SATTRIN^. 15 



CHONALA MASONI (Plate 97, figs. 2, 2a, b, c? ? ). 



Debis (Tansima) Masoni, Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 405, pi. 25, fig. 2. 



Ze^/ie ifasowi, Marshall and de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 159 (1883). Elwes, Trans. Ent. 

 Soc. Lond. 1888, p. 315. 



Imago. — Male and female. Upperside dark olivescent-brown. Foreiving with a 

 broad -white transverse discal outwardly-oblique band, which is most sharply defined 

 and somewhat sinuous on its inner edge ; the outer border of the wing being darker 

 brown, and with a subapical small white spot between the subcostal and upper radial, 

 sometimes also with a smaller slender spot above it, and an indistinct blackish larger 

 spot below it ; cilia broad, alternated with white. Eindiving with a slight white 

 streak bordering the anterior angle ; cilia white anteriorly, brownish posteriorly. 

 Underside slightly paler. Forewing with the white band more prominent and some- 

 what broader ; subapical white spot more distinct, above which is an intersected 

 paler spot, and below it a prominent black ocellus, with white pupil and ochreous 

 ring ; a short cinereous-white wavy outer line ascending from the upper spot, beyond 

 which are two whitish-ochreous marginal lines. Hindwing thickly irrorated with 

 cinereous scales ; crossed by a subbasal and a discal undulated wavy brown line, 

 beyond which is a curved series of six prominent ocelli, each with a black centre and 

 white pupil (the lowest bipupilled), a broad dull ochreous ring, and then a black 

 ring ; followed by two cinereous-white marginal lines, the inner one being slightly 

 dilated at its apical end. Body beneath, and legs cinerescent-brown ; palpi edged 

 and clothed with black hairs ; collar and side of palpi white ; antennge black, 

 annulated with white. 



Expanse, 2f to 2f inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim. 



This insect, so far as is yet known, " has only been found in the interior of 

 Sikkim to the eastward by my native collectors, probably in Bhotan or the Chumbi 

 Valley" (Elwes, 1. c. p. 315). 



Chinese allied species of Chonala. — G. episcopaUs (Pararge episcopahs, 

 Oberthiir, Etudes Entom. 1886, 22, pi. 4, f. 24). Habitat W. China.— G. prceusta 

 (Pararge preeusta Leech, Entomologist, 1890, p. 188). Habitat. W. China. 



Genus AGAPETES. 



Arge* Hubner, Verz. Bek. Schmett. p. 60 (1816). Boisduval, Ind. Meth. p. 25 (1840). Westwood 

 in Doubleday and Hewitson's Gen. D. Lep. p. 383 (1851). Butler, Catal. Satyridffi Brit. Mus. 

 p. 153 (1868). 



Agapetes, Billberg, Enum. Ins. p. 78 (1820). Scudder, Amer. Acad. Arts and Sci, Boston, 1875, 

 p. 104. 



Melanargia, Meigen, Eur. Schmett. i. p. 97 (1829). Kirby, Syn. Catal. D. Lep. p. 71 (1871). 



* Founded on the name of one of the species, therefore not admissible. 



