SATYRIN^, 7 



LASIOMMATA SCHAKRA (Plate 96, fig. 1, la.cJ ? ). 



Saiijrus Schakra, Kollar, in Hugel's Kaschmir, iv. 2, p. 446, pi. 15, fig. 3, 4, (?(1844). 

 Lasiommata Schalcra, Westwood, in Doubleday and Hewitson's D. Lep. p. 387 (1851). 

 -dmecera <Sc//aiTa, Butler, Ann. Nat. Hist. (18G7), p. 163; Catal. Satyr. Brit. Mus. p. 126 (1868). 

 Marihall and de Nicuville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 179, pi, xv. figs, 45, 46, ^ ? (1883). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside ochreous-brown, somewhat tinged with olive ; cilia 

 alternated with ochreous-white. Foreiving crossed by an inwardly-oblique inner 

 discal narrow sinuous dusky glandular fascia ; followed by a large subapical black 

 ocellus with white pupil and an irregular outer ochreous ring, below which are three 

 decreasing somewhat darker ochreous spots, all being inwardly bordered by an indis- 

 tinct recurved discal darker brown line and an outer or submarginal parallel line. 

 Eindioing with a faint trace of a slender transverse discal dusky angulated line, 

 beyond which is a series of three prominent median ocelli, and one, sometimes two, 

 incipient very small upper ocelli, the three former with a black centre, white pupil 

 and a broad ochreous ring, the two upper spots, when present, being ochreous with 

 sometimes a minute black central dot ; marginal lines pale brownish-ochreous. 

 Underside grey basally, greyish-white externally. Forewing crossed by two slender 

 recurved ochreous bars within the cell, the inner one continuing across the wing, a 

 similar bar along the discocellulars, and a more sharply-defined outwardly-recurved 

 wavy discal ochreous-brown line, and a submarginal and a marginal line ; subapical 

 ocellus as above, but with a smaller black centre, larger white pupil, a pale ochreous 

 ring, and then a slender brown ring ; above this, immediately before the apex, is a 

 minute similar ocellus ; below the ocellus the lower discal area is suffused with bright 

 ochreous. Hindwing crossed by a subbasal and a discal slender ochreous-brown 

 irregular wavy line, followed by a series of six prominent ocelli, the sixth being 

 duplex, each with a small black centre and white pupil, a pale ochreous ring, a 

 slender brown ring, another ochreous ring, and then another brown ring ; the upper, 

 second and third ocelli being the smallest ; beyond are two slender ochreous-brown 

 marginal lines. 



Female. Upperside paler, and more olivaceous-brown. Forewing with the 

 ocellus, its ochreous ring, and the posterior spots somewhat broader and paler, their 

 lateral bordering line more defined, and the interspace between the ocellus and its 

 upper discal border being more or less whitish. Hindwing with the ochreous ring 

 of the ocelh broader and less defined. Underside coloured and marked as in 

 male. Body above brown ; thorax clothed with glossy virescent hairs, thorax 

 beneath clothed with greyish hairs ; abdomen beneath pale greyish-ochreous ; legs 

 brownish above, greyish beneath ; collar and sides of palpi greyish-ochreous ; antennae 

 brown, with darker ochreous-tipt club. 



Expanse, 2 to 2f inches. 



