360 LYC.llNID.E. 
by a white line internally bordered with Mack, this line is divided by the nervules into eight 
portions, the lower set inwards ; marginal line is white, bordered inwardly with blackish, 
and preceded on the submarginal area by a series of black lunulated marks, bordered with 
whitish and extending from inner margin to just beyond the middle of the wing : secondaries 
have a white line, interrupted by the nervules and forming an open W before terminating on 
abdominal margin ; anal half of the outer marginal area reddish, enclosing a large velvetj- 
black spot placed in first median interspace and a bluish patch in suhmedian interspace ; anal 
lobe velvety black ; between the reddish colour aud costa there is a series of blackish spots 
bordered with white : marginal line white. 
Female rather browner than the male above and paler beneath : markings similar on the under 
surface. 
Expanse, S 40 millim., J 46 millim. 
Var. fixseni, var. nov. (Plate XXIX. figs. 2 5 , 3 (J .) In this form the sexes have, on the 
upper surface, a fulvous patch on the disc of the primaries, intersected by the nervules and 
some fulvous spots above anal angle. All these markings are much larger in the female than 
in the male. The under surface is typical. 
This species is distinguished £i-om T. lo-album by its larger size, longer 
tails, and more conspicuous red patches on anal lobe. On the under surface 
the white line of primaries is not angled inwards as in xo-album, and the 
angles of the W on secondaries are rounded ; the reddish band is broader and 
does not extend along the outer margin beyond the second median nervule. 
From T. grandis, Felder, it is separated on the upper surface by the more 
distinct sexual mark of the male, and on the under surface by the much less 
conspicuous black spots on submarginal area ; the spots in T. grandis are 
very large, well defined, and form a series from costa to inner margin on all 
the ^^^ngs. 
Fixsen's type of T. eximia was from Corea and that of Staudinger's affinis 
from Amurland. I have received specimens from Moupin, Wa-shan, and 
Wa-ssu-kow in Western China, and Dr. Staudinger has sent me a female 
specimen of affinis taken by Hertz in the neighbourhood of Pekin, which 
agrees exactly Avith some of my Western Chinese specimens of T. eximia. 
Thecla grandis. 
Thecla grandis, Felder, Wien. ent. Mon. vi. p. 24 (18G2). 
Thecla eretria, Hewitson, 111. Diurn. Lep. {Lycasnidm), p. 114, pi. xlii. fig. 153 (1869). 
"Alls supra fuscis, posticis linea marginal! interrupta alba, omnibus subtus multo pallidioribus, 
striga pone discum alba angusta, fusco intus cincta marginem internum versus valde refracta, 
maculis exterioribus nigricantibus albido cinctis, in posticis lunulis aurantiacis magnitudine 
increscentibus adnatis, his macula inter ramos primores medianos alfceraque anali atris, tertia 
inlerjeeta glauca. 
