ON NEW AND LITTLE-KNOWN LEPIDOPTERA. 15 



character is found also in L, sinorLv, Hewitson, but not to so great 

 an extent. 



I am indebted to Herr H. Fruhstorfer for the gift of two pairti of 

 this interesting species from Java, but without precise locality. Its 

 habitat was previously only vaguely known as from East India. Heer 

 P. C. T. Snellen in Tijd. voor Eut., vol. xxxv, p. 4, n. 4 (1892j, 

 suggests that Dehis manthara, Felder, described' from both sexes from 

 Java, and said by Felder to be allied to Z>. mekara, Moore, is the 

 same species as I), samio. An examination of the type specimens is 

 desirable before this statement is finally accepted. 



3. LASIOMMATA LAURION, n. sp., PI. R, Figs. 5, <^; 6, $. 



Lasivmmata mcerula, Moore (nee Felder). Lep. Ind., vol. iij p. 8, pi. xcvi, figs. 2, 2a, male ■ 

 2b, female (1893). 



Habitat : Kunawur, Pangi, N.~W. Himalayas (Moore) ; Pangi and 

 Gonas Pass, Western Himalayas, 

 Expanse: ^, 2*1 to 2*4 ; 9, 2-3 to 2-4 inches. 



Description : Male. Upperside, both loings ochreous-brown with 

 a slight gloss j cilia cinereous. Foreiolng with the usual large 

 subapical white-pupiiled black ocellus set in a ferruginous ring which 

 is outwardly twice indented by the discoidal nervules ; an elongated 

 ferruginous patch posterior to the ocellus in the second, and a smaller 

 oval one in the first median interspace, sometimes with a very small 

 spot in the submedian interspace. Hindioing with two, three, or four 

 ocelli similar to the one on the forewing, the one in the second median 

 interspace always the largest. Underside, both wings pale stone-colour. 

 Fo7'eiving with a large discal ferruginous patch, extending into the 

 posterior outer half of the discoidal cell, not reaching the outer and 

 inner margins ; two dark transverse bars across the middle of the cell ; 

 the disco-cellular nervules defined by a dark line ; the subapical 

 ocellus as above, with an outer ochreous ring, which is itself out- 

 wardly defined by a narrow dark line, the ocellus placed in a laroe 

 quadrate ochreous patch : a submarginal broad fus6ous line outwardly 

 defining the ferruginous discal area ; two marginal fuscous threads. 

 Hindioing with the usual three narrow fuscous lines crossing 

 the discal half of the wing, all very irregular, especially the 

 exteriormost one ; the disco-cellular nervules defined by a fuscous line ; 



