Magnificus sp.

(Fig. 7)

We also examined a specimen from the collection of WMW (Figs 7, 20, 21a, 22a, 23i) that we could not identify with respect to the currently recognized species as it was a female specimen and therefore directly comparable to only three species. The specimen is from Qinghai province, Anemaqen Shan, 3000 m, 50 KM West of Maqen City, 26 July-1August 1997 .

Description. Wingspan 72 mm, FW length 34 mm, width 13 mm; HW length 28 mm, width 12 mm. Head covered with greyish brown scales. Antenna filiform. FW ground colour greyish-brown with scattered dark brown patches with golden dusting and edged with white, white lines edged with brown; predominantly white oblique band between anterior discal cell and apex (outlined by orange line in Fig. 30a). HW basally covered with pale orange, extending distally along veins, central and outer region predominantly greyish brown. Legs: as for genus, leg length ratio pro:meso:meta 1: 1.1: 0.72. Abdomen greyish brown with orangish brown bands dorsally. Female genitalia (Fig. 10): dorsal plate comprising lateral ovoids fused across dorsal midline, posterior margin forming a wide V shape; lamella antevaginalis lobes subequal, dorsal surface flat, para-anal sclerites dorsoventrally narrow; ductus bursae forming a tube, about twice as long as the bursa copulatrix. Ductus bursae about twice the length and half the width of the ovoid corpus bursae (Fig. 10).

The FW similar to M. bouvieri where semi-ellipses (red arrows) is absent from the M 1 -M 2 cell, with basally concave edge to dark shading in outer M 2 -A cell (blue arrow in Fig. 30a) contrasting with concave edging in M. bouvieri . The oblique pale band cannot be definitively distinguished from that of M. jiuzhiensis as illustrated by Yan (2000). In M. zhiduoensis the basal band is localized to the medial discal cell (Fig. 30h) whereas in M. bouvieri the pale area extends over the anterior discal cell, and there is a more extensive pale region with central brown patches between M2 and posterior margin. All other Magnificus species have a continuous or broken postdiscal band between outer costa and posterior wing margin in the M2-A cell