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Show 216 MR. W. S. ATKINSON ON BUTTERFLIES FROM YUNAN. [Feb. 21, with a pale submarginal belt containing a series of incomplete ocelli. The first and third median nervures produced into short tails. Underside bright ferruginous. Fore icing crossed by three silvery-white bands; the first cutting the middle of the cell at right angles, the second and third corresponding to the pale bands on the upperside. Exterior to the third band a series of rudimentary ocelli reduced to four dark points. The exterior marginal lines bordered within by yellow. Hind wing crossed by two silvery-white bands ; the first cutting the lower part of the cell and corresponding to the first band of the fore wing, the second equidistant between the first and the exterior margin, and corresponding to the second band of the fore wing; at either end of the second band and within it are ocelli, the upper with one and the lower with two white pupils ringed with black. Exterior to the second band a series of four white-pupilled ocelli, their outer edge forming an interrupted yellowish-white band. Ihe exterior margin sharply defined by two fine black lines divided by a yellow line, and bordered within by bright yellow. Fringe yellow. ° J ° Antennae brown, with ferruginous tips. Expanse of wings 2\ inches. Hab. Yunan. Collected by Dr. J. Anderson, 1868. 3. PLESIONEURA LILIANA, sp. nov. (Plate XII. fig. 2.) Upperside dark fuliginous brown. Fore wing crossed from the middle of the costa to the posterior angle by a broad white semi-transparent band irregularly angled outwardly and narrowing from the midd e hindwards. A recurved series of five angular white spots between the band and the anterior angle. Fringi brown, with a grey spot below tbe anterior angle, and two others near the posterior angle. Hind wing without markings, the fringe barred with greyish white between the nervures. 8 ^ fn JS"^fi ^ :~F°ri WhX9 With band and sP°ts as above> b"t effused with grey scales towards the apex, and pale toward the posterior angle below the band. Hind wing suffused with greyish scales and crossed by irregular broken bands of grey, which JJ/i a mot tied appearance ; two white dots near the base. Palpi grey below, brown above. Expanse of wings 2\ inches. Hab. Yunan. Collected by Dr. J. Anderson, 1868. DESCRIPTION OF PLATE XII. Fig. I. Mrnona lena, p. 215. 2. Plesioneura liliana, p. 216. 3. Zophoessa andersoni, p. 215. |