l8o NYMPHALID^. SATYRIN^. AMECERA. 



Larva : " Apple-green with pale yellow lateral lines. Feeds on various grasses." 

 (Graham Young.) 



The figures show the upper and undersides of both sexes ; the male from Simla, the 

 female from Mussoorie. 



173. Amecera msemla, Feider. 



Lnsiommata marula, Feider, Reise Novara, Lep , vol. iii, p. 496, n. 858 (1865). 



Habitat : Kunawar, Pangi. 



Expanse : Not given. 



Description: "Male: Upperside as in Z. [^.] w^r^,* but with the ocellus of the 

 forewing larger, and with the two ferruginous-fulvous spots below it narrower, and more dis- 

 tant from the margin. Himhoino with four ocelli (the uppermost blind), also larger and more 

 remote from the margin. Underside as in L. [A.] schakra, but the fomoing \y\\.\\ the fulvous 

 patch extending into the cell, the streaks in the cell fuscous, the innermost shortest, the ocellus 

 larger, the streak on the inner side of it short, straight. Hinihvitig with the streaks obscurely 

 fuscous, a little more flexuous, the basal streak not at all faint, the ocelli larger. This fine 

 species stands between L. \_A.\ schakra, which Dr. Stoliczka collected in large numbers on 

 the Southern Himalayas, and our Z. [.^.] nuera ; the underside is very similar to that of 

 Z. \_A.\ schakra, the shape of the wings, however, together with the upperside reminds one of 

 the latter." {Feider, 1, c.) 



In the absence of the type we are unable to state what differences can be especially relied 

 on to separate the species ; many of the varieties of A. schakia noted above accord fairly with 

 the description of A. ma:nila, though none of them exactly agree, especially in the outline of 

 the forewing ; it seems to us probable that A. mcerula is only a casual variety of A. schakra, 

 but we retain it as distinct for the present pending further hivestigation, and in deference to 

 Dr. Felder's high authority. 



A . mcErula is apparently very rare, we have never seen a specimen. The description of 

 A, vicera from specimens from Prussia is given below. 



174- Amecera menava, Moore, 



Lastomtnata menava, Moore, Pioc. Zool. Soc. Loud., 1865, p. 499, n. 83, pi. xxx, fig. 3, male. 

 Habitat: Western Himalayas ; Beluchistan. 

 Expanse : 1 75 to 22 inches. 



Description : " Male : Upperside fuliginous brown. Fortiving with a large apical 

 jet-black ocellus, with white pupil and ferruginous iris ; also a much smaller ocellus between 

 it and the apex. Jlindwing with two similar ocelli, placed submarginally midway between 

 the anterior and posterior angles, [the inner one much the smaller]. Underside with the 

 discal portion of \ht fore^ving ferruginous ; a series of four transverse discoidal streaks, and a 

 submarginal line dark brown, each bordered with pale grey ; the ocelli as above, but with 

 yellow irides. Hi'idwhig pale greyish brown, with irregular transverse basal brown lines ; 

 a series of six black submarginal ocelli, the first five with each a white pupil, and a double 

 brown-bordered yellow iris, the sixth [geminate] at the anal angle, without the white-pupiiled 



• Amecera mcera, I/innseus, Faun. Suec, p. 275, n. 1049 (1761). Habitat : Europe. Expanse, male, 20 to 

 ^'\, female 2'i inches. Dkscription: Male. Ui'PEkside dull smoky brown. Forewing with a prominent lilack, 

 white-piipilled subapical ocellus with a mir.ute similar ocellus attached to it below, and another minute ocellus 

 placed outwardly above it ; these ocelli placed on a patch of bright fulvous, widest towards the costa, narrowest 

 at the submedian nervure, which it does not quite reach, and divided by the dark nervules. flindwing with two 

 submarginal black, white-pupilled ocelli, each surrounded by a fulvous iris, and with a small spot of the same 

 colour in the interspace above the anterior ocellus, sometimes bearing a small ocellus. Underside light greyish 

 brown. Foreiving with two transverse brown bars in the cell, and the disco-cellulars defined with brown ; the 

 ocelli ringed with pale yellow, and enclosed in a single fine brown line; the disc bright fulvous, the margin bearing 

 an inner rather broad waved dark line and two fine marginal lines. Hittd^ving with six black ocelli, the anal one 

 Kcininatc, each with two rings of fulvous and two of dark brown ; a basal, a median and a submarginal dark wavy 

 line, all paralled to the outer margin, two very indistinct waved darker lines on the margin. Fkmai.e similar, 

 but with the bright fulvous patch wider, and extending into the interspace below the submedian nervure ; the 

 disc irrorated with fulvous. Undkrside with the fulvous patch larger and brighter. It lacks the usual sexual 

 streak of the male on the upperside of the forewing. (Described from specimens from Prussia). 



