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contexture plus dc'licate. L'apex des ailes superieures est marque d'une tache iioiratre tri- 
angulaire. Le bord ostcrieur est iiiiemeut lisere dc noiratre. 
" En dessous, seraphim differe de lutea par Fabsence sur le disque des ailea des lignes blanches qui 
distinguent lutea. Le milieu des ailes dans seraphim est d'un fauve orange absolument uui. 
Le bord esterieur est seulemeut decore, a peu pres comme daus lutea, mais d'une maniere 
moins acoentuee, par une ligne blanche dont la direction est a peu pres parallele au bord 
exterieur; cctte ligne blanche se termine en chevrons internervuraux d'autant plus aigus 
qu'on se rapproche davantage de Tangle anal. Entre cette ligne efc le bord exterieur, il-y-a 
des points noirs intra-nervuraux, plus ou moins entoures ou meme envahis de blano, ressortanfc 
sur un fond plus orange que le fond meme des ailes. La tache de Tespace nervural ante- 
anal est la plus noire et la plus grosse de toutes. Le bord des ailes inferieures est lisere 
d'une triple ligne noire, blanche et noire. L'appendioe caudal ordinaire est assez long, fin et 
noir." {OherthUr, I. c, Bull. Soe. Eat. Fr.) 
The spot at anal angle is entirely absent in some examples, and in some 
specimens there are indications of a black spot at outer angle of secondaries. 
Appears to be a common species in many parts of Western China, 
occiuTing in June and July above 10,000 feet. I have received it from 
Omei-shan, Ta-chien-lu, Ni-tou, Wa-shan, Che-tou, and Pu-tsu-fong. 
Zephyrus minerva. (Plate XXVIII. fig. 12, ? .) 
Dipsas minerva, Leech, Entomologist, xxiii. p. 40 (1890). 
Female. Pale orange-brown; outer margin of primaries narrowly bordered with black, broader at 
the apex. Secondaries with a black spot on outer margin between second and third median 
nervules, and another at anal angle ; fringes grey, darker at the tips and extremities of 
nervules, preceded by a black line, which traverses the taU. to the white tip. Under surface 
rather paler than above : primaries with an interrupted white submargiual line, edged 
internally mth black, followed by a series of white lunules, edged externally with black, and 
enclosing reddish-orange spots : secondaries have a white submargiual line, edged internally 
■with black, with three deep indentations before abdominal margin, followed by an undulated 
black-edged white line enclosing some reddish-orange spots and two black ones ; one of 
these last is placed at outer angle, and the other, which is edged with reddish orange, 
between second and third nervules ; the orange spots are edged externally with black, 
intersected by short projections from a white line parallel with outer margin ; fringes and 
tail as above. 
Expanse 37 mUlim. 
In one of the specimens the border of outer margin and apex is very 
faintly indicated. 
A.llied to Zephynis {Thechi) seraphim, Oberth., from which it differs prin 
cipally in the arrangement of markings on under surface of secondaries. 
Occurs in June at Ichang, Central China, from whence I received five 
female specimens. I have not seen the male of this species. 
