SATSUMA. 355 
tlie wings, and by the white markings and bhickisli ground-colour of 
under surface of secondaries. 
Occurs sparingly in June and July at Ichang and Chang-yang in Central 
Cliina and at Chia-kou-ho in Western Cliina. 
Satsuma chalybeia. (Plate XXX. figs. 7 ? , 8 var. d .) 
Satsuma chulyhdu, Lcccli, Entomologist, xxiii. p. 43 (1890). 
Male. Pale blue ; costa, apical third, and outer margin of primaries black, as also are the fringes ; 
secondaries with an interrupted black submarginal band ; a broad black line before the black 
and grey fringes. Under surface gre}' dusted -with black atoms, basal half of primaries 
blackish; discoidal spot, central and submarginal wavy lines black; transverse band of second- 
aries occupying the central third of wing, blackish, limited by black wavy lines ; submarginal 
line black, undulating, followed by some obscure dusky spots. Fringes as above. 
Female. Similar to the male, but the black margins are more clearly defined. 
Expanse 32-33 millim. 
Differs from Satsuma {Thecia) fn'valdsz/ci/i, Ld., in having two distinct 
transverse lines on under surface of primaries, and in the absence of white 
markings on under surface of all the wings. 
The above description of the male refers only to specimens from Chang- 
yang, Central China, from which place I first received this species. I now 
have male examples of *S'. chaUjheia from several localities in Western China, 
and as these differ from the type I describe the form as var. yluto (Plate XXX. 
fig. 8) : — All the wings blackish, the basal area tinged with blue in one speci- 
men ; there is a pale blue submarginal line towards anal angle, and the anal 
lobe is brownish ; under surface brownish. The female is similar to the same 
sex from Central China. 
Occurs at Chang-yang, Central China, and at Wa-ssu-kow, Pu-tsu-fong, and 
Chow-pin-sa, Western China. It flies in June and July. 
Satsuma nicevillei, sp. nov. (Plate XXX. fig. 9, j .) 
Male. Black, with a dark bluish sheen iu certain lights ; the basal area of all the wings greyish 
blue, this colour extending in some specimens into the outer marginal area of secondaries ; 
the glandular patch is large, elongate, dark ; the anal lobe is tinged with brownish, and the 
abdominal margin above it is hollowed out ; there are indications of a bluish line on the outer 
margin. Fringe dark greyish. 
Female. Greyish blue ; the costa and outer margin of primaries broadly, and the outer margin of 
secondaries narrowly, bordered with black ; anal lobe and excavation above as in the male. 
Under surface of both sexes : primaries ochreous brown, broadly streaked with grey along the inner 
margin ; a narrow black transverse line from the costa, just beyond the middle of the wing. 
