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(Tr. Bnt. Soc. Lond. 1888, 306) says it is " a common species in Sikkim from the 

 Terai up to 3000 feet ; it occurs from March to November in the form of Malsara, 

 but the form known as rudis, which Messrs. MoUer and Knyvett both think is the 

 cold-weather brood, is only taken in February, March and April." An example of 

 the wet-season brood labelled " Bhotan " is in the British Museum. Mr. de Nice- 

 ville (Butt. Ind. i. 129) records the wet-season form {malsara) from the Khasia Hills, 

 Sibsagar, and Cherra Punji ; and the dry-season form (rudis) from the Naga Hills, 

 and from the hills east of Manipur in May, taken by Mr. A. O. Hume. The dry- 

 season form also occurs in the Karen Hills in March. In Burma, Mr. Doberty 

 (J. A. S. Beng. 1886, 115) says, " I have taken the dry-season form {rudis) abundantly 

 in the Chittagong Hill tracts." Major H. B. Adamson (in his notes) records the 

 ocellated form as being " common during the rainy season at Bhamo, but males 

 only having been taken; the unocellated form not common in March." Dr. N. ' 

 Manders (Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1890, 517) states that it is " a common insect in the 

 Shan States." Captain Bingham obtained the dry-season form in the Donat range in 

 Upper Tenasserim in January, and in the Upper Thoungyeen forests in April (Butt. 

 Ind. i. 130). In Orissa, Mr. W. C. Taylor (List of Orissa Butterflies, p. 2) records 

 the dry-season form from Khurda, in March. 



SAMANTA LEPCHA. 



Wet-Season Bkood (Plate 68, fig. 2, 2a, $ ). 

 IiiAfio. — Male. Upperside of the same colour as 8. Malsara ; both wings with a 

 scarcely-perceptible extremely narrow transverse discal pale line. Foretving with an 

 indistinct minute subapical and a larger median blind ocellus. Rindwing with two 

 minute very indistinct lower median blind ocelli. Underside coloured, and with the 

 ocelli, as in G. Malsara ; the transverse discal band extremely narrow, yellow; male 

 with similar tuft on hindwing. 

 Expanse, 1^ inch. 



Dry-Season Brood (Plate 68, fig. 2, b, ? ). 

 Samanta Lepcha, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1880, p. 167, ^ . 



Mycalesis (Samanta) Lepcha, Marshall and de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 130 (1883). 

 IiiAGO. — Male and female. Upperside dark brown ; with a very indistinct pale 

 ti'ansverse discal extremely narrow line. Foreiving with two, or sometimes three, sub- 

 marginal blind ocelli, smaller than those in G. Malsara, the upper two being minute. 

 Hindiuing with one, or two, minute similar subanal ocelli. Underside darker and 

 brighter coloured, more violescent in tint, greyish externally, covered with numerous 

 darker brown strigee ; both wings with a prominent but extremely narrow ochreous- 

 yellow transverse discal band, and a submarginal series of indistinct minute black 

 spots with white pupils ; a pale speckled indistinct streak crossing both cells. Male 

 with similar tuft on hindwing. 



