fS6 NYMPIIALID.E. SATYRIN.E. LETIIE. 



with a series of three black eye-like spots, and an ocellus marked with white near the anal angle. 

 Underside rufous. Fore-wins; with a zig-zag brown line, and a large pale spot, bordered on both 

 sides with brown within the cell ; the disco-cellular nervules brown, crossed beyond the middle by 

 a dark brown band, bounded outwardly, near the costal margin, by a dull white spot ; a white 

 spot near the apex, and below two small ocelli, one of which is incomplete, followed by a 

 band of brown, and a submarginal band also brown. Hindioiug crossed by two brown bands, 

 one before, the other at the middle ; a brown line at the end of the cell ; a series of six ocelli, 

 the first and fifth larger and more distinct than the rest ; the outer margin and a line near it 

 black." (Heiviison, 1. c. in Desc. Lep. Coll. Atk.) 



The FEMALE is unknown ; and all the males we have seen are from Sikkim. 

 145. Loth© roliria, Fabriclus. 

 Papiho rohria, F.-»bricius, Mant. Ins., vol. ii, p. 4S. n. 446 (1787); Satyrus rohria, Godart, Enc. Me'th., 

 vol. ix, p. 479, n. 8 (1819.) 



H.\BITAT : Java, Upper Tenasserim, Khasi Hills, Sikkim, and thence through the 

 Himalayas as far west as Simla. 

 Expanse : 2*0 to 225 inches. 



Description : Male. Upperside dark brown, blackish on the outer half of the forewing. 

 Foreiving crossed about the middle by a pure white regular curved band extending to the 

 submedian nervure at the anal angle, and two ill-defined white spots near the apex. Hind- 

 wiito with two narrow yellowish lines near the margin, which are continued less distinctly on 

 to the forewing, and with faint traces of the ocelli of the underside showing through ; occa- 

 sionally some of their sites marked by a dark ill-defined spot. Underside with the white 

 band as on upperside. Foregoing with three decreasing submarginal ocelli ; a white streak from 

 the costa near apex, which dividing partially encloses the three ocelli from above, two sub- 

 marginal purplish-white lines, and before the middle a straight pearly grey streak across the 

 wing. Hindwing with a pearly grey, straight streak in continuation of that on the forewing, 

 then a sinuous line of the same colour from the inner margin directed towards the pupil of 

 the apical ocellus, and thence following its contour to the costa, and joining with the first 

 streak just before the abdominal margin, and close to the sixth (anal) ocellus ; six perfect ocelli 

 beyond, the first very large, the fifth large, all more or less pupilled with white dots, and ringed 

 with yellow, then brown, then grey ; two narrow submarginal lines, the outer tinged yellowish, 

 the inner violet-white. The female is paler on the upperside, the band of the forewit/g rather 

 wider, and the marginal lines of the hi>tdwing are yellower and more prominent. On the 

 UNDERSIDE too the colours are paler and less brilliant ; otherwise the markings are similar. 



In specimens from Sikkim the apical ocellus of the hindwing is very large indeed, and 

 pupilled with a single prominent white spot. In specimens from Tenasserim this ocellus is 

 not so large, and is generally blind ; the ground-colour in both sexes is browner, and the grey 

 markings are duller, lacking the pearly tint, and often tinged whitish. 



Lethe rohria is not uncommon in Upper Tenasserim ; it was found by Limborg at 

 Hatsiega, and on the Taoo plateau at 3,000 to 5,000 feet elevation ; and by Captain C. T. 

 Bingham in the Meplay valley in February ; and in the Upper Thoungyeen forests in April, 

 September, and October. In the Khasi Hills it is found in the autumn. Mr. Otto Moller 

 has taken it in the Sikkim tarai in July, in the Sikkim Hills, where it appears to be 

 corcmon, at 4,000 feet elevation in April, August, September to November, and also in the 

 valley of the Great Ranjit in November, at 1,200 to 3,500 feet elevation, where Mr. de Nice* 

 ville also took it commonly in October. Further to the west it becomes much rarer. 

 Dr. Scully took a pair at Khatmandu in Nepal, It is found in Kumaon at moderate elevations, 

 and Colonel Lang, R.E., possesses a specimen from Gurhwal. Mr. de Niceville has taken two 

 specimens in the neighbourhood of Simla, but further to the west no record exists of its 

 occurrence. Kashmir has erroneously been stated as a locality for Letht rohria, but this arose 

 from Debis isana of Kollar having been mistaken for the female of this species, whereas it 

 really is the female of Z. hynmia. 



