356 LTaENID.E. 
terminates at tlie first median nervule ; secondaries ratber redder than primaries ; basal area 
darker, its outer limit not clearly defined; submarginal line blackish and interrujited. 
Expanse, J 32 millim., $ 30 millim. 
The female of this species is very similar to a female Satsuma from the 
Khasi Hills which Mr. de Nice villa has figured and described but not named*. 
In the Indian species, however, the anal angle is not lobed as in S. 'nicevillei, 
it also exhibits the follomng differences of colour and marking: — Upper 
surface : the black border of costa and outer margin of primaries is rather 
narrower ; the black outer marginal border of secondaries is represented by a 
dash at anal angle ; the fringes are whitish, distinctly chequered with black at 
the extremities of the nervules. Under surface ferruginous bro^vn ; central 
line of primaries edged with white, as also is the lower portion of tlie 
limiting line of the dark basal area of secondaries. 
Probably it will ultimately be proved that S. nicevillei and the unnamed 
insect just referred to are specifically identical, but it seems advisable to leave 
them separate at present. 
I have two males and one female taken by a native collector at Chang-yang, 
Central China, at an elevation of GOOO feet. 
Genus THECLA. 
Theda (part.), Fabricius, Illiger's Magazin, vi. p. 286 (1807); Westwood, Gen. Diurii. 
Lep. ii. p. 481 (1852) ; de Niceville, Butt. lad. iii. p. 297 (1890). 
"■Fore ivinj subtriangular ; costa arched at the base, then nearly straight to the apex; apex 
rather acute, slightly more rounded in the female than in the male ; outer margin slightly 
convex or straight ; inner margin straight ; costal nervure ending exactly opposite the 
termination of the discoidal cell ; first subcostal nervule given off from the subcostal nervure 
rather beyond the middle of the cell, second subcostal originating at about one third from the 
apex of the cell in the male, at about one fifth in the female ; subcostal nervure reaching the 
apex of the wing : upper discocellular nervule absent in both sexes, middle discocellular 
straight, arising in the male from the upper discoidal nervule some distance beyond its origin, 
arising in the female exactly at its point of origin, lower discocellular of the same length as 
the upper, straight ; second median nervule originating some little distance before the lower 
end of the cell; submedian nervure nearly straight. Male furnished with an elongated 
narrow shining black patch of differently formed scales from those on the rest of the wing at 
the anterior end of the discoidal cell, which patch is bounded anteriorly by the basal portion 
of the second subcostal nervule, and extends slightly into the cell and beyond its end. 
" Hind wing ovate, all the margins rounded, furnished with a somewhat long narrow tail at the 
* ' Bombay Natural History Journal,' vi. pp. 374-37C, pi. F. fig. 17 (ISDl). 
