100 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. ^ 



CAILEEEBIA NIRMALA (Plate 116, figs. 2, 2a, b, c, d, e, ^ ? ). 



Erehia Nirmala, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend. 1865, p. 501. 



Callerebia Nirmala, Marshall and de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 247 (1883). 



Callerebia Scanda (var. c), Butler, Anu. Nat. Hist. 1867, p. 217, pi. 4, fig. 9. 



Callerebia intermedia, et C. Gashapa, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1882, p. 236 (Varieties), 



Imago. — Male. Upperside uniformly dark olivescent vinous-brown ; cilia 

 brownisli-ciuereous, with a paler inner line. Foreiving ^iih. an obtusely-oval black 

 ocellus, bipupilled with bluish-white and narrowly ringed with dark ochreous ; 

 sometimes a minute ocellule is also present between the middle and lower median 

 veinlets. Hindioing with a round subanal single-pupilled ocellus. Underside paler. 

 Forewing with the costal and apical border speckled with brownish-cinereous scales, 

 the discal area broadly suffused with bright chestnut-brown ; ocellus as above, but 

 more prominent and paler ochreous ringed, the submarginal and discal upper dusky 

 line slightly defined. Hindwing uniformly-covered with brownish-cinereous confluent 

 strigEe ; and crossed by a slightly-defined discal sinuous brown hue and a less 

 apparent submarginal line, beyond which is a series of four upper white dots, a 

 prominent well-formed subanal ocellus, and an anal white dot. 



Female. Upperside as in male, but somewhat paler. Underside also paler. 

 Forewing less warmly suffused with chestnut-brown. , Hindwing with the submarginal 

 and discal line less defined ; a subanal and an anal ocellus below the upper white 

 dots. 



Expanse, c? 2, ? 2^-0 inches. 



Variety intermedia (Plate 116, figs. 2, b, c,S ?). Male and female. Upperside 

 similar. Hindwing sometimes with a small ocellus above the upper median. Under- 

 side. Forewing less warmly suffused with chestnut-brown. Hindwing uniformly 

 speckled with brownish-grey scales ; the discal and submarginal brown line being 

 obsolete ; with a subanal, or both a subanal and an anal ocellus, and with either one 

 or two upper ocelli, situated above and below the radial, one or other of which are 

 sometimes obsolete. 



Expanse, <S 2 i, to 2^^, ? S^^o inches. 



Variety Cashufa (Plate 116, figs. 2, d, e, c? ?). Upperside similar. Hindwing 

 with one, or two, upper ocelh. Underside of similar tints to intermedia. Hindwing 

 with a more or less well-formed discal brown sinuous line, and generally three upper 

 and two lower ocelli, or sometimes a complete series of six well-formed ocelli, the 

 upper ones decreasing in size, and the anal one also small ; sometimes the upper 

 one, the lower third, and the anal one are either absent or represented by a white 

 dot. Probably this is the wet-season brood. 



Expanse, <? 2 to 2^^),?2^^y inches. 



Habitat. — Western Himalayas. 



