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silver pupillation of the ocelli ; in the shape of the wings and in habits. It differs in style of 

 colouration and structurally in having the median nervure of the forewing simple, though, 

 even in this feature some species of Ypthima approach it ; but the curious construction of the 

 cell of the hindwing places it apart by itself. Only a single species of this genus is found 

 within our limits, occurring in Burma and North-Eastern Bengal ; and only one other si>ecies 

 is known which inhabits Java, Borneo, and the Philippine Islands, with varieties in Mindanao 

 and Luzon. The Indian species is a small brown insect with whitish transverse bands crossing 

 both wings, and with a complete discal series of silvcr-pupilled ocelli on both wings on the 

 underside. 



228. Ragadia Crisilda, Ilewltson. (Plate XV, Fig. 36 ? .) 



R. crisilda, Hewitson, Ex. Rutt., vol. iii, EuJ>tychia et Ragadia, figs. 5, 6 (1862), female. 



Habitat : Sylhet, Tenasserim. 



Expanse: <?, i-6; ?, 1-85 inches. 



Description : Male and Femalk : " Upperside brown, both wings crossed at the middle 

 by abroad oblique band of white ; both with a narrowband of white parallel to the outer mar- 

 gin, obscured towards the apex of the/ore7ai/ig, [and both showing the pale basal bands of the 

 underside through by transparency]. Underside white ; bol/i 7ai>igs with the outer margin 

 and five transverse bands brown, three parallel bands before the middle (crossing \.\ie forewing 

 obliquely), the fifth band near the outer margin narrow ; the fourth beyond the middle [ broad"), 

 marked with numerous ocelli, on the forezuinq by six of equal size, [in our specimens of both 

 sexes there are eight ocelli, the upper one minute, the two lowest small placed in the interspace 

 below the first median nervule] ; on the /lindwing hy seven [six in our male specimen], the 

 third and fifth the largest ; the seventh (near the anal angle) minute ; all black, with silver 

 pupils, the iris orange ; the second, third, and fourth ocelli of the hindwing enclosed in one 

 iris." ^Hewitson, 1. c.) The female is slightly larger than the male, and has the wings 

 broader and more rounded, the white markings all sullied ; all the ocelli larger. 



R. crisilda is apparently a rare insect. It was originally described from Sylhet, and 

 Colonel Lang's collection contains two males from that locality ; Kirby notes it from the Khasi 

 hills, (if this is correct it probably only occurs at the foot of them), and the Indian Museum, 

 Calcutta, has two specimens, believed to have been taken in Cachar. The only recent record 

 of its capture is by Captain C. H. E. Adamson, who took several specimens flying among 

 hing grass by the Aploon Choung in the neighbourhood of Moulmein in October, the only 

 occasion on which he ever saw them. 



The figure is taken from a female specimen in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, from Cachar, 

 and shows both upper and undersides. 



GenilS 22.— EErlTES, Westwood. (Plate XVI.) 



Satyrus\_Hif>fiarchia\, subgenus Elites, Westwood, Gen. D. L., vol. ii, p. 392 (1851) ; £'r;V«, Distant, 

 Rhop. Malay., p. 46 (1882). 



"Forewing somewhat elongate and narrow, with the f(?j/rt arched and slightly convex 

 at its apex, the apex rounded [sometimes slightly falcate] ; onttr margin nearly straight, or 

 very slightly waved inwardly about the middle ; inner margin nearly straight [about equal in 

 length to the outer margin] ; costal nervure very strongly dilated at the base ; Jirst and second 

 subcostal nervules emitted before the end of the cell ; upper disco-cellular nervule very short, 

 directed a little outwardly at base, and then somewhat concavely in its greater length to apex ; 

 locver disco-cellular nearly straight, and very slightly directed either outwardly or inwardly. 

 Hindwing irregularly subovate, with the outer margin waved and produced into an obtuse angle 

 or tail near the first [third] median nervule ; nervules well separated at their origin ; disco-cellular 

 nervules about or almost subequal in length, the upper one concave, the lower one almost 

 straight. [Head wide] ; eyes prominent and naked ; palpi clothed beneath with fine long semi- 

 erect hairs, somewhat separated and placed in tufts ; antenna slender, the apical portion 

 slightly and gradually thickened." [Body slender]. [Distant, 1. c.) 



