128 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 
Dry-srason Broop (Plate 125, figs. 1,¢,d,e, ¢ 2). 
Imaco.—Male. Upperside much deeper dusky-brown than in the wet-season 
form, the colour having a purpurescent tint, and the outer borders are thickly 
speckled with purpurescent-cinereous scales. Forewing with a more acute and 
prolonged angle below the apex than in male of the wet-season form; the large 
apical patch being of a rich ochreous and darkest inwardly, the patch extending 
from within the end of the cell to the cinereous marginal border; the ocelloid spots 
being obscurely defined. Hindwing unmarked; the tail much prolonged. Under- 
side very densely purpurescent-brown or purpurescent olive-brown, the cinerescent 
strige very irregular and more or less indistinctly disposed and mottled, the basal 
area darkest, the outer discal washed with cinereous; the ocelloid spots smaller, 
very ill-defined. 
Female. Upperside much paler than in the male, with less distinct cinereous 
margins. Forewing even more acutely angled below the apex than in male; the 
rich ochreous apical patch occupying about half the wing, extending more or less 
well into the cell and to the posterior angle, the enclosed ocelloid spots being 
present as in the female of the wet-season form, or the two ordinary-disposed 
subapical black spots are developed, but both well-separated, more or less elongated, 
and with a distinet white pupil. Hindwing with one, or two, posterior submarginal 
white dots. Underside. Both wings dusky ochreous, with uniformly-disposed 
dark brown strige, which are sometimes more or less irregularly blotched ; the 
submarginal ocelloid spots also blotched. 
Expanse, 3 3 to 3,%, ? 3; to 3,% inches. 
Hasirat. 
DisrrisuTion.—The type specimens of this beautiful species were ‘‘taken by 
Mr. J. A. Betham at Pachmari, a Sanatarium in the Satpura Hills, Central Provinces, 
at an elevation of 3500 feet, the wet-season form having been captured in August, 
and the dry-season form in October.” Mr. Betham (Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. 
Soc. 1890, p. 160) states that “it has the same habits as M. Leda, and has only 
been found about Pachmari, where it is fairly abundant.” 

Satpura Hills, Central Provinces. 
The illustrations of this species on our Plate 125 represent the male and 
female of both the wet and dry-season forms, from the type specimens kindly lent 
for this purpose by Mr. L. de Nicéville. 
MELANITIS BELA. 
Wet-season Broop (Plate 126, figs. 1, la, b, ¢ 2). 
Cyllo Aswa, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1865, p. 769, ¢. 
Melanitis Aswa, Butler, Catal. Satyr. Brit. Mus. p. 5 (1868). Marshall and de Nicéville, Butt. of 
India, ete. i. p. 253 (1883). 
Cyllo tristis, Felder, Reise Novara, Lep. p. 463 (1867), 3. 
