146 NYMPHALID-E. SATYRIN^E. LETHE, 



128. Lethe purana, Feider. 



Debts purana, Feider, Wien. Ent. Monatsch., vol. iii, p. 401, n. 43 (1859) ; Lethe purar.a, Butler, Cat. Lep, 

 B. M., Saiyrida; p. 118, n. 28 (1868). 



Habitat : Not given. 



Expanse : Not given. 



Description : " Uppersidk fulvous-brown. Fomving subfalcate, with the apex sub- 

 truncate, with an external nearlj' straight macular fascia, diffused outwardly, and an adjacent 

 obsolete spot, white. Hindwiug extended, subcaudate externally ; the cilia white at the tips, 

 with an angulate discal striga, and an adjacent obsolete spot, swarthy ; an external band pale 

 fulvescent, with four large spots uniform, each spot (the third excepted) large, rounded, marked 

 with swarthy, with a round black ocellus circled with yellow, including a white spot near the 

 anal angle ; a marginal fulvescent line. Unherside pale brown, shining with lilac. Forewing 

 paler outwardly, with a subbasal striga, terminated externally with lilac powdering, and 

 another oblique discal, broadly bordered with white externally, ferruginous swarthy ; four 

 obsolete exterior ocelli whitish-brown, with a swarthy pupil marked with white, margined 

 with brown, and placed on a white ground tinted with lilac ; with two marginal swarthy lines. 

 Hind-wing with a straight submedian striga, m.argined externally with lilac ; a discal litura 

 and another striga, angulate, corresponding to the upperside, swarthy ; six exterior black ocelli 

 arranged in a bent line, broadly circled with yellow, and margined with swarthy, including a 

 white drop (geminate in the anal one), each placed upon a whitish lilac ground ; an anal spot 

 of the same colour, and two swarthy marginal lines." 



"ZJ. f HI ana is allied to D. samio, Doubleday, but is sufficiently distinguished from it by 

 the white band of the forewing, the different position and formation of the ocelli, the more 

 angular hindwing and the bands being entirely differently formed." (Feider, 1. c.) " Is not 

 this the female of L. samio f {Butler, 1 c.) The description is apparently that of a female, 

 and it is not improbable that Butler's suggestion is a correct one. We have never seen a 

 specimen of this species, nor has any other record of its capture been published to our 

 knowledge. 



129. Lethe vindliya, Feider. 



Debts vindhya, Feider, Wien. Ent. Monatsch., vol. iii, p. 402, n. 44 (1859). 



Habitat : Assam ; Donat Range, Upper Tenasserim. 



Expanse -. ^ , 3'6 to 3"8 inches. 



Description: ''Male: Upperside ferruginous-swarthy, with an exterior obsolete 

 swarthy line. Forewing subfalcate, the outer border paler. Hindwing subcaudate, with five 

 large exterior obsolete blackish-swarthy spots, the last marked with a white dot. Underside 

 brown, with the basal half (especially about the disc) obscure swarthy, terminated outwardly 

 by a swarthy line (in the forewing oblique, continuous ; in the hindwing curved, subangulate 

 in the middle) ; with a submedian striga on both wings, swarthy, margined outwardly with 

 lilac, and two marginal swarthy lines. Foreiving outwardly and at the apex powdered with 

 lilac ; a cellular patch swarthy, circled with white ; five exterior ocelli arranged in a line, 

 yellow, circled with swarthy and white, including a black pupil marked with white. Hindzuing 

 with six unequal ocelli arranged in a bent line, black, narrowly bordered with yellow and 

 fuscous, marked with a while drop, each on a lilac ground, the first and fourth [? fifth] much 

 larger, the sixth geminate. Thorax and abdomen black above, beneath pale fawn-colour." 



" This species reminds one on the upperside of Debts [= Lethe'] samio, Doubleday, and 

 differs from L. purana in the absence of the white band on the forewing, the different curve 

 of the outer line of the hindwing, and the less projecting angles of the same." (Feider, 1. c.) 



There can be but little doubt that L. dolopes which follows is the female of this species, but 

 in the absence of sufficient evidence to decide the point, we retain them for the present as distinct. 



This is a very distinct and beautiful species. In the Indian Museum, Calcutta, there 

 are two male specimens, one from Sibsagar, Assam, the other with no precise locality ; and in 



