est situe a I'augle interne, forme de deuxpetits 
yeux contigus. Bordure des quatre ades fauve, finement limitee de bruu et precedee d'un 
lise're lilas parallele aux sinuosites des ailes. Antennas brunes, annelees de blanc ; corps et 
pattes d'un brun verdiitre. 
" Deux cJ de Mou-Pin, captures par M. I'abbe David. — Coll. du Museum." (Poujade, I. c.) 
Lethe calisio, Leech. — Male. Allied to LeiJie niceias. Hew., with which species it agrees in many 
respects, but may be distinguished therefrom by the rounder wings, absence of any red in 
the composition of the brown coloration of all the wings, and of black spots on secondaries ; 
further, the primaries are devoid of markings, and the fringes of all the wings are white 
chequered with blackish. On the under surface the primaries are fuscous grey-brown, with 
markings similar to those of L. nicetas : the secondaries are gre)'-brown, with the basal half 
traversed by four silvery-lilac lines ; the outermost of these lines, sinuate to first median 
nervule and bidentate between that point and the abdominal margin, is followed by a dark 
brown band, which is broad towards costa and attenuated towards abdominal margin ; there 
are no yellow markings between this band and the well-formed ocelli, which are placed 
further from the margin. 
Female. Primaries have a yellow macular submarginal band, slightly angulated below costa, and a 
short oblique band, of the same colour, from middle of costa extending almost to the sub- 
marginal band ; there is a black spot at outer angle of secondaries. On the under surface of 
secondaries there are some yellow spots, as in the same sex of L. niccias. 
Expanse, d GO millim., ? C4miUim. 
Appears to be a scarce species. I have only received eight male specimens 
and one female ; these were taken at Omei-shan, Wa-shan, and Pu-tsu-fong 
in June and July 1889. M. Poujade's types are from Moupin. 
Lethe siderea. 
Lethe siderea, Marshall, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beug. xlix. p. 246 (1880) ; Marshall & de 
Niceville, Butt. Ind. i. p. 159 (1882) ; Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. Loud. 1888, p. 315, 
pi. ix. fig. 3. 
" Male. Differs from L. sidonis, d , in being smaller, and in the uniform absolutely spotless upper 
surface, somewhat darker towards the outer margin. Underside uniform brown. Fore wing 
entirely wanting the discal bands and the whitish spots on the costal margin ; the only mark- 
ings being three minute submarginal white spots beyond the cell, the middle one faintly 
ringed with black ; a single yellowish marginal line edged on both sides with dark brown, 
and within this a distinct sdvery-lilac submarginal line extending from the apex to the second 
median nervule. Hind wing with all the sUvery streaks brighter and distinctly lilac ; the 
submarginal silvery line very slightly dilated at the anal angle ; the ocelli all blacker and 
less prominently pupilled with white. The second and third ocelli much nearer the margin 
than the others, giving the line of ocelli a strong curve outwards, the silvery band within 
following this curve, and deeply sinuated outwards beyond the cell; the ground-colour being 
uniform brown, scarcely at all darkened at the edges of the silvery lines. The hind wingless 
distinctly caudate. Expanse 2-1 inches." {Marshall ^C de Niceville, I. c.) 
