NYMPHALID.'E. SATYRIN^. ZOPHOESSA. 167 



by four small round spots, the third from the apex slightly the largest ; all the bands and spots 

 ochreous. An indistinct sufTused suljinarginal dark brown line. Ilindwing with an indistinct 

 dark bar across the cell near its end, the disco-cellular nervules bordered on both sides with 

 deep brown, and a band beyond the cell across the wing also of a deeper brown than the ground- 

 colour. Six round black spots (the anal one small and indistinct) with pale circumferences 

 placed upon a somewhat lighter coloured band than the rest of the wing. The margin dark 

 brown with two ochreous lines divided by a dark brown line. UNnF.RSiDE paler brown than 

 above, and without any sheen. Foniving with the bands and spots as above, only more 

 distinct and yellower ; the first two of the four round subapical spots developed into ocelli with 

 lilascene pupils and placed on a light band. Hindioing slightly greenish on thf abdominal 

 margin and base ; an irregular streak at the base wide Mow the cell ; parallel to this is a line 

 from the costa to the median nervure ; beyond this a W-shaped figure, the first line of the W 

 being in the cell, the last ending near abdominal margin. Outside the cell a transverse streak, 

 somewhat straight from the costa (where it is veiy broad) to the third median nervule, to which 

 point it gradually decreases, beyond this it is very narrow and sinuous ; the first median ner- 

 vule is inwardly bordered from its origin to the i>oint where it is cut by the last named 

 streak with silvery-white, which is the colour of all the lines and streaks. A band of 

 six black ocelli, pupilled with blue, with yellow irides and narrowly circled with brown and 

 then grey lines ; the fourth from the outer angle with the blue pupil very large, and nearly 

 covering the black portion, the sixth bipupilled. A submarginal lilascent line extending up 

 the abdominal margin, l>eyond which are two dark fine lines with a broader ferruginous line 

 between them. The female is unknown, 



Z./<;/<?«/7Va appears to be confined to the Western Himalayas, and occupies the most 

 westerly range of the genus. Mr. de Niceville took a large number of this species near the top 

 of the Jalauri Pass on July 29th, 1879 ; none were on the wing, but all were settled on the red 

 flower of z.Persicaria which grows abundantly in the thick forest between 6,000 and 8,000 feet 

 which clothes the Kulu side of the Pass. Strangely enough this flower was entirely disregarded 

 by all the other butterflies (except the single Lelke makrya taken in the same place) flying 

 about, and he took them settled on nothing else. Z. jalaicrida is also not uncommon in the 

 Narkunda and Bhagi forests in the neighbourhood of Simla, at about 8,000 to 9,000 feet eleva- 

 tion, at the end of July and the beginning of August. Colonel Lang took several spvecimens 

 there in 1865 ; and in 1882 Mr. Doherty, an American naturalist, found it commonly there 

 at the same season, but we have no record of its occurrence in any other localities as yet. 



The figure is taken from a male now in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, and shows the 

 upper and undersides. 



159. Zophoessa baladeya, Moore, 



Z. baladcia, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1865, p. 769, pi xli, fig. 5, }nale. 



Habitat : Sikkim. 



Expanse : 2"i2 to 2*35 inches. 



Description : " Male : Uppersiue greenish olive-brown. Foreiving'^\\^\. three pale api- 

 cal bands, the first oblique, each extending from the costa to near the posterior angle, the medial 

 band having a linear series of small dark spots. Hindiving with a submarginal series of black, 

 pale-ferruginous-bordered spots, the lower spot with a central white dot ; a narrow marginal 

 double black line. Underside yellowish olive-brown. Forewing with bands crossing the cell ; 

 the oblique discal and submarginal baud and marginal line pale yellow, the medial band composed 

 of six small uniform ocelli, each with a black spot having a white dot and pale ferruginous 

 outer circle, the whole bordered inwardly by a silvery- white band, HitidzoiHg with a 

 straight silvery-white band from inner margin extending across the cell, beneath which it 

 terminates with yellow ; a basal streak, discal and marginal lines yellow ; the ocelli seven in 

 number, and very prominent, each composed of a jet-black spot with white central dot (the 

 lowest spot with two), and pale ferruginous outer circle ; the upper spot bordered with yellow ; 

 the others with a silvery-white inner band j space below the last two ocelli ferruginous ; 

 marginal lines black." (Mooiy, I.e.) 



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