SATTRIN^. 133 



Expanse, c? 2^o to 2i^o. ? 2j^ to 2i^ inches. 



Habitat. — South India. 



DiSTEiBUTiON. — The type specimens of the female of the wet-season form, 

 described erroneously as male and female, were taken in North Kanara by Mr. "Wise, 

 and the type of the dry-season form was also taken in N. Kanara by the late Mr. 

 S. N. "Ward. In the Nilgiris, Mr. G. F. Hampson obtained it at from 3000 to 4000 

 feet elevation, being common on the lower slopes, flying round trees at dusk, the 

 wet-season brood appearing in June and the dry-season brood in December. In 

 Mr. Hampson's MS. Notes the wet-season brood is recorded as having been taken 

 in " July, August and October, and the dry-season brood also in April, July and 

 November." We also possess specimens of the dry-season brood from Capt. E. Y. 

 "Watson, which were taken numerously at Kathlekan, Kadur District, Mysore, in 

 November, December and January. The late Capt. Bayne Eeed took it in the 

 Wynaad, and we have it from Mynall, Travancore, 2500 to 3000 feet, taken in 

 March. 



Of our illustrations of this species, Plate 127, figs. 1, la, b, c, d, represent the 

 male and females of the wet-season brood ; 1 and la the male ; lb and c the female, 

 and Id the type female described as Ampa by Ool. Swinhoe. The dry-season brood 

 is represented on Plate 128, figs. 1 and la, the upper and underside of typical male 

 (Varaha), figs, lb and c, also males, and figs, d, e, f, the female of the dry-season 

 brood. 



MELANITIS GOKAIA. 



Wet-Season Beood (Plate 129, figs. 1, la, (J). 



Melaniiis Gokala, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. Company, i. p. 224 ^ (1857). Marshall and de 



Niceville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 256 (1883). 

 Melaniiis aculeata, Hampson, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, 1888, p. 351 (wet-season form). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark olivescent-brown ; cilia dark-brown. Foreiving 

 with the exterior margin nearly straight, with but a very slight angle below the 

 apex; two subapical more or less indistinctly-defined large blackish spots and 

 obliquely-continued patch to the costa, the subapical spots when less defined being 

 without pupils, but in others, where these spots are more defined, the two white 

 pupils are present, and in these latter specimens the ordinary upper pale bar is 

 very obscurely brownish-ochreous. Eindicing with one, or two, posterior sub- 

 marginal white dots. Underside with the ground-colour pale glossy olivescent- 

 brown, very indistinctly speckled with grey strigge, which are most numerous and 

 distinct on the basal area, and borders of the fascia, or the ground-colour is pale 

 ochreous with dark ferruginous-brown strigge, and the fascias more defined and 

 bordered with grey strigse ; the submarginal series of ocelli very small, white 

 pupilled. 



