NYMPIIALID/T:. SATYRTN.E. LETHE. i6i 



Allied to L. sidonis, from fiesli Sikkim specimens of whicli species it differs on tlie upperside 

 in having a bautl across the forewinij beyond the cell, and on the underside this same band 

 being very prominent, as is also the bar in the cell. The ocelli and submarginal lilascent line 

 are also very indistinct in L. viaitiya. 



Mr. de Niceville took a single male, from which the figure is taken, on the Jalauri Pass, at 

 about 8,000 feet elevation on July 29th, 1S79. In Colonel Lang's collection there is a male from 

 Narkunda on the Hindustan and Thibet Road, taken by himself in July, which is identical 

 with the type specimen ; and a male and two females from Sikkim, collecteil by Dr. T. C. 

 Jerdon, that evidently belong to this species. The latter are somewhat smaller than the type 

 specimen described above, but agree with it in the blurring of the ocelli on the underside of 

 the hindwing, and in having an ochreous bar in the cell of the forewing, which latter feature 

 is absent from all the specimens of L sidonis we have seen, and to which L. viaitiya is evidently 

 closely allied, as also it is to L. tiudas, difiTering from the latter chielly in having the ocelli 

 blurred. Z. viaitiya seems to be intermediate between Z. sidaiiis and Z. incctas. 



151- Letho nicetas, iiewitson. 



Debt's nicettts, Hewitson, Ex. Uutt., vol. iii, Debt's pi. iii, (igs. 17, iS (1^6^), /einale. 

 Habitat : Himalayas, from Sikkim to Kulu. 

 E.XPANSE : I -8 to 2-25 inches. 



Description: " Female : Upperside light rufous-brown. /^or/7y/«» with the outer 

 half darker brown, (X-ossed beyond the middle by a macular band of pale yellow, and nearer 

 the apex by three spots of the same colour. Hindiviin; with a band of five black spots with 

 rufous border ; the outer margin rufous, bordered on both sides with black ; some submarginal 

 dark-brown conical spots. Underside rufous-yellow. Foreiviitg as on upperside, except 

 that the transverse band is continuous, and that two of the three spots near the apex are small 

 ocelli. Z!'y«(/<t'»/«^ from the base to the middle rufous-brown, crossed by several indistinct 

 lilac bands ; the outer half rufous-yellow, darker towards the outer margin, crossed by a 

 band of seven black ocelli (two at the anal angle touching), each with a white pupil and 

 rufous iris bordered with lilac ; a submarginal band of silvery white ; the margin rufous, 

 bordered on both sides with black." {Hewitson, 1. c.) Male smaller than the female, the costal 

 marginonly of the UPPERSIDE of the yii'vw///^ darker, the yellow maculated band very indistinct, 

 and the two lower of the subapical spots wanting. Hindiuing with the spots smaller and much 

 less distinctly bordered with rufous. Underside as in the female. On the upperside of the 

 /5/«rt'7c/w^ in both sexes the row of black blind ocelli are very distinct; in the preceding 

 species, Z. tuaitiya, they can hardly be traced. On the underside of the hindwing the rufous 

 brown of the basal half is sharply defined, highly dentate and outwardly more or less margined 

 with pure yellow, while in Z. maitrya it is less distinct, sinuate rather tlian dentate, and with 

 scarcely a trace of yellow beyond, and that only in a Sikkim specimen. 



Z. «/c<?/(tj' is found at from 3,000 to 6,000 feet elevation in suitable localities in the Hima- 

 layas, from Sikkim to Kulu ; it does not seem to be common anywhere, and is rarer to the west 

 than to the east. In Kulu Mr. A. Graham Young has taken it in May, July and October, but 

 never plentifully. These latter are much smaller than specimens from the Eastern Himalayas. 



152. Lethe visrava, Moore. 



Debt's vzsrava, Moore, Proc. Zool. See. Lond., 1865, p. 708, pi. xli, fig. 4, fitaU. 



Habitat : Sikkim ; N.-E. Bengal, 



Expanse : 2 inches. 



Description : " Male : Upperside dull brown. Foir<fing w'lXh three small black white - 

 centred ocelli before the apex, and a marginal white line. Hindwing with six submarginal 

 blackish spots, the third and last small, bordered outwardly with white ; a marginal narrow 

 white lunulated band, and outer dark double line. Underside pale dull brown. 

 Forewing with each apical dot encircled with white; maiginal band white. Hindiving 

 with purple-while irregular basal lines, seven ocelli, each comj osed of a black spot with 



