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are minute, all encompassed by a pale purple-grey outer line. Hindwing with seven 

 prominent ocelli, the third, fourth, and seventh the smallest, all encompassed by a 

 single pale purple-grey outer line. Male on upperside of the hindwing with a small 

 tuft of brownish hairs overlapping a glandular patch of scales above the base of 

 subcostal branch ; and on the underside of the forewing with a very small glandular 

 patch of dark hrown scales above middle of the submedian vein. 

 Expanse, c? If, ? 2^ inches. 



Drt-Skason Bkood (Plate 68, fig. 1, c, c?). 

 Samanta rudis, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lend. 18S0, p. IGG, (^ . 

 Mycalesis {Samanta) rudis, Marshall and de Mceville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 130 (1883). 



Imago. — Upperside similar to the wet-season brood ; with the transverse pale 

 ochreous baud on the forewing narrower ; ocelli similar. Underside, various shades 

 of dark ochreous-brown basallj, violescent-grey externally, or of violescent-brown, 

 and grey externally, with numerous darker brown strigge ; both wings with a pro- 

 minent ochreous-yellow transverse discal broad band, the inner border of which is 

 sharply defined and the outer diffused ; a submarginal series of minute indistinct 

 white-pupilled ocelli, the two or three subanal being generally more developed ; an 

 indistinct ochreous-speckled pale streak crossing middle of the cell on both wings. 

 Male with the tvft and glandular patch as in the wet-season brood. 



Expanse, If, to 2 inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim; Khasia, Naga, and Karen Hills; Sibsagur; Cherra Punji; 

 Burma. 



Variation. — A male of the [?] wet-season brood, from Cherra Punji, Assam, in 

 the Hewitson Collection (from the late W. S. Atkinson), differs from typical speci- 

 mens above in being of a more ochreous colour, the transverse band but very 

 slightly perceptible and very narrow, being two-thirds less in width. Forewing 

 with small subapical and two larger median blind ocelli. Hindwing with two ill- 

 defined median blind ocelli. Underside also much paler than in typical specimens 

 and of a decided ochreous tint, the transverse discal band only half the ordinary 

 width, more ochreous in tint, and is situated somewhat further from the outer margin; 

 the ocelli on the forewing are similar, but more straight in linear series, and with a small 

 additional lower one ; the ocelli also have paler ochreous rings, and the whole series 

 are further from the outer margin ; hindwing with seven similar ocelli, which are 

 more curved in their position across the wing, and have paler ochreous outer rings. 

 A similar specimen firom Sibsagar is mentioned (Butt. Ind. i. 129) by Mr. de Niceville. 



Expanse, 1| inch. 



Disteibution. — In Sikkim, Mr. de Niceville (J. A. S. Beug. 1881, 150) records 

 the wet-season brood as " common in October, settling on the road in damp places ; 

 and {id. 1882, 56) not imcommon amongst bushes and undergrowth." Mr. Elsves 



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