NYMPHALID.E. SATYRIN.^. LETHE. 153 



140. Letho neolg-liorrioiisis, Guerin. 



Satytiis (Cyllo) »ee/g-/iet-iensis and >tec^^^/iern'ens/s, Gu(-r\n, in r>e]e'i^ert's Voy. dans I'Inde, pt. 2, p. 74, 

 pi. xxi, figs. I, i<i(t843), >>"i^e ; /?^i^/j «c/V^/jfrr/V«jM, Horsfield and Moore, Cat. I.ep. E. I, C, vol. i, p. 217, 

 0.447(1857); D.neelgheriensis, Hewitson, Ex. Butt., vol. iii, DeHs pi. ii, fig. 6 (1863), female; Lethe 

 neelghernensis, Butler, Cat. Lep. B. M. Satyrida, p. 115, n. 8 (1868) ; id., Moore, Lep. Cey., p. 16, pi. vii, 

 figs. I niaU, I afonale (1880). 



Habitat : South India, Ceylon. 



Expanse ; 2"i to 2-3 inches. 



Description : Male : •' Upperside hlacki.sh smoky-brown. Forrwinq with a yellowish 

 spot beyond the middle at the costal margin, divided into three by the nervules ; two square 

 spots near the apex ; and another spot near the external margin at one-third the length from 

 the hinder angle. Himiwhig unspotted, but showing through by transparency some traces of 

 the ocelli of the underside [especially the second ocellus from the apex, at the site of which 

 there is, in some specimens, a round indistinct dark spot] ; the marginal lines as on underside, 

 but less distinctly marked. Underside with a very irregular sinuous and dented greyish white 

 band across both wings, larger towards the costa of the forewing, not corresponding exactly on 

 the liindwing. [This band is bordered with brown on both sides ; on W\t fore-cving beyond it is a 

 very zigzag greyish white line across the cell ; an irregular whitish macular line from the costa 

 beyond the cell to the hinder angle, and a row of five round ocelli concave to the outer margin 

 on a whitish ground ; the uppermost obsolete at the apex ; the margin is narrowly dark brown 

 followed by a yellowish line, then a dark brown line, then a grey line bordered on the outside 

 with dusky.] Hindwing with another greyish band bordered with brown a little beyond the mid- 

 dle, and strongly angulated towards the outer margin a little before the middle of its leno-th • be- 

 tween this last band and the margin are situated six black ocelli encircled with first yellow, then 

 brown, and then ashy grey ; the first, which touches the costa, is the largest, and has in the 

 middle a large white pupil ; the three following are oval and elongated, the black portion with 

 a great number of little white dots scattered over it ; the fourth [? fifth] is quite round, much retired 

 towards the margin, and well defined, having in the middle only three or four white dots [it is 

 often entirely blind], the ocellus at the anal angle is in a line with the third, fourth and fifth 

 [? second, third and fourth] and geminate with two black ovals surrounded with and separated by 

 yellow, and sprinkled with numerous white dots. Both wings have the cilia whitish ; and 

 the hinchving \id.s the marginal lines as in the forewing, but more sinuous and irregular." 



The above is taken from Guerin's original description, the parts in brackets being added 

 to complete it where deficient. 



•' Female : Upperside, light brown. Forewing with the outer half dark brown, crossed 

 obliquely beyond the middle of the wing by three white spots, and near the apex by two of the 

 same colour. Hindwing with a band of four spots beyond the middle, the outer margin and 

 two submarginal lines black. [The narrow line between the margin and first submarginal black 

 line is yellowish.] Underside grey and rufous-brown. Foreiving with the white spots as 

 above, and between them a band of three ocelli. [The three white spots across the middle tend 

 to become confluent, forming an irregular maculated band across the wing.] Hind-wiw^ with 

 two perfect ocelli only— one, the largest, at the costal margin, the other towards the anal angle ; 

 between these ocelli there is a trifid triangular space minutely dotted with black and white • 

 and at the anal angle an eye-like rufous spot enclosing two oval spots of black, dotted with 

 white." {Heiijiison, 1. c. ) 



Z. nedghen-iensis very closely resembles Z. dyrta on the underside, so much so that 

 with the exception of the band of the forewing being maculated and irregular in the former 

 and prominent and continuous in the latter, the differences are very difficult to describe. On 

 the upperside, however, the presence in Z. neelgherriensis of the whitish spot on the forewino- 

 of the male near the hinder angle, and in the female the white band being replaced by three 

 separate square white spots, render it notably distinct from Z. dyrta. 



In Horsfield and Moore's Cat. Lep. E. I. C. (1857) it is recorded from Bhutan, N. India 

 and Darjiliiig ; but this probably requires confirmation ; it was originally described both by 



