NYMPHALID/E. SATYRIN/E. ANADEBIS. 99 



Genus 6.-A1TADEBIS, Butler. (Plate XIV). 



Theofe, Moore. Horsfield and Moore, Cat. Lep E. I. C, vol. i, p. 234 (1857), (name preoccupied); 

 Auadebis, Butler, Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist , third series, vol. six, p 50 (1S67). 



"Body, with the ///tr^.v short, hairy; the head hairy; the antetincc very slender, with 

 scarcely perceptible club, about half the length of the forewing ; the palpi elongate, 

 erect; i\\t eyes projecting, naked. Forewing large, subtriangular ; casta strongly arched; 

 apical atigle rowwAed; outer margin nea.\\y s\.v^\ghi ; anal az/j^/t? rounded ; inner margiti nes.\\y 

 straight. Hindwing broadly ovate ; casta nearly straight ; afiical rt/?^/d? rounded ; outer Margin 

 slightly scalloped ; <7wr7/(r;/i,'A' slightly rounded. A't'/z'Wi^j- of wing scarcely swollen at base ; 

 neuration almost identical with that of Let/ie." {Butler, 1. c.) 



Moore, in his Catalogue of the Lepidoptera in the East India Museum, .placed the type 

 species as Alj'calesis ?, stating that it " may be separated under the generic name of T/ieape." 

 Butler, in redescribing the genus, notes as follows: "This genus must be placed next to 

 A^eorina, Westwood, from which it principally differs in the form of the antenna? and the 

 disco-cellular nervules [p. 51]. Although it has somewhat of the appearance of Afycalesis, it is 

 totally distinct from it, and is much more nearly allied to DeHs [ = Let/te] ; in fact the neuration 

 is almost identical with that of the latter genus ; but the great size of the typical species, 

 its clubless antennre, naked eyes, and erect palpi at once distinguish it. In some respects 

 this form seems to be nearly allied to Amechania, Hewitson \^ = Zelhcra, Felder] which should, 

 I think, be placed between it and the genus Otinoma, Doubleday." (Butler, I.e., p. 50). 

 There is apparently no structural feature by which it can be separated from Zethera, except the 

 form of the wings, and as the clothing of the palpi differs from that of iMycalesis, Neorina 

 and Lethe, being further removed from the typical genera of Satyrincc in this feature, its 

 proper place would be, as we have placed it, next to Zethera, and before Mycalesis, especially 

 as in style of markings, both it and the following genus Ccclites present more of the appear- 

 ance of Mycalesis than do either Neorina or Lethe. 



Only a single species is comprised in this genus, which inhabits the north-east corner 

 of India. 



82. AnadelsiS himacliala, Moore. (Plate XIV, Fig. 35 ? ). 



Mycatcsis (?) himacliala, Moore, Horsfield and Moore, Cat Lep E. I. C, vol. i, p. 234, n. 503 (1857) 5 

 Neorina sita,YAd.i.i, Wien. Ent. Monatsch., vol. iii, p. 403, n. 45 (1859); Etiiope hjinachata, Moore, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc Lend, 1865, p. 770; Anadcbis himachala, Butler, Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist, third series, vol. 

 xix, p. 51, pi. ii, fig. I (1867). 



Habitat : North-East India. 



Expanse : 275 to 3-6 inches. 



Description: "Upperside deep brown, broadly paler along outer margins. Forezoing 

 with six, and ///«(/W;/^ with five ocelli ; marginal line deep brown. Underside as above, but 

 the hindwing with six ocelli, the anterior ocellus large, and the posterior with two white dots." 

 (Moore, 1. c. ). The ocelli are large and contiguous, black with a prominent white pupil ringed with 

 yellowish, then with dark brown, then with yellowish again ; beyond them is a narrow edging 

 of the dark brown ground, and beyond that a dark brown submarginal line, bordered on either side 

 with yellowish, the extreme margin being again dark brown The posterior ocellus of the hindwing 

 is bipupilled both on the upper and undersides. On the underside the yellowish exterior 

 lines are replaced by whitish lines, and the anterior ocellus of the hindwing is placed back 

 out of line and is much larger than any of the others. The female is slightly larger than the 

 male, paler, especially towards the apex of the forewing, where there is, in some specimens, an 

 additional small ocellus between the last subcostal nervule and the termination of the costal 

 nervure ; and distinctly shows the anterior ocellus of the hindwing on the upperside. 



A. himachala is found in Sikkim, Assam, the Khasi Hills, Sylhet, and Cachar ; but we 

 have no record as yet of its capture in Burma. It is common in the autumn, and probably at 

 other seasons. Mr. Wood-Mason took it commonly in Cachar in May, Jidy, and August. 



The figure is taken from a female specimen in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, from 

 Sibsagar, and shows both the upper and undersides. 



