NYMPHALID.E. SATVRIN/E. CCELITES. loi 



all oilier Indian Saiyriitcv at a glance ; the only approach to this colouration being in the male 

 of Lethe scanda. Some of the species of Lethe, including Z. scaiida, have in the males a tuft 

 of hairs on the upperside of the hindwing below the median nervure at the origin of the second 

 median nervule; a similar lufi is also present in the male of Ca-///a </)//«/«//!/«, but it is placed 

 on the submedian nervure ; thus showing a further analogy between these genera. 



83. CoSliteS notlliS, Doubleday and Ilewitson. 

 C. nothis, Doubleday and Hewitsoii, Gen. D. L., p. 368, pi. livi, fig 2 (1851). 

 Habitat : East India. 

 Expanse : 3 inches. 



Description : Upperside : Both luiugs rich brown, the costa of fore^vlng and the outer 

 margins of Iwth wings paler ; the basal two-thirds brilliantly shot with purple. Foregoing with 

 two marginal dark brown lines ; hindwing with two similar lines, but wider apart, and enclos- 

 ing a band of a lighter colour than the ground. (Described from the figure in the Gen. D. L.) 

 " On the UNDERSIDE the basal half of the wings is dark brown, the tpical [outer] half 

 paler, with a pinkish gloss, with several slender brown streaks, parallel with the apical [outer] 

 margin. The hinchoiiig is much darker brown than the forewing, and is marked with five 

 ocelli varying in size, the second and the outer one being the largest ; they are black, with a 

 minute white pupil, and a fulvous iris surrounded by a narrow brown circle." (IVestzvood , 1. c.) 



Westwood founded the genus Ccelites npon " a single male, not in the best condition." 

 In his figure, however, and also in the description no mention is made of the very conspicuous 

 patch of black hairs and scales on the abdominal margin of the upperside of the hindwing 

 which is present in the male specimen of C. epiminthia we possess, and which is probably a male 

 sexual character of insects of this genus ; if this be the case the specimen of C. nothis, figured 

 and described by him, is a female and not a male as stated. We have never seen a specimen of 

 this rare Butterfly ; and it is possible that it may not be Indian after all. " East India," the 

 locality given in the original description, embraces a very large area, and might possibly 

 have included Malayana and the Malay archipelago. 



84. Ccelites epimiathia, Westwood. (Plate XIII, Fig. 31 (?). 



C. epiminthia, Westwood, Gen. D. L., p. 36S, n. 2 (1851). 

 Habitat : Moulmein, Meplay Valley, Upper Tenasserim ; Sumatra ; Borneo. 

 Expanse : 3 inches. 



Description: "Coloured similarly to the ^x&c&^\Xig\C.nothis'\, foreiving more falcate ; 

 hindwing angulated in the middle of the outer margin." (IFestiaood, 1. c. ) 



The male and female specimens of C. epiminthia which we have seen differ from the 

 description and figure of C. nothis in the foiewing being less broad, the apex more produced 

 and falcate, and the outer margin more concave ; the hindwing is also produced into a very 

 short tail at the third median nervule. There is only one marginal line on the upperside 

 of both wings (in C. nothis there are two), which is nearer the margin than in the latter 

 species, and on the hindwing it is not bordered on both sides with dull ferruginous. The 

 hindiving also bears on the submedian nervure a conspicuous elongate patch of deep black 

 hairs and scales. Underside dark brown ; both wings crossed by a pale violet band, 

 commencing near the costa on the forewing, and crossing the wing beyond the cell ; on the 

 hindwing it passes through the outer extremity of the cell, and does not reach the abdominal 

 margin. The outer margin of both wings is defined by a dark fine line, within which are 

 two similar equidistant lines. On the forrwing within the marginal lines there is a broad 

 band of pale violet. Hindwing with five equal-sized submarginal ocelli placed on a pale 

 violet band. The ocelli are black, with white oblique linear pupils surrounded with a ferruginous, 

 and then a brown ring. Female : Upperside similar to the male, but having a conspicuous 

 subapical lavender band on the forrwing curving from the costa to the outer margin, along 

 which it is continued till it gradually disappears on the outer margin of the hindwing. 



