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Female. Upperside similar to male. Underside pale oclireous, with brighter 

 ocbreous bordering to the narrow fasciae and outer margins, and uniformlj^-covered 

 with slightly- defined brownish-ochreous strigte; submarginal ocelli very small, as in 

 male. Body beneath and palpi grey-speckled ; legs pale ochreous ; antennae pale 

 ochreous with a dusky subterminal band. 



Exjjanse, c? 3 to S^-o, ? 3/(, inches. 



Dry-Season Brood (Plate 129, figs. 1, b, c, d, e, ^J ? ). 

 Melanitis aculeata, Hampson, Journ. Asiatic See. Beng. 1888, p. 351, ^ ? . 



Imago. — Male. Upperside somewhat paler olivescent-brown than in wet-season 

 brood ; outer borders very slightly speckled with purpurescent-cinereous scales and 

 brown strigse ; cilia dark brown. Foreiving with the apex subfalcate, the exterior 

 margin broadly angled below the apex ; the subapical blackish confluent-spots and 

 costal patch obscurely-defined, the upper spot with an ochreous-white pupil, the 

 oblique upper bar to costa pale dusky ochreous. Hindwinrj with two posterior 

 submarginal white dots. Underside pale olivescent-brown, washed with grey basally 

 and speckled with darker olive-brown strigae, the transverse fascige on forewing less 

 grey and broadly-defined, and speckled with dark brown confluent-strig^ ; a strigose 

 brown blotch also in the middle of cell of hindwing ; submarginal ocelloid spots 

 minute, indicated by blackish-edged whitish dots. 



Female. Upperside. Foreiving more sharply angled below the apex than in 

 male ; the apex and exterior margins tinged with reddish ferruginous ; with the 

 subapical blackish spots and costal patch more defined, the spots usually whitish 

 pupilled, the upper bar paler ochreous and somewhat more distinctly defined. 

 Underside. Both wings pale purpurescent-ochreous or ferruginous, with indistinctly 

 darker strigae, the fasciae narrow, not prominent, their borders slightly washed with 

 grey ; the submarginal ocelloid spots as in the male. 



Expanse, c? S^-o. ? ^H) to 3j^o inches. 



Habitat. — South India (Mysore, Nilgiris). 



DisTEiBDTiON. — The type specimen of M. Gokala was taken by the late Mr. S. N. 

 Ward in Kanara. Mr. G. F. Hampson (J. A. S. Beng. 1888, 351) obtained it on the 

 " northern slopes of the Nilgiris and Mysore forests at 3000 to 3500 feet elevation," 

 the wet- season form having been captured in July, and the dry-season form in 

 September and April. Capt. B. Y. Watson's Collection contained examples of the 

 dry-season form "taken at Kathlekan in the Kadur District, Mysore, in November 

 and December," and are referred to, erroneously, under the name M. Gnophodes, in 

 Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 1890, p. 3. 



Of the illustrations of this species on our Plate 129, figs. 1, la, represent the 



