386 LTCJiNID^. 
Zephyrus melpomene. (Plate xxvill. fig. 14, d .) 
Dipsas melpomene, Leech, Entomologist, xxiii. p. 41 (1890). 
Pale orange-bro-wn ; apex of primaries, tail, and anal angle of secondaries black. Under surface 
rather browner than above ; primaries streaked with whitish along the inner margin, 
discoidal bar and submarginal line darker, the latter faintly edged externally with whitish : 
secondaries with dark discoidal bar edged with whitish ; submarginal line white, curved, and 
slightly indented before abdominal margin, followed by a paler shade of the ground-colour ; a 
spot between second and third median nervules and one at anal angle black ; the marginal 
border is of the ground-colour, intersected by a paler line to the second median nervule, then 
pale reddish orange to the abdominal margin ; fringes of the ground-colour, preceded by 
a darker line to the second median nervule, from which point to the anal angle the fringes 
are white, preceded by a black line, which traverses the tail to the white tip. 
Expanse 40 millim. 
One example captured at Chang-yang in August. 
Allied to Z. jonasi, Janson, but easily distinguished therefrom by the 
different character of the apical patch of primaries above and the markings 
on the under surface of secondaries ; the tails are longer and more slender. 
Zepliyrus liitea. 
Dipsas lutea, Huwitsou, 111. Diuru. Lep. p. 67, pi. xxvi. figs. 9, 10 (1865) ; Fryer, Rliop. 
Nihon. p. 13, pi. iv. fig. 4 (1886). 
" Female. TJpperside orange. Anterior wing with the outer margins brown. Posterior wing with 
the tail, the outer margin near it, and a spot at the anal angle dark brown. Underside orange. 
Anterior wing crossed by two rufous bands bordered with white ; a spot of brown near the 
anal angle. Posterior wing pale rufous brown, crossed by two hnes of silvery white ; a sub- 
marginal band of orange bordered inwardly by lunular white spots margined with black, and 
outwardly by a line of small black spots ; a black spot near the base of the tail, and also at 
the anal angle ; the o\iter margin brown, the fringe white. Exp. 1-Lg- inch." (Hewitson, 
I c.) 
I took this species, together with Z. Jonasi, near Hakodate in August. 
Pryer records it from Yokohama, Nikko, Yesso, and Asama-yama, and gives 
the time of its appearance as May and June. 
Staudinger records httea from various parts of Amurland (Rom. sur Lep. vi.), 
and says that the specimens do not differ from those from Japan. 
Zephyrus seraphim. 
Thecia seraphim, Obertliiir, Bull. Sec. Ent. Fr. 1886, p. xii ; Etud. d'Eiitom. xi. 
p. 19, pi. V. fig. 37 (1886). 
"Appartient au groupe dcs Theda jonasi, httea, sa-pcstriata. Les ailes superieures en dessus sout 
du memo fanve orange que dans ccs trois especes, mais la T. seraphim est plus petite et d'uue 
