NVMPIIALID.^i. SATVRIN.^]:. LETHE. 147 



Major Marshall's collection there is a single male taken by Captain C. T. Bingham in the 

 Donat Range, Upper Tenasserim, in January. (See remarks on Z. albcita, below.) 



130- LethO dolopes, Ilewitson. 

 Dchis dolof'cs, Hewitson, Ent, Month. Mag., vol. i.\, p. 85 (1872). 



Habitat : Sikkim. 



Expanse : 2-5 inches. 



Description : " Female : Uppersioe rufous-brown, /^n-c/w^ crossed from the costal 

 margin beyond its middle to a little above the anal angle by a band of paler colour, straight 

 until it reaches the submedian nervure, where it makes an angle inwards. Hindwing tailed : 

 crossed by a submarginal band of five blind black ocelli bordered with dull yellow, the middle 

 ocellus much smaller than the rest. Underside: Both ^viiigs rufous-brown to beyond the 

 middle, crossed by a continuous common band of dark brown, bordered outwardly by lilac- 

 white, the margin of the brown sharp and well defined : the wing beyond it rufous-white. 

 /'£?r(Ti'/«o- with four scircely visible ocelli, //in.iwing with seven ocelli, which are small and 

 black, each with a white centre and yellow iris bordered with brown, the first and fifth 

 largest." ( Heiuitson, 1. c. ) 



We have not seem a specimen of L. dolopes, but as the description of the underside 

 agrees well with that of Z. vindhya, we are inclined to believe, as noted above, that Z. dolopes 

 is only the female of that species. 



13'- Lethe alberta, Butler. 



L. alh-rta, Butler, Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist., fourth series, vol. viii, p. 283 (1871) ; idem, id., Lep. Ex., 

 p. 87, pi. xxxiii, fig. 5 (1872), male. 



Habitat : Benares, Tanasserim. 



Expanse : 2-92 inches. 



Description: "Male: Upperside olivaceous-fuscous. Foreiving \\\i\\. the apical 

 area abruptly paler. Hvid-wing with four large black blind ocelli, circled with ferru- 

 ginous ; the external margin blackish ; a very indistinct swarthy submarginal line. 

 Underside chestnut-swarthy; the apical area paler; a black median line, margined 

 outwardly with grey ; another discal defining the basal area, angulate in the hindwing. 

 Foreiving with the margin tinted with rosy ; a black submarginal line ; the discal area rosy 

 towards the inside, swarthy outwardly, with the apex bluish ; six discal ocelli black, circled 

 with yellow, and zoned with rosy. Hind-wing with the external margin greenish ; a black 

 submarginal line ; the discal area ochraceous-fuscous inwardly, blackish chestnut outwardly ; 

 seven ocelli in an irregular series ; the fifth the largest, black, circled with yellow, and zoned 

 with pale green. Body cinereous-fuscous. Allied to L. samio, dislafis, &^c." {Butler, 1. c. in 

 Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist.) 



Butler in his Lep. Ex. states that he has seen a female of this species in Mr. Moore's collec- 

 tion, but it is as yet undescribed. We have never seen Z. alberta : the habitat given 

 (Benares) is almost certainly incorrect, no Lethe, except possibly Z. eu7-opa, is likely to occur in 

 the plains of the North- West Provinces, at all events so far away from the hills. 



Among a collection of Butterflies taken to England by Captain Bingham from Tenasserim 

 and presented to the British Museum is z. Lethe regarding which Butler wiites "probably 

 conspecific with Z. alberta, though differing from the type of that species in having five 

 instead of four large ocelli on the upperside of the hindwing, and lilacine instead of green- 

 ish zones to the ocelli on the underside. A nearly allied, though apparently distinct, species 

 found in Darjiling has sericeous pink zones to the ocelli." {Butler, Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist., 

 fifth series, vol. x, p. 373, 1882). It is probable that Mr, Butler's remarks apply to the 

 Tenasserim Lethe we have identified above as Z. vindhya, and it seems further probable that 

 in describing Z. alberta Felder's description of Z. vindhya was overlooked by Mr. Butler, and 

 that the two are inseparable ; if the four ocelli of the hindwing on the upperside and the green 

 zones on the underside are not constant characters, there is nothing that we can trace to 

 separate the two as distinct species. 



