I40 NYMPHALID.E. SATYRTN/E. LETHE. 



two transverse ferruginous-brown lines, the inner one bifid across discoidal cell, the outer 

 straight, and bordered by the white spots ; a submarginal row of four pale ocelli, also an ante- 

 rior terminal yellow spot. Hindiving with two transverse ferruginous-brown lines, and a sub- 

 marginal row of six ocelli ; a narrow dark marginal line to both wings." (Moore, 1. c.) 

 " Except in the form of the hindvving, L. anysis seems identical with Z, bhairava. May it not 

 be the male of that insect?" [Butler, Cat. Lep. B, M., SatyriJce, p. 117, n. 22 (1868). 

 Both sexes of this species appear to be rare. 



The next species has somewhat the aspect of Z. hyrania, especially on the underside, but 

 is larger, and the male has a tuft of hair on the upperside of the hindvving. 



121. Letho latiaris, Hewitson, 



Delis latiaris, Hewitson, Ex. Butt., vol. iii, Debts -^X. i, fig 4 {1S62), /emale ; Lethe latiaris, Butler, Cat. 

 Lep. B.M., Satyridie, p. 117, n. 23 (1868). 



Habitat : Sylhet, Assam, Khasi Hills, Upper Tenasserim. 



Expanse : 2 'o to 27 inches. 



Description: "Female: Upperside yellow-brown. Fore^ving with an indistinct 

 transverse band at the middle, and a small rufous spot near the apex. Hindwing with three 

 indistinct blind ocelli [in one specimen all the ocelli of the underside show through indis- 

 tinctly by transparency on the upperside] ; the outer margin and a line near it dark brown, the 

 space between the lines yellow. Cilia grey. Underside light grey or yellow-brown. 

 Both wings with the outer margin and a line near it dark brown, with between them a line of 

 yellow, forrcoing crossed before the middle by two short rufous bands ; at the middle by 

 a band of white (its inner border rufous), forming a triangle with a broad grey band, 

 which runs parallel to the outer margin, and incloses four small indistinct ocelli. Hindxowg 

 crossed before the middle by a straight rufous band ; at the middle by a curved band of the 

 same colour, followed by seven ocelli ; the first apart from the rest, the sixth and seventh 

 (at the anal angle) in one ; all black with white pupils, the iris yellow, margined with dark 

 brown, and again with lilac-white." (He%vitson,\. c.) "Male, differs in several particulars 

 from the female. Hindimng less angulated, with a discal hairy streak above, and the central 

 bands on the underside are placed slightly nearer together." (Butler, 1. c.) ThQforewing on 

 the upperside is unmarked. 



Somewhat rare ; it has been taken at Shillong in May. 



The next species has the same general aspect as Z. mekara, and the female has a bent 

 macular band of pure white spots, as in the females of Z. mekara and its allies. 



122. Lethe minerva, Fabricius. 



Papilio mincrzia, Fabricius, Syst. Ent., p. 493, n. 216 (1775) ; Pa/>ilioarcadia, Cramer, Pap. Ex., vol. ii, pi. 

 cxvi, figs. E, F (1777), female; Satyrus caumas, Godart, Enc Meth., vol. ix., p. 479, n. 7 (1819) ; Lethe 

 arcadia, Butler, Cat. Lep. B. M., Haiyridce, p. 118, n. 24 (1S68) ; id., Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend., 1878, 

 p. 824. 



Habitat : Upper Tenasserim, Sumatra, Java. 



Expanse: 25 inches. 



Description : Male : Upperside dark brown, with the extreme outer margins of both 

 wittgs and the cilia pale brown. Forewing with the basal two-thirds thickly clothed with paler 

 brown hairs than the ground-colour, especially on either side of the middle third of the sub- 

 median nervure ; the ground-colour on either side of this nervure, but especially behind it 

 being black. Two or three subapical pale spots. Hiudwiug with the basal area and the 

 costal margin dark brown ; the cell and abdominal margin thickly clothed with long paler hairs. 

 Outer margin and disc bright ferruginous. Three oval small black spots in the median and 

 discoidal interspaces, a larger and outwardly diffused spot in the upper discoidal interspace. A 

 marginal orange line bounded on either side by very fine dark lines. A conspicuous oval 

 patch of black scales placed at the base of the first median interspace, with a tuft of long 

 hairs lying over it. Underside ochrcous, suffused darker on the disc and at the outer angle 



