SATTRIN^. 95 



DALLACHA HYAQRIVA (Plate 115, figs. 1, la, 5 ? V 

 Yphthima Hyagriva, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. East India Compy., i. p. 236 (1857). Hewitson, 



Trans. Ent. Soc. Lend. 1885, p. 291, pi. 18, fig. 11. 

 Ypihima Hyagriva, Butler, Catal. Satyr. Brit. Mus. p. 152 (1868). Marshall and de Nicdville, Butt. 



of India, etc. i. p. 226, pi. 17, fig 64, ? (1883). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark olivescent brown ; cilia cinereous-bro'vm witli 

 a paler inner line ; both wings with a dusky-brown subraarginal fascia. Forewing 

 with a prominent large broadly-oval or rounded subapical black ocellus, bipupilled 

 with bluish-white and ringed with ochreous, sometimes a single white pupil only is 

 present, and in some a minute ocellule is also present between the lower median 

 veinlets. Hindioing with a large round subanal ocellus with a single pupil and 

 ochreous ring. Underside deep olivescent brownish-ochreous ; cilia brownish- 

 ochreous with a brown line. Foretcing with the costal edge and outer border 

 slightly flecked with brown strigge ; a distinct broad dusky -brown submarginal fascia 

 and a slender black marginal line ; ocellus, as in upperside, bipupilled, and below it 

 is one, or two, white spots between the medians, the lower one being sometimes a 

 fully developed minute ocellus. Hindwing numerously covered with dusky-brown 

 waved strig« ; a submarginal dusky-brown fascia ; a large geminated pair of apical 

 ocelli, each with a bluish-white pupil and both encompassed by an ochreous ring ; a 

 similar geminated pair of anal ocelli, and between the upper and lower medians two 

 intervening white dots are generally present. 



Female. Upper and underside as in the male ; sometimes a minute anal ocellus 

 being present on upperside of the hindwing. Body beneath, palpi, and legs olives- 

 cent brownish-ochreous ; antennae brown above and ochreous beneath in male, 

 reddish in the female. 



Expanse, <? Ij^) to I^-q, S l^-o to 2 inches. 



Habitat. — Western Himalayas. 



Distribution. — In the late Mr. W. S. Atkinson's collection we verified speci- 

 mens labelled " Tavi Valley, Kashmir," and " Chumba," and in a MS. Note, he says, 

 " I have a specimen from Kumaon, and I took two or three near Thana Mandi just 

 before crossing the Ruttan Pir. It seemed common there. I also took a specimen 

 on the outer hills of Chumba." Major H. B. Hellard obtained it at " Masuri at the 

 end of September, or beginning of October " (MS. Notes). In Mr. G. F. Hampson's 

 collection are specimens taken by " Colonel A. M. Lang in Gin Chini, Kumaon, at 

 6000 feet in September, and at Naini Tal, 6500 feet, in August." Mr. W. Doherty 

 (J. A. S. Beng. 1886, 119) says, "I found Hyagriva not uncommon at various points 

 in Kumaon, from 3000 to 7000 feet elevation, during the rains." " Mr. A. Graham 

 Young took it in the Kulu Valley in August and September " (Butt. Ind. 226). 

 We have a specimen from General G. Ramsay's Nepal collection. 



