SATYRINJE. 53 



CHORTOBIUS NEOZA (Plate 104, figs. 4, 4a, ^ ? ). 



Epinephele Neoza, Lang, Ent. Monthly Mag. 18G8, p. 35. Marshall and do Niceville, Butt, of India, 



etc. i. p. 209 (1883). 

 Epinephele ptilehella. Marshall and de NicuviUe, Butt, of India, etc. pi. xv. fig. 40, ,^ (riffltt hand 



half only). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside cinereous olivescent-brown ; cilia dark cinereous- 

 brown. Forewing with the discal area broadly suffused with a glossy brownish- 

 fulvous and indistinctly traversed by the brownish veins ; a subapical blackish spot. 

 Underside ochreous cinereous-brown. Forewing with the discal area bright fulvous, 

 crossed by a very faint trace of an angulate discal red-brown line, and a lunulate 

 blackish submarginal line ; subapical ocellus prominent, with a minute white pupil 

 and pale ochreous outer ring ; costal and outer border very indistinctly flecked with 

 brownish strigse. Hindwing indistinctly flecked with brownish-speckled strigse, and 

 crossed by an indistinct subbasal and a discal sinuous angulate blackish line, and 

 a more lunulate submarginal line. 



Female. Upperside paler brown. Forewing with the discal area brighter 

 brownish-fulvous than in the male ; crossed by a very indistinct angulated brownish 

 discal line ; subapical spot larger, with a pale ochreous outer ring, and sometimes 

 with a minute white pupil. Hindioing with the submarginal lunulate line of the 

 underside very slightly apparent. Underside. Forewing brighter fulvous than in 

 upperside, the angulate discal line very indistinct, submarginal lunulate blackish 

 line slender ; ocellus with white pupil and pale ochreous outer ring. Eindwing as 

 in the male. 



Expanse S ? If to If inches. 



Habitat. — Western Himalayas. 



The male of G. Neoza is distinguishable from that sex of C. imlchra by its 

 somewhat smaller size, wider area of the brownish-ochreous patch on the upper- 

 side, and in the absence of the transverse discal angulate line. Colonel Lang, in 

 his original description of the male oi Neoza (I.e. p. 35) certainly refers to this form, 

 and in a letter received (dated January 1st, 1875) he says, " The original Neoza (from 

 which I described) were larger than pulchella, and free from the angular transverse 

 line outside the end of the disc." 



Distribution. —According to Col. A. M. Lang (Ent. Mo. Mag. 1868, 35), " this 

 species appears to be common in Goolmurg, Kashmir, although in Kunawur it 

 seems to be rare and confined to only a few localities." Our collection contains 

 specimens taken by Major H. B. Hellard at " Pangi and Runang Pass in 

 Busahir; at 10,000 to 12,000 feet elevation, in July and August, 1871, and at 

 Tasho-am in Dras River Valley, July, 1873." Both sexes are in Mr. J. H. Leech's 

 collection, taken by Mr. McArthur at " Dana, June, 1888." 



