128 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



Dry-season Brood (Plate 125, figs. 1, c, d, e, (J ? ). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside much deeper dusky-brown than in the wet-season 

 form, the colour having a purpurescent tint, and the outer borders are thickly 

 speckled with purpurescent-cinereous scales, Foreicing with a more acute and 

 prolonged angle below the apex than in male of the wet-season form ; the large 

 apical patch being of a rich ochreous and darkest inwardly, the patch extending 

 from within the end of the cell to the cinereous marginal border ; the ocelloid spots 

 being obscurely defined. Hindwing unmarked ; the tail much prolonged. Under- 

 side very densely purpnrescent-brown or purpurescent olive-brown, the cinerescent 

 strigce very irregular and more or less indistinctly disposed and mottled, the basal 

 area darkest, the outer discal washed with cinereous ; the ocelloid spots smaller, 

 very ill-defined. 



Female. Upperside much paler than in the male, with less distinct cinereous 

 margins. Forewing even more acutely angled below the apex than in male ; the 

 rich ochreous apical patch occupying about half the wing, extending more or less 

 well into the cell and to the posterior angle, the enclosed ocelloid spots being 

 present as in the female of the wet-season form, or the two ordinary-disposed 

 subapical black spots are developed, but both well-separated, more or less elongated, 

 and with a distinct white pupil. Eindioing with one, or two, posterior submarginal 

 white dots. Underside. Both wings dusky ochreous, with uniformly-disposed 

 dark brown striga3, which are sometimes more or less irregularly blotched ; the 

 submarginal ocelloid spots also blotched. 



Expanse, (? 3 to d^Q, ? Oj^o to Z^q inches. 



Habitat. — Satpura Hills, Central Provinces. 



DiSTElBUTiox. — The type specimens of this beautiful species were " taken by 

 Mr. J. A. Betham at Pachmari, a Sanatarium in the Satpura Hills, Central Provinces, 

 at an elevation of 3500 feet, the wet-season form having been captured in August, 

 and the dry-season form in October." Mr. Betham (Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. 

 Soc. 1890, p. 160) states that "it has the same habits as M. Leda, and has only 

 been found about Pachmari, where it is fairly abundant." 



The illustrations of this species on our Plate 125 represent the male and 

 female of both the wet and dry-season forms, from the type specimens kindly lent 

 for this purpose by Mr. L. de Niceville. 



MELANITIS BELA. 

 "Wet-season Brood (Plate 12C, figs. 1, la, b, c? ? )• 

 C'/Uo Aswa, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1865, p. 769, c?- 

 Melanitis Asioa, Butler, Catal. Satyr. Brit. Mus. p. 5 (1S68). Marshall and de Niceville, Butt, of 



India, etc. i. p. 253 (1883). 

 Cyllo trietis, Feldor, Reise Novara, Lep. p. 463 (1S67), J". 



