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Imago. — Male. Forewing with but a very slight angle below the apex. Upper- 

 side uniformly dark oiivescent umber-brown, the outer borders slightly paler ; cilia 

 entirely brown. Typically both wings are unspotted, but in most specimens the 

 foreiving has one, or two, obscurely-defined subapical white dots, the lowest some- 

 times black-bordered, and the hindiving has a submarginal white dot between the 

 lower and middle medians. Underside dark purpurescent-brown, or dark ferru- 

 ginous-brown, uniformly covered with short grey or ochreous-grey strigse ; the 

 foreiving crossed by three, more or less obscurely-defined, darker and brighter 

 coloured narrow ordinary fascise, and the hindwing by a narrow discal similar fascia, 

 the outer borders also with a more or less-defined fascia. Foreiomg with five more 

 or less defined minute ocelli, composed of a black spot, white pupil, dull ochreous 

 ring, and a darker brown outer circlet. Hindwing with a submarginal series of six 

 well-defined black ocelli, each with a large bluish-white pupil, narrow ochreous ring 

 and dark brown outer circlet, the lowest sometimes being geminated. 



Female. Forewing somewhat more angled below the apex than in male. 

 Upperside paler. Forewing with two obscurely-defined subapical black confluent 

 spots with white pupils, and a minute white dot nearer the apex ; the dusky-black 

 subcostal pale-bordered patch more or less apparent. Hindwing with a submarginal 

 series of five small white-pupilled black spots, the upper and lowest minute, the 

 three middle spots very obscurely ochreous ringed. Underside paler, but brighter 

 coloured than in male ; with the uniformly-disposed grey strigse throughout, the 

 darker and brighter coloured fascia and submarginal ocelli also as in male. Body 

 beneath dark brown ; legs ferruginous brown ; sides of palpi grey speckled ; antennae 

 brown, with a dusky subterminal band and pale tip. 



Expanse, d" 3 to S^q, ^ 3^q inches. 



Dey-season Brood (Plate 126, figs. 1, c, d, e, (J ? ). 



Melanitis Bela, Moore, Catal. Lep., Mus. E. I. Company i. p. 223 (1857). Butler, Catal. Satyr. Brit. 



Mus. p. 4 (1868). Marshall and de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 254 (1883). 

 Melanitis Duryodana (part), Marshall and de Mceville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 257 (nee Felder). 



Imago. — ^Male. Upperside deep dusky olivescent-brown or cinereous olivescent- 

 brown, the subapical area more intensely dusky brown, the costal edge of forewing 

 and exterior margin of both wings more or less thickly covered with purpurescent- 

 cinereous scales ; cilia pale brownish-cinereous. Forewing with two moderately 

 small subapical confluent black spots with prominent pure white pupils, the upper 

 pupil large, the spots more or less obscurely inwardly-circled by ferruginous, the 

 upper ferruginous bar, generally, being somewhat more sharply defined. Hindwing 

 vrith either one, two, or three, white-pupilled minute black dots. Underside either 

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