172 NYMPHALID.E. 



SATYRIN^. NEOPE. 



165. iTeope khasiana, Moore. 



M khasiana, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., iS8i, p. 306. 



Habitat : Khasi Hills. 



Expanse : 325 inches. 



Description : " Male. Allied to N. bhadra. Upperside : markings on forewing 

 similar, the two streaks within the cell much less distinct, that crossing its middle almost 

 obsolete ; the streak between the first median nervule and submedian nervure narrower, and 

 confluent with its terminal spot. Himhuing ochreous-yellow, with the costal border and 

 apical end of exterior border brown, the immediate base of the wing ochreous-brown ; a 

 larf^e oval dark brown spot beyond lower end of the cell, and a discal curved series of six 

 roiTnd spots decreasing in size to a minute spot above anal angle. Underside similarly 

 marked to N. bhadra, except that there are two subapical ocelli, the lower one situated between 

 the third and second median nervules ; the three streaks crossing the cell are zig-zag, and 

 the posterior margin broadly ochreous. Hindwing with a regular transverse subbasal ochreous- 

 white fascia, the dark spot at end of the cell smaller and more prominent, the transverse series 

 of ocelli also smaller, the interspace on both sides paler ochreous-brown." {.Moore, I.e.) 



This species appears to differ from N. bhadra chiefly on the upperside of the hindwing. 

 In the latter species there is often a distinct ocellus between the third and second median 

 nervules on the underside of the forewing. We have never seen a specimen of N. khasiana. 



The next group contains only two species in India, the remaining species of the genus being 

 found in China and Japan. Of the two Indian species, one has been found only in Upper 

 Tennasserim, and of the other the precise locality is doubtful ; both are evidently very rare. 



166. Neope TDhima, Marshall. (Plate XI, Fig. 26 ?.) 



N. hhima, Marshall, Journ. A.S.B., vol. xlix, pt. ii, p. 246, n. 6 (1880). 

 Habitat : Upper Tenasserira. 

 Expanse : 3"0 inches. 



Description : Female. Upperside ochreoiis-brown. Fornuing with a yellowish sub- 

 marginal macular band narrowed at the costa and inner margin and widest in the middle, 

 bearing three large oval black spots, one between the discoidal nervules, the others between the 

 median nervules, and (in one specimen) a small round black spot below the first median nervule, 

 and above the third median nervule is a small incomplete ocellus ; between this band and 

 the cell is another paler yellowish band, narrow, ill-defined, brightest at the costa, 

 and divided by the dark nervules. Hindwing with five prominent oval black spots 

 narrowly circled with yellow on a somewhat paler ground, the middle one smallest and 

 rounded ; a faint trace of the ocelli of the underside is seen through at the anal angle ; 

 the margin itself and two fine marginal lines dusky. Undersidk ochreous-grey, varie- 

 gated with dark brown and pure ochreous ; both wings crossed by an almost straight prominent 

 ochreous band (greyish on the hindwing) just beyond the middle. Foreiving with the ocelli as 

 on upperside, but smaller, and all pupilled with white (except the lowermost) ; beyond the 

 ocelli is another ochreous band, and two fine marginal lines and the margin itself dusky ; 

 in the discoidal cell there are three transverse sinuous brown bands, the first near the base 

 narrow, the second across the middle broader, bearing four ochreous spots and appearing like 

 two figures of 8 ; the third near the extremity zig-zag, widest at the lower end ; the space 

 beyond it irregularly variegated. Hindwing with three prominent brown spots near the base, 

 two in the cell, and one above bearing ochreous pupils, the rest of the basal half irrorated with 

 brown and bearing numerous irregular zig-zag brown lines, some bordered and some centred 

 with ochreous. Eight nearly equal black ocelli pupilled with white and banded with pure yellow 

 and dark brown, arranged in a sinuous line, the seventh and eighth confluent ; marginal lines 

 as on forewing. Cilia prominent, ochreous on both sides, marked with brown at the tips of the 

 nervules. 



