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126. LothO ka&sa» Moore. 

 Dcbis kansa, Moore, Horsfield and Moore, Cat. Lep. E. I. C, vol. i, p. 220, n. 456 (1857). 

 Habitat : Sikkim, Manipur, Sibsagar, Upper Tenasserim. 

 Expanse : 2 75 to 3-00 inches. 



Description : " Male : Upperside glossy olive-brown. Hindiuing with caudal 

 appendage somewhat long ; marginal row of blackish spots indistinct. UNDERSIDE drab, 

 with two transverse dark lines. Foreioing with four pale ocelli. Hindwing with six small 

 black ocelli, encircled by a yellow, brown, and then a lavender-coloured line ; the sixth minute 

 and geminated." ( ]\Ioorc, 1. c.) 



Moore's description of the female, which is appended below,* is manifestly erroneous, and 

 appears to have been taken from a specimen of L. vindhya, Felder. 



The MALE on the upperside of the yt^rj^rc////^^ frequently has three submarginal ochreous 

 spots, the first placed in the interspace above the termination of the costal nervure, the other 

 two in the interspaces below the second discoidal and third median nervules, one in each. 

 In the hind-wing the submarginal spots are very distinct, black, rounded, and enclosed each 

 in an ochreous ring ; the first and fifth are subequal in size ; the second the largest, but only a 

 little larger than the fourth ; the third the smallest of all. The usual marginal fine lines. On 

 the underside the ground-colour is usually glossed with violet ; theyt7;-e'w/;/^ in many speci- 

 mens has a short dark brown transverse bar across the middle of the cell ; and the disco-cellular 

 nervules in both wings defined with dark brown. The female differs from the male in the 

 wings being broader and the markings more distinct, especially the ochreous spots on the 

 forewing, and it has in addition two or three ochreous subcostal spots as the outer edge of the 

 transverse line which partially shows through from the underside ; the outer dark line on 

 the underside of the hindzving is more conspicuously dilated into a round spot in the middle 

 of the interspace between the third median and discoidal nervules than in the male. 



Messrs. Otto Moller and de Niceville have taken both sexes of this species in the Sikkim 

 Hills at low elevations in October. Mr. A. O. Hume took it in the eastern hills of Manipur in 

 May, and Captain C. T. Bingham in the Thoungyeen forests in March. 



127. LetllO SamiO, Doubleday, Hewitson. 

 Debts samio, Doubleday, Hewitson, Gen. D, L., p. 360, n. 8, pi. Ixi, fig. 3 (1851), male. 

 Habitat : East India. 

 Expanse : 27 inches. 



Description: Male: Upperside, both wings da.x\i rich brown. Fo reiving -n^inow, 

 produced ; outer margin slightly concave, without spots or markings. Hindiving with a broad 

 rufous band near the outer margin, bearing four round black spots, the third very small and 

 out of line, being placed close to the outer margin. A fifth spot between the first and second 

 median nervules is black, oval, and has an outer ferruginous ring. An indistinct submar- 

 ginal black line. (Described from the figure in the Gen. D. L. The underside is not shown, 

 but some hints regarding it can be gathered from the description of Z. distans, p. 148.) 



On the upperside the forewing agrees exactly with L. mekara, but differs from Z. sinorix 

 in being quite immaculate. The hindwing difiiers from both Z. mekara and Z. sinorix in 

 having the rufous band much brighter in colour, more sharply defined, and not extending to the 

 fifth spot, which is separated from it by the ground-colour. 



We have not seen a specimen of this species, nor, as far as we are aware, has any record 

 of the capture of a second specimen ever been published. See remarks on the following 

 species ; also Z. distans, p. 148. 



* Debis kansa. " Female: Upperside dark brown. Foreiving ■vi\\\i darker line across the disc. Hittdivirig 

 with five large black spots, narrowly encircled with red, from anterior angle. Underside brown, darkest within 

 the outer transverse line ; the inner line within, about the apex of forewing^ glossed with lavender-colour ; 

 ocelli pale. Hindwing with the anterior first and fifth ocellus large, that at the anal angle geminated, all en- 

 circled with a glossy lavender band." (Moore, Cat. Lep E. I. C, vol, i, p. 220, n. 456 (1857), 



