236 NYMrilALID.^. SATYRIN.^. ERITES. 



This is a very beautiful genus ; the wings are delicate and semi-transparent ; the forewing 

 has a large ocellus at the hinder angle, and four small ones above it, and the hindwing has a 

 complete submarginal row of ocelli, and both wings are crossed by two median fasciae, the 

 outer one much angled on the hindwing ; the markings of the underside show through by 

 transparency on the upperside. The M-ings of the female are slightly broader than in the 

 male, the forelegs are long, slender, destitute of hairs ; of the male shorter, and very hairy. 

 The male has no sexual glands or tufts of hair. 



Erites is an Indo-Malayan genus ; only five species are known ; the type E. niedura is 

 found in Java and Sumatra ; two species are found within our limits, one in Tenasserim and 

 the other in Cachar ; the remaining two are found in Borneo and Labuan. The Indian 

 species both appear to be local and not common even where they occur. 



Key to the Indian species of Erites. 



A. Wings pale brown, forewing with a large black ocellus at the hinder angle. 



a. The forewing not falcate ; the large ocellus blind on upperside ; and with a large 



bluish-silver pupil and wide well-defined ochreous iris on underside. 



229. E. ANGULARis, Tenasserim. 



b. The forewing somewhat falcate, the large ocellus with prominent pure white pupil 



and narrow indistinct iris on both upper and undersides. 



230. E. FALCiPENNis, Cachar. 



229. Erites annularis, Moore. (Plate XVI, Fig. 50?.) 



E. atigiilaris, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, p. 825 ; id.. Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 46, pi. v, fig. 3 

 (1882), male. 



Habitat : Upper Tenasserim, Perak. 



Expanse : 2"i2 to 2'5o inches. 



Description : " Male : Wings longer than in E. niedura, Horsfield* (from Java) ; the 

 foiai'itig being more produced at the apex and the hindim7i g -positriorly. Underside similarly 

 marked, excepting that the yelloM-bordered black spot on the fomving is more oval, and the 

 spots on the hindn'ivg smaller, this wing also having the inner yellow band acutely angled in 

 the middle." {Moore, 1. c.) 



Male : Upperside light brown. Fore-cvivg fuscescent towards the outer margin ; all the 

 markings of the underside showing through by transparency. Eindwing with five black sub- 

 marginal spots, with or without small yellowish pupils, the fifth on the lower median inter- 

 space the largest, with distinct yellow iris and fuscous outer ring, the rest with the yellow iris 

 and fuscous ring decreasingly fainter ; three dark brown lines on the margin following its 

 contour and divided by yellow lines, prominent on the hindwing, obsolescent on the forewing. 

 UNDERSfDE pale brown, pearly on the hindwing. /b;Y7w;/^ undulated throughout with fuscous 

 stride, with two fuscous bands across the disc, the inner straight, the outer concave, 

 beyond which is a large oval black ocellus near the hinder angle, with large silvery-blui.sh eccen- 

 tric pupil, broad yellow iris, and narrow outer fuscous ring ; above which are fourjsmall faint 

 submarginal ocelli ; three dark lines on the outer margin divided by yellow lines. Bvidwiiig 

 also undulated with fuscous striae ; with tMO yellow bands in continuation of the bands on the 

 forewing, both sharply angulatcd outwards at the middle ; the inner on both edges, and the 



* Erites vtcdura, Horsfield. Habitat : Java. Expanse: 245 inches. Di'SCKiption : Uppersids pale 

 brown, much darker on the m.irgins, the striae ol the underside shewing through on the basal areas. Fore'Ming 

 with a brown streak crossing the wing obliquely, nnd continued on to the hindwing, cutting the lower outer angle 

 of the cell in the forewing, and crossing the middle of the cell on the hindwing ; beyond this a much darker 

 brown sinuous streak across the disc, which is also continued on to the hindwing, where however it is ochreous 

 and highly angled, and defined with dark brown on both edges. A hirge round black ocellus near the hinder 

 angle, with a pale pupil, yellow iris and dark outer ring ; two sm.dl ocelli above, one on each side of the lower 

 discoidal nervule. Three marginal black lines divided by yellow lines. /J indwing \v'\\.\\ four large submarginal 

 ocelli, with pale pupils and wide yellow irides, all touching Three marginal fine yellow lines. UndkrsidH 

 paler, the fascis on both luiiigs ochreous ; the sub.ipical ocelli of the Jbrcivini; more distinct and three in number, 

 the large lower ocellus more oval in shape than on the upperside Hindwing with the submarginal ocelli 

 smaller and the irides less distinct. (Described from Horsfield's figure in the Cat Lep. E I. C, pi v, figs, 8, 

 8a (1829) Hewitson records (Journ. Linn Soc. Lond., Zoology, vol. viii, p 145 (1865), a variety of E. medurci 

 Uom Singapore and Sumatra, and another from Singapore and Sarawak. 



