214 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



Of our illustrations of this species on Plate 164, figs. 1, la, b, c represent a 

 male and the female from the Khasia Hills, in the collection of Colonel C. Swinhoe ; 

 figs, d and e are reproductions of the Hewitsonian figure of the type female. 



^MONA PEALII (Plate 165, figs. 1, la, cJ). 



jEmona Pealii, Wood-Mason, Joum. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, 1880, p. 177, pi. 6, figs. 3, 3a, (J. Marshall 

 and de Xiceville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 303, front plate, figs. 3, 3a, S (1883). Doherty, Journ. 

 Asiatic Soc. Bengal, 1889, p. 124. 



Imago. — Male. " Closely allied to ^. amatlmsia. Upperside coloured and 

 marked in the same manner, but with the ocelli as ■well as the strigEe of the under- 

 side showing through. Foreicing with the apex angulated but not produced, the 

 outer margin arched instead of being concave, sinuous, and the inner angle not so 

 broadly rounded. Eindwing darker coloured, and also paling towards the outer 

 margin, but with the submarginal series of arcuate marks smaller and less distinct. 

 Underside coloured and marked in much the same manner, but with more perfectly 

 formed and more numerous ocelli, the forewing having three — (the first between the 

 submedian vein and the first median veinlet, the second the largest and best defined) 

 — perfect ocelli and two or three rudimentary ones following them, and the hind- 

 wing having one rudimentary (close to the submedian vein) and six (the first in the 

 same interspace with the rudimentary one, and the second the largest of all) perfect 

 ocelli ; each ocellus dark brown encircled by a very fine line of the colour of the 

 strig« and pupi lied with iridescent silvery- white ; the thin submarginal brown line 

 more deeply engrailed." Female unknown. 



Expanse, c? 1-^q inches. 



Habitat. — Assam. 



Distribution. — The type specimens were taken by Mr. S. E. Peal at Sibsagar, 

 Upper Assam, and are in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. According to Mr. W. 

 Doherty (J. A. S. Beng. 1889, 124), " y®. Pealii appears to be the wet-season form 

 of M. amatlmsia, differing only in the less acute and falcate forewing, the more 

 distinct ocelli, and brighter colouring below. I took two specimens of Pealii near 

 Sadiya in September; the outer margin of the forewing was convex throughout, but 

 the apex was slightly more acute than in the type. On the 1st of December, I 

 caught a single ragged specimen of Amatlmsia near Margherita, apparently quite 

 typical." Mr. Ernst Hartert, who accompanied Mr. Doberty in his Assam journey, 

 also records (Proc. A. S. Beng, 1890, 205) the capture of this species. 



Of our illustrations of this species on Plate 165, figs. 1, la are reproductions 

 of Mr. Wood-Mason's figure in the Journ. Asiatic Society of Bengal for 1880. 



