NYMPHALID^. SATYRIN/E. LETITE. 141 



of the forewing. A common sul^basnl brown line commencing lieforc llie apex of llie cell in the 

 forewing, and ending near the middle of the abdominal margin of thehindwing ; the area beyond 

 it paler ; a discal very irregular similar line across both wings. Fomving with a submarginal 

 series of four inconspicuous rudimentary ocelli placed on a violet ground, which is continued 

 to the apex ; a series of three minute dots with paler borders placed transversly in the middle 

 of the cell. Hitid-ivhig with a submarginal series of seven indistinct yellow ocelli, the two anal 

 ones run together, with black centres broken up into numerous minute dots ; marginal lines to 

 both 7vi)tgs as on upperside. Female differs on the upperside in having all the ground-colour 

 except the apex and outer margin of the forewing, bright feiruginous. Forcivbig, with the sub- 

 apical spots pure white, and with a bent macular band of pure white spots across the disc. The 

 anterior spot elongate and somewhat quadrate, reaching from the costa to the lower discoidal 

 nervule ; a large rounded spot in the second median interspace ; a smaller one in the interspace 

 below, and the last, double the size of the one above it, in the space below the first median 

 nervule. Hindiving with a fifth diffused black spot in the space above the subcostal nervure. 

 Underside paler than in the male, with a white band across the disc of the foreiving, out- 

 wardly sharply angled, and inwardly clearly defined with a dark brown line. 



Godart's description of .S^i/yr/w^ir/^waj* is appended for reference. It is not known why 

 Messrs. Moore and Butler have rejected the older Fabrician name for this species. 



Captain C. T. Bingham took this species in the Donat Range and Meplay in January, at 

 Meplay in January and February, in the Thoungyeen Forests in March and May, and at 

 Houndraw in November ; and Limborg took it at Ahsown probably in the cold weather. 



The next two species are closely allied, and have the same general aspect as Z. daretis 

 and L. drypetis of the second group ; and having, in the female only, a conspicuous white bar 

 on the forewing. Moore, in his " Lepidoptera of Ceylon," page 18, has placed them in a distinct 

 genus from Lethe, which he characterises as follows : — Genus Hanipha. " Wings similar in form 

 and venation to Lethe, but iht forewing comparatively shorter and of less breadth, and the hind' 

 lohig longer. Male with a conspicuous lengthened tuft of short hairs transversely covering a 

 sericeous patch of compact raised scales between the first median nervule and submedian ner- 

 vure ; first median nervule much curved. Type, H. sihala," (Moore, 1, c.) 



123. Lethe sihala, Moore. 



L. sihala, Moore, Proc. Zool. See. Loud., 1872, p. 555 ; Hanipha sihala, id. Lep. Cey., p. 19, pi. viii, figs. 

 2, 2b, tjiale ; za, female (i38o). 



Habitat : Ceylon. 



Expanse : (?, 2'25 ; ?, 2^50 inches. 



Description : "Male : Upperside dark olive-brown. Forezmng -wiih. two very indistinct or 

 obsolete dusky-white apical spots, and a longitudinal tuft of long blackish-brown hairs between 

 first median nervule and submedian nervure. Hindiving with a submarginal series of indistinct 

 black spots. Underside, basal area dark brown, apical area pale brown, being divided on the 

 _/^r(?7t//'«o- by an oblique discal chalybeate-purple streak, and on the /^///(fe'w^ by a discal me- 

 dially-angled dark brown line ; a submarginal series of four very indistinct ocelli on foretuing form- 

 ed by a central black dot, and two chalybeate rings ; a submarginal series of six larger ocelli 

 on hindzoing, formed by a black spot with a single white central dot and fulvous outer ring, 

 each being encircled by a purple border ; both toings with a dark brown purple-bordered 

 subbasal transverse line. Female : Upperside brown, basal area paler. Foreiving vf'xih 

 a broad oblique discal white band and a terminal spot near posterior angle ; a small 



* Satyrus eaumas, Godart. Description : " Malb ; Upperside dark brown, with a little tuft of black hairs 

 on the disc of hindiving ; and an ashy spot, elliptic. longitudinal, surrounded with black, towards the middle of 

 the inner margin of the fore'Lving. Ffmai.r : Uppbrsidb dark tawny, terminated on the foreiuing by a blackish 

 space, triangular and very large, on which there is a transverse white macular band bent hindwards, and followed 

 by a white dot which faces the apex. Hindiving has parallel to the outer margin a row of four large black eye- 

 like spots. These spots are also present in the male, but of a darker colour. Both sbxks : UNnBRSiDE red- 

 dish-grey, with three transverse ferruginous lines, of which the second and third are more undulate than the 

 anterior one, and enclosing on the hindiving •rX-x. yellowish contiguous ocelli, having the iris of a pearly-grey, the 

 pupil black and sprinkled with dots, which appear as if gilded- On the /oreiving these same lines enclose some 

 indistinct ocellated dots. Body brown ; antennce reddish." \fiodart, Euc. Me'th , vol. i.\, p 479, n. 7 (1819). 



