ZEPHYEUS. 389 
" On the under surface llie sexes only differ in the more pronounced coloration of the female. 
The wings are of a nnifoim pale orange-j-ellow, traversed by a band parallel with the outer 
margin ; this band is formed of silver crescents margined with black, placed between 
the nervules and followed externally by orange patches, which increase in size towards 
the inner margin of each wing ; the last of these spots on the primaries is double and 
replaced by black ; beyond the silver crescents there is a series of white spots ; there is 
a black spot at anal angle, and another in the first median interspace corresponding with 
that on upper surface. Fringes white, preceded by a black line. 
" One male and two females taken in August in the Isle of Askold." (OberiJiib; I. c.) 
M. Oberthiir's figure of this species, representing a female example, 
measures 46 millim. in expanse. 
Dr. Staudinger (Eom. sur Lep. vi. p. 146) says that he has received this 
species from Sutschan, Askold, and Vladivostock. 
Var. gabrielis, var. nov. (Plate XXVIII. fig. 7, 2 •) This form, which bears the same relation 
to the type that raphaelis does to var. flamen, has all the wings bright fulvous on upper 
surface ; the apex of primaries is broadly black, extending along the costal and outer 
margin ; the secondaries have a black patch near outer angle : there is no black spot in first 
median interspace. Under surface as in the type, but there is no black spot on the outer 
margin in first median interspace of primaries as represented in the figure of michadis. 
Expanse 52 millim. 
One female example of this form, for the loan of which I am indebted to 
Mr. Grose Smith, was taken in Western China, probably at Omei-shau. My 
collectors failed to meet with it. 
Zephyrus raphaelis. (Plate XXVIII. fig. 10, var.) 
Tfiecla raphaelis, Oberthiir, Etud. d'Eutom. v. p. 20, pi. v. fig. 1 (1880) ; Fixsen, Rom. 
sur Lep. iii. p. 278 (1887). 
Bipsas flamen, Leech^ Proe. Zool. Soc. 1887, p. 410, pi. xxxvi. fig. 2. 
" Ailes arrondies, iuferieures sans prolongement caudal, entierement rouge orange 
sauf le bord terminal des ailes superieures borde de noir, ainsi que la partie anterieure 
du bord terminal des ailes inferieures. Cette bordure noire est un pen variable et plus 
ou moins pronoucee suivant les individus. La partie la plus large de la partie noire se trouve 
a I'apex des ailes superieures, a Tangle interne des inferieures et par un petit renflement a 
I'extremite inferieure du bord terminal des premieres ailes. 
" Le dessous ne differe guere de celui de michaelis que par sa teinte orangee plus vive. 
" L'abdomen differe de celui de micJiaelis parce qu'il est fauve en dessus au lieu d'etre brun."' 
{Oherthur, I. c.) 
When M. Oberthiir wrote the above description he had a male specimen of 
the species from Amurland and a female example from Askold, but he does 
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