SATYRIN 4, 131 
December, and the dry-season form at Pauk and Tilin in November, December, and 
April. Capt. Watson also took the wet-season form in Rangoon in June, July, 
August, and September, and the dry-season form at Beeling in Upper Tenasserim, 
in February, March, and April. Signor Leonardo Fea obtained the wet-season 
form at Palone in Pegu, in August, and the dry-season form at Moolayet in March, 
and also at Bhamo in October. Capt. Bingham took the dry-season form at 
Thoungyeen in Tenasserim in January and February, and at Houndrau in November. 
Capt. Watson also obtained the dry-season form at Poungdau near Thyetmyo in 
November, and in the Karen Hills in December. Mr. O. Limborg (P. Z. 8. 1878, 
824.) obtained the dry-season form in Upper Tenasserim at Ahsown, Meetan, 3000 
feet in April, Naththoung to Paboga, Moolai, 3000 to 6000 feet, and Moolat, 4500.” 
Mr. H. J. Elwes (J. A. 8. Bengal, 1887, 417) records the dry-season form from 
Tavoy. 
This species is also found in Western China; the wet-season form (Aswa) is 
described by Mr. J. H. Leech in “ Lep. China, ete.’ p. 108, and the dry-season 
form (Bela) described and figured as M. Ismene, p. 106, pl. 13, figs. 2, 5. 
MELANITIS VARAHA. 
Wert-season Broop (Plate 127, figs. 1, la, b,c, d, g 2). 
Melanitis Ampa, Swinhoe, Annals of Nat. Hist. 1890, p. 353, 2. 
Imaco.—Male. Upperside uniformly dark sepia-brown, the exterior borders 
paler. Forewing with the exterior margin nearly straight. Both wings generally 
unspotted, but sometimes the forewing shows two subapical white dots and the 
hindwing two posterior submarginal dots. Underside purpurescent-brown ; densely 
covered with uniformly-disposed narrow purpurescent-grey strige. Both wings 
crossed by a very obscurely-defined darker narrow discal fascia, the ordinary inner 
fascia on the forewing not being defined; submarginal ocelli small, fully developed, 
white pupilled, the pupil on those of the hindwing large, and in some few examples 
the ocelli on both wings are of nearly uniform large size and the pupil occupying 
the whole of the centre. 
Female. Upperside much paler and of a cinerescent olive-brown tint. ore- 
wing angled below the apex; with two very obscure blackish-brown subapical 
superposed spots, both with an indistinct whitish pupil, the adjacent costal patch 
_also obscurely defined. Hindwing sometimes with one, or two, posterior submarginal 
prominent whitish spots. Underside reddish-brown or brownish-ochreous; densely 
covered with uniformly-disposed pale ochreous-grey strige. Both wings with the 
discal fascia well defined, narrow, darker and brighter reddish-brown or brownish- 
ochreous, the marginal border being also of the same darker colour; the submarginal 
s 2 
