TIIECLA. 361 
" Ningpo. — Fiiictim specimen pessime conservatum ante nos habemus. Tcrtia fere parte majus 
est quam Th. spxni, AVien. Vcrz., et al) omnibus speciebns europa;is costa alarum anti- 
carum omnino convexa ramo ultimo subcostali vix deflexo in costsc apicem escurrento 
caudisque longioribus discrepat.'' {Felder, l. c.) 
Felcler does not mention the sex of his type, but Dr. Rogenhofer has been 
good enough to send me a beautifully executed figure of the specimen, and 
from this it is distinctly seen to be a female. 
The male differs from the female in having tlie ground-colour darker and a 
well-defined sexual mark on the primaries, similar in shape to that of T. spini. 
The different formation of the sexual character will in itself serve to distin- 
guish this species from T. w-album. 
Hewitson also describes the female of this species under the name of 
eretria, as follows : — 
" Female. Dark brown. Posterior wing with two tails (one very short) ; the outer margin 
dark brown, with a submarginal line and the fringe white ; throe or four spots near the anal 
angle ; the lobe black, marked b)' a small scarlet spot. Underside rufous. Both wings 
crossed beyond the middle by a linear white baud, bordered inwardly with brown ; both 
wings with a band of dark brown spots, bordered on both sides with white, bisected on the 
posterior wing by bands of orange ; a large space of orange at the anal angle marked with 
a large black spot between the tails, the lobes black, the space between them brown irrorated 
with white ; both wings with the margin brown ; a submarginal line and the fringe white. 
"Expanse l-j-V inch. 
" In the Collection of tlic British Museum, from N. China." {Heivitson, I. c.) 
I have examples of both sexes of T. grandis from Kiukiang. It appears 
to be a scarce species, and, so far, has only been recorded from North China, 
Ningpo, and Kiukiang. 
Thecla pruni. 
Papilio pruni, Linnaeus, Faun. Suec. p. 283 (17G1) ; Esper, Schmett. i. 1, pi. xix. fig. 3, 
pi. xxxix. fig. 1 a ; Hiibner, Eur. Schmett. i. figs. 386, 387. 
Thecla pruni, Lang, Butt. Eur. p. 80, pi. sviii. fig. 1 (1884) ; Pryer, Ehop. Nihon, 
p. 15, pi. iv. fig. 15 (1887). 
" Expands 0-87 to 1-12 inch. Wings brownish black. The fore wings in the female, and sometimes 
in the male, exhibit faint traces of a brownish-orange band running parallel to the hind 
margin. The hind wings have a short tail somewhat like that of T. spini, and parallel to 
the hind margin is a row of well-defined semilunar spots of an orange-brown colour, 
decreasing as they approach the costa. The colour of the underside is paler than that above. 
The fore wings have a bluish-white interrupted line running from the costa to the inner 
margin. The hind wings have a similar line which does not assume a W-shape. The hind 
margin has an orange band bordered with bluish white, and having a row of black spots, one 
