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terminal area rather paler ; a large bipupilled black ocellus, broadly ringed 

 with orange and outwardly margined with black as on upperside ; below 

 the ocellus and on its inner margin the ground colour is somewhat darker. 

 Hindwing : brown densely irrorated with short white strigse which become 

 more intense and conspicuous along the dorsum and postmedian area ; 

 a dark reddish-brown sub-basal band followed by a median band of the same 

 colour strongly outwardly angled at vein 5 commencing at the costa and 

 reaching vein 1 just above the tornus ; terminal area broadly brown, faintly 

 striated with white. 



Cilia brown, inner hairs white forming a conspicuous white line along the 

 termen. 



Expanse : 6 6 2-2"— 2-7"; $ $ 2-o9"— 2-7"; very similar in appearance 

 to C 07-ixa, Moore, from which it can be distinguished on the upperside 

 f orewing, by the very much broader orange ring round the ocellus especially 

 on its outer edge. Underneath by the broader orange ring on the f orewing 

 and on the hindwing by the two very conspicuous sub-basal and median 

 reddish-brown bands which are almost obsolete in C. orixa ; by the denser 

 and more conspicuous white strigse and by the complete absence of the 

 tornal ocellus. 



Described from four males taken near Suroi, 6,000 feet, in July by Captain 

 Evans' and my own collectors and from nine males and seven females 

 taken at the same place by my collectors in August. Specimens taken in 

 July were quite fresh and those in August were worn and in bad condition. 



Lethe naga, Doherty. 



The male which has not been described only differs from the female in 

 lacking the discal white band on the forewing and on the upperside all the 

 ocelli are usually blind. In rainy-season forms the apical ocellus of fore- 

 wing is sometimes minutely centred with white. Dry-season forms have the 

 two upper ocelli on forewing sometimes centred with white -and on the 

 hindwing the ocelli in spaces 2, 4 and 5 are sometimes similarly minutely 

 pupilled. On the underside the basal half of forewing and the whole of the 

 hindwing is darker brown ; the apical half of the forewing being tinged with 

 violet. In dry-season forms which are smaller the white band of the 

 female is faintly indicated on the underside by the ground colour being 

 slightly paler. Females have on both sides of the forewing the white 

 band at the costal end inwardly produced towards the base ; and in the 

 single fresh specimen before me all the ocelli on the upper forewing 

 and hindwing with the exception of the costal and tornal ones of the 

 hindwing are minutely centred with white, in three other worn females 

 some of these white pupils are obliterated probably through wear. 



Expanse : d.s. J cJ 2-74"— 2-9"; w. s. c? c? 2-97"— 3-23". Capt. Evans 

 and my collectors took several males and a few females of the wet- 

 season form on the Burma Road, Manipur, near the Burma border at low 

 elevations from September to December ; nearly all the specimens taken 

 during November and December were badly worn. Dry-season forms were 

 obtained at the same place in June. 



This is a very interesting capture as I believe this species has hitherto 

 been known only by a single female, taken by Doherty at Margherita in the 

 Assam Valley. 



It is closely related to Lethe philemon, Fruhstorf er, from Northern Tonkin 

 and is probably conspecific as stated by Fruhstorfer. 



Lethe serbonis naganum, n. sp. 



Under the above name I propose separating the form of L. serbonis from 

 the Manipur and Naga Hills from the typical form from Sikkim. It is a 

 well marked race and differs from typical serbonis in being much larger, m::.. 



