352 LYC.EXID.E. 
According to Mr. cle Niceville the males are very common in Sikkim in 
June and October. M]-. Elwes (/. c.) figm-es a female specimen which he 
took in August at Rikisum, 6000 feet elevation, in British Bhotan. He also 
records the species from the Jaintia Hills. 
Genus SATSUMA. 
Satsuma, Murray, Eiitom. Mouth. Mag. xi. p. 168 (1875). 
" Oculi sat magni pilosi. Palpi valde pilosi, porrecti. Anteniife graciles, sat longte, distincHssime 
albo-annulatoe, in clavam distinctam subito desinentes. Aloe angulatae, anticDe vena subcostali 
triramosa, postice ad angulum analem valde produotse. 
" Head of moderate size ; e\'es hairy ; palpi moderately long, porrect, densely clothed with long 
hairs, terminal joint slender ; autenuse rather long, slender, white-ringed, with distinct fusi- 
form club. 
" Thorax robust. Wings triangular, elbowed on hind margin, especially the hind wing, which 
possesses a distinct lobe at anal angle. 
" Male with a small, almost linear, patch on fore wing at extremity of ceU, similar to that observed 
in many species of Thecla. 
" Hind wing with a distinct groove to receive abdomen. Fringes spotted." {Murran, ?. c) 
This genus was founded by the Rev. R. P. Murray for the reception of the 
species described by Mr. Butler as " Lyccena " ferrea, which has been con- 
sidered identical with the " Thecla " frimldszkyi of Lederer and the " Thecla " 
ccerulescens of Motschulsky. This determination is, however, partly erro- 
neous, SiS frivaldszlyi is certainly specifically distinct ^ovo. ferrea ; but it is not 
possible to judge from the description whether Motschulsky's ccerulescens is 
referable to either of these ; as, however, the specimen was said to be from 
Japan it is probably S. ferrea. 
In 1890 I added two new species to the genus, i. e. »S'. chalyleia and 
S. pratti, both from Central China. A fifth species w^as indicated by Mr. de 
Niceville in the ' Bombay Natural History Joarnal,' 1891, and this may turn 
out to be the same as S. nicevillei from Central China described by me in the 
present work, but as Mr. de Niceville has not named his insect, synonymy will 
not be involved. S. circe, from Western China, also described in these pages, 
increases the number of kno^vn species of the genus Satsuma to seven. 
The species of Satsuma may be grouped as follows : — 
a. Male mark small and pale in colour S. chalybeia. 
b. „ „ large „ „ „ S. ferrea and S. circe. 
c. „ „ small „ dark „ S.friva/dszkyi and S. pratti. 
(I. ,, ,, large „ ,, ,, -S. nicevillei. 
