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one outwardly widely bordered with deep brown, as are also the disco-cellular nervules. A sub- 

 marginal series of six large ocelli, the annl one geminate, black, pupilled with white, the 

 black portion being often irrorated with silvery-bluish scales, with a yellow iris surrounded by 

 a brown and then a silvery ring ; the dark brown margin having an irregular purplish-white 

 line, then a narrow dark brown line, a broader ferruginous line, and lastly the extreme margin 

 defined by dark brown. Cilia alternately brown and whitish. 



Female much lighter above and below. Upperside, fornviitg with the basal area 

 gradually deepening to beyond the cell, where it ends abruptly, and is followed by a pale brown 

 band across the wing, inwardly sharply defined with its edge very irregular, outwardly diffused, 

 palest at the inner margin. The spots in the hindwing placed on a paler ground than in the 

 male. Underside, hiud-ving with the area narrowly within and more widely beyond the 

 disco-cellular nervules irrorated with ochreous, otherwise as in the male. 



As far as is known, Z. sura is confined to the north-east of Bengal, and is rare. Mr. Otto 

 Moller took two male specimens near Darjiling at 6,000 feet, in November. 



155- ZophOOSSa dura, Marshall. 

 Z. dura, Marshall, Journ. A. S. B., vol. li, pt. ii, p. 38, pi. iv, fig. 2 {1882), male. 



Expanse : <?, 2'8 inches. 



Habitat : Upper Tenasserim. 



Description : Male. Upperside, both iviitgs dark velvet brown, with a faint purple 

 gloss and in some lights a golden sheen, the outer margins abruptly paler, the pale margin 

 ■widening on the hindwing, where it occupies nearly half the wing. Foreiviiig with an indis- 

 tinct dark brown submarginal line on the pale ground. Hi7td7i'i}ig\v\i\\ four round blackish spots 

 on the pale ground, and beyond them a dusky marginal line, followed by the usual outer 

 yellowish lines divided by a fine dusky line. Underside as in Z. sura, Moore, to which 

 this species is closely allied, but the silvery-grey and chestnut markings are less prominent, 

 and the grey zig-zag lines at the base of the hindxuing are much more convex in outline. 



The spots on the upperside of the hindwing are much smaller than in Z. sura, the two 

 on the median interspaces are prominent, the other two are obsolescent. 



Taken by Captain C. T. Bingham in the lower Thoungyeen forests in Upper Tenasserim 

 in May. The type specimen, which is unique, is now in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. 



156. Zophoessa groalpara, Moore. 



Z. goalpata, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1S65, p. 768. 



Habitat : Sikkim, Assam. 



Expanse : (?, 2-5 to 2-8 ; ? , 3*0 inches. 



Description : " Male : Upperside glossy olive-brown, palest on the exterior 

 margin. Eomving with a marginal suffused brown line. Hindwing with a trans- 

 verse discal line, a submarginal series of round spots, and marginal lunulated line 

 dark brown. Underside pale glossy greyish olive-brown, suffused with darker brown 

 exteriorly. Foreiidng with two short bands within the cell, a transverse discal band, 

 and suffused submarginal line dark brown. Hindwing with subbasal transverse bifid line 

 and transverse discal sinuous band dark brown, a submarginal series of seven dark brown 

 ocelli, the last two at anal angle geminated, each with a white central dot and yellowish 

 border, the whole having an outer pale whitish border along each side, a marginal line of 

 pale lunules. Female dark olive-brown, pale greyish-brown exteriorly. Foreiaing with a 

 marginal suffused brown line. Hindwing with a submarginal series of brown pale-bordered 

 spots, a marginal narrow lunulated pale line bordered with brown. Underside glossy 

 greyish olive-brown, palest exteriorly ; markings as in male, but more suffused ; those of the 

 hindwing each with a pale border ; the submarginal ocelli less defined, the three upper par- 

 tially covered with blue, the two next wholly so, the geminated last jet-black, the whole of 

 them having each a separate pale-white outer circle. Foreiving with three small indistinct 

 subapical ocelli." (Moore, I.e.) 



