154 NYMPIIALID.E. SATYRIN.E. LETHE. 



Guerin and Hewitson from the Nilgiii Hills, and is probably to be found in suitable localities 

 throughout the south of the peninsula. Mr. Fergusson has taken it in the Ashamboo Hills in 

 Travancore in May, and again in July at Trevandrum. Mr. E. H. Aitken took it at Khandalla 

 in .April. Lieutenant-Colonel Swinhoe has taken it at Mhow in the autumn, and also commonly 

 at Abu ; but we have never seen a specimen from further north than this latter place. It also occurs 

 in Ceylon, where it is " found in the neighbourhood of coffee-plantations south of Newera 

 El iy.a, at about 3,000 feet elevation. It appear-s plentifully, except from January to March." 

 { Jliitchison). " Taken also at Kandy and Dickoya by Captain Wade." {Moo)e,\. c. in Lep. Cey.) 



141- Lethe satyavati, tie N. 



L. satyavati, de Niceville, Journ. A.S.B., vol. xli.\, pt. 2, p 246 (1880). 



Habitat : Sibsagar, Assam. 



Expanse : 27 inches. 



Description : Female : Upperside dull brown, paler towards the margins. Forewing 

 with an indistinct submarginal darker line. Himhving with a submarginal series of four 

 rounded spots darker than the ground-colour, placed one in each interspace above the first 

 median nervule ; two marginal darker lines defined inwardly by paler lines than the ground- 

 colour. Underside pale brown, with no ochreous tint, and washed with lilac, especially on 

 the outer half. Both wings crossed by a prominent brown nearly straight subbasal line out- 

 wardly margined with lilac. FotTcuing with an irregular discal transverse brown line ; a bar in 

 the cell within the subbasal line ; five indistinct submarginal ocelli circled with lilac and 

 brown on a lilac ground ; and a yellowish marginal line edged on both sides with dusky, with- 

 in which is a brown waved band on the lilac ground between the ocelli and the margin. 

 llindwinf' with a discal very much angled dark brown line, within which is a very distinct lilac 

 lltura above the third median nervule and just beyond the apex of the cell ; the submarginal 

 ocelli large, the upper one distinctly pupilled with white, and all of them profusely speckled 

 with white ; the usual marginal markings. Similar in outline to L. laiiaris, ? , and differing 

 from it on the upperside in markings only in the absence of the transverse oblique ochreous 

 line, and the subcostal spot near the apex of the forewing. 



The male is unknown. The type specimen, the only one seen, is in the Indian Museum, 



Calcutta. 



142. Lethe liYrania, Koiiar. 



Satyriis hyrania, Kollar !n Hvigel's Kaschmir, vol. iv, pt. 2, p. 449, n. 7, pi. xvii, figs, i, 2 (1844), male; 

 Satyrtts isana, idem, id , p. 44S, n. 6, pi. xvi, figs. 3, ^female. 



Habitat : N.-W. Himalayas. 

 Expanse : 2*2 inches. 



Description : " Male : Upperside, swarthy. Hindwiug obtusely dentate, with four 

 obsolete black ocellate spots. Underside : Poraving with three obsolete ocelli at the 

 apex, and a pale oblique median streak; Hindwing with six black white-pupilled ocelli, 

 the last geminate, and two narrow obscure stripes. Female : Wings swarthy. I-orewiug 

 with an oblique band on both surfaces, and a spot near the apex, white. Ilindiviiig 

 obtusely dentate, with four obsolete black ocelli on the upperside. Underside with three 

 ocelli at the apex in they^/'^^i'/'/^; s\x onVn^ hittdwnig, white-pupilled, first, fourth, and fifth 

 larger, the sixth geminate ; the streaks angulate, fuscous, the cilia paler, marked with black." 

 (Kollar, 1. c.) 



The upper surface in the male is, in fresh specimens, a rather glos.sy and not very dark olive 

 brown ; on the foreiving is a very faint trace from the costa of a paler oblique medial band, 

 and near the apex a yellowish trifid spot, below which is sometimes a small round dark spot. On 

 the hindwing axe four or five submarginal blackish spots, the second usually largest and oblong ; 

 the third the smallest, the last white-pupilled and ringed with yellowish ; the third and fourth 

 are also sometimes faintly ringed with yellowish ; the margin has three narrow dark lines, 

 narrowly separated by yellowish interspaces. Underside paler, foreuing with two narrow 

 darker lines across the cell, neither of which extend at all beyond it ; a nairow sinuous dark 



