NYMPIIALID/E. SATYRINyE. LETHE. 15$ 



line from the costa towaixls the hinder an^^le, and broadly edged outwardly with whitish 

 from the costa narrowing to the middle of the wing ; a whitish trifid spot near the apex, below 

 which a greyish submarginal obscure patch, bearing three faint white-pupilled ocelli ; the 

 margin paler, witli tliree narrow dark lines. Hindwing with a narrow dark streak cutting 

 across the cell from the costa, and not reaching the abdominal margin ; the disco-cellulars 

 detined by a dark line, and beyond it a sinuous dark line across the wing; six black ocelli, 

 each with a single white pupil, the sixth geminate ; the first and fifth largest, circled with 

 yellowish, then darkish brown, then obscure grey ; three dark lines along the margin, the inner 

 one dilated between the median nervules. The fkmale is somewhat paler, with a greenish 

 tinge at base ; Wx&fornving crossed by a conspicuous white band from the costa to the hinder 

 angle, beyond and at both edges of which the apical portion is blackish, and with a trifid white 

 spot near the costa. On the undersii:)E the /oretain^ shows the same white band, broadly edged 

 with bright dark brown on the inside, and a large triangular patch of the same colour on the 

 outside from the costa ; the outer border paler, greyish towards the apex, and marked as in the 

 male. Hiiukviug, as in the male. In a single specimen received from Kulu the white band has 

 invaded the cell between the points where the second and third median nervules are given off, 

 thus giving the inner side of the band a very irregular appearance. 



The female, which is much rarer in collections than the male, was originally described as 

 a distinct species under the name isana, Kollar, and subsequently erroneously identified as 

 the female of L. rohria. The male was originally obtained at Simla by Herr von Hiigel, and 

 the female at Mussooree. Both sexes have been taken at an elevation of 7,000 feet by Colonel 

 Lang, at Mussooree, in June, and in Lower Kunawar ; in May numbers of the males were taken 

 by Major C. H. T. Marsliall in Chumba ; and both sexes by Mr. A. Graham Young in Kulu 

 from May to July, and the male only by Mrs. Deane in Chini in June. There is no record at 

 present of its having been taken further east than Mussooree. 



143- Lethe dinarbas, iiewitson. 



Debis dinarbas, Hewitson, Ex. Butt., vol. iii, Z>f&V pi. iii, fig. 15 (1863), male. 

 Habitat : North India, Sikkim. 

 Expanse : 2'i inches. 



Description: " Uppersidr brown. /^t7;-«w'«^ crossed at the middle by a very indis- 

 tinct band of brown ; a minute bifid white spot and obscure brown spot near the apex. 

 Hindwing with four obscure brown spots (one minute) near the outer margin, the spot nearest 

 the anal angle dotted with white. Underside brown. Foj-ewiiig paler towards the outer 

 margin, tinted with lilac ; the cell crossed by two rufous lines, the transverse band and apical 

 spot as above, but more distinct, with, between them, three minute ocelli (one blind) ; the outer 

 margin and two submarginal lines rufous-brown. Hindwing crossed transversely by two 

 rufous-brown bands ; one before the middle straight, the other at the middle curved, followed 

 by a band of six ocelli, each with white pupil, and rufous iris bordered with brown and lilac.'' 

 {Hewitson, 1. c.) 



\Ve have only seen males of this species from Sikkim ; the female is apparently unknown. 

 The anal ocellus on the underside of the hindwing in the specimens we have seen is geminate. 

 Hewitson's figure is much too rufous, and the lilac colouration is much too vivid. This 

 species differs from L. hyrania only in the darker colouration of the ground-colour above and 

 below ; and on the underside in being washed with lilac. In L. hyrania there is no trace 

 whatever of this colour. It is probably only a geographical variety of L. hyrania. 



144. Lethe SerboniS, Hewitson. 

 Debis serhoms, Hewitson, Ent. Month. Mag , vol. .xiii, p. 151 (1876); id., Desc. Lep. Coll, Atkinson, p. 2, 

 pi. i, figs. 4, 5 (1879), titale. 



Habitat : Sikkim. 

 Expanse : 2*9 inches. 



Description : Male : "Upperside rufous-brown. Both wings with two submarginal brown 

 lines. Foreiuing with two indistinct pale spots on the costal margin beyond the middle. Hindwing 



