142 NVMrilALID.E. SATYRIN/E. LETIIE. 



white apical spot and two indistinct streaks below it ; an indistinct series of blackish 

 submar<Tinal spots. /T/Ww/w^ with a siibmarglnal series of five black spots, the middle spot 

 very small ; the upper spots with broad irregular whitish-brown borders, the two lower with 

 pale brown rings and a white central dot. Underside brown at base ; outer borders paler. 

 Foiru'iii'^ with oblique band as above, and five submarginal spots. Hmditiiug as in male ; 

 subbasal transverse line purple-bordered, and the irregular medial line with whitish-brown 

 outer border. -The female of this species is much like that of Z. dynsale, but it differs in 

 havinCT a narrower oblique discal band, and more defined subapical white and black spots on 

 the forewing, and the hindwing has paler interspaces between the outer series of spots. The 

 un.lerside also differs in the forewing having five submarginal ringlet spots instead of four, 

 and the hindwing has all the spots smaller, the costal spot and the second anal being one- 

 third less in size." {Moore, I.e. in Lep. Cey.) 



" Rare and very local ; ol)served only in two places in forest land near Newera Eliya. 

 Habits similar to those of L. dtypetis." {Hutchison). We have never seen this Butterfly. 



124. Lethe dynsate, iiewitson. 



Debis dynsaie. He^'itsoWj'Es.. B\i\.t., vo\. in, Debt's -pX.W, figs, g, 10 (18631,7^;;/^/^; Lethe dynsate, Butler, 

 Cat. Lep. B. M., Satyrida, p. 115, n 10 (t868) ; Hanipha. dynsate, Moore, Lep. Cey., p. 20, pi. ix, figs, i, \a 

 {i'&Zq), female. 



Habitat : Ceylon. 



Expanse : 2 55 inches. 



Description : " Female: Upperside rufous-brown. /J;;-^^;/^ dark brown, except near 

 the base, crossed at the middle by a broad equal band of white, and a solitary white spot ; two 

 indistinct white spots near the apex [the lower one with a rounded dark spot contiguous to it in- 

 ternally]. Hind'cving with a large bilobed spot near the apex, followed by three black blind ocelli 

 (one [the first] minute). [The apical spot is on a yellowish ground ; internal to it is a yellowish 

 spot; and an indistinct yellowish band crosses the wing from just beyond the extremity of the 

 cell, 'where the third median nervule is given off, to the first median nervule. 'YVq forezving 

 has a submarginal black line, and the hindwing \.\vo similar lines]. UNDERSIDE rufous and 

 grey-brown. Foreiuing with the white band continuous to the anal angle, with, between 

 it and the apex, a band of three blind ocelli [placed on a lilac ground reaching to the 

 apex where it expands and coalesces with a lilac submarginal line, which latter is 

 bordered on both sides with a black line. A violet band from the subcostal nervure 

 crosses the middle of the cell, and is continued across the wing till it meets the band on the 

 hindwing. It is bordered on both sides with a dark brown line]. Hindwing with a band 

 of six perfect ocelli, the first and fifth large, the other four small and somewhat misshapen, each 

 with two or three white dots." {Htivttson, 1. c. ) A violet line edged internally only with dark 

 brown crosses the wing before the middle in continuation of that on the forewing ; beyond the 

 middle of the wing the brown ground-colour deepens and terminates abruptly in an irregular 

 line greatly extended above the third median nervule, succeeded by a grey band above the dis- 

 coidal nervule, and a yellow band below from the third median nervule ; the usual yellow and 

 violet submarginal lines, separated by and edged with dark brown ; the violet line wide at apex 

 where it extends beyond the brown line up to the ocelli ; the ocelli ringed with yellow, then 

 brown, and then incompletely with grey. Male unknown. 



We have never seen a specimen of this insect ; the additions to the description have been 

 made from Hewitson's fi<:ures of the species. 



The second group contains a very large number of species, and presents considerable varia- 

 tions in the outline of the wings, but the transition from the elongate forewing and highly cau- 

 date hindwing of Z. sinorix to the short broad forewing and rounded, scarcely caudate, hindwing 

 of Z. iidonis, is so gradual that the separation into subgroups on this point only would be impos- 

 sible. Tlie only structural variation in this group of any note is in the position of the apex of 

 the cell in the hindwing. The differentiation of the sexes varies widely. 



