SATYEIN^. 205 



Expanse, 2 to 2| inches. 



Habitat.— N.-W. Himalayas ; Nepal. 



Distinguishable from typical S. Mahara by its narrower transverse discal band 

 on the upper and underside in both the wet and dry-season brood, and distinctly 

 smaller blind ocelli. 



DiSTETBUTiON. — Confined to the N.-W, Himalayas and Nepal Valley. Obtained 

 by the late Major-Gen. G. Ramsay during his residency at Kathmandu. Col. A. M. 

 Lang obtained it at Masuri in May. It has also been taken in Kangra. In Kumaon, 

 Mr. W. Doherty took the wet-season form in the Kali, Gori, and Sarju Valleys, 

 2000 to 4000 feet, in August and September. The dry-season form (lepcha) taken in 

 the Lower Kali Valley, 3000 feet, in November, rare. (Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 

 1886, p. 115). 



SAMANTA BETHAMI. 



Dry-Season' Bkood (Plate 68, fig. 4, ^ ). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside olivescent ochreous-brown, with the narrow pale 

 transverse discal band of the underside plainly visible ; marginal lines slightly paler. 

 Foretving with a minute subapical and a small lower median ill-defined blind ocellus. 

 Hmdwing with two very small median blind ocelli. Underside dark cinereous pur- 

 purescent-brown basally, pale pvirpurescent greyish-brown externally, with numerous 

 slightly darker slender strigse ; transverse discal fascia pale ochreous-white and sharply 

 defined internally but diffused externally. Foreioing with minute white-pupilled 

 black spots. Hindwing with seven similar minute spots, the upper third almost 

 obsolete ; marginal lines slender, indistinct. A small glandular iMfcU of black 

 scales on underside of the forewing on the submedian vein, and a similar patch on 

 upperside of the hindwing overlapped by the subbasal tuft of dusky-brown hairs. 



Expanse, J 1| inch. 



Habitat. — Pachmarhi, Central India. 



DiSTEiBUTiON. — A single male of this butterfly taken by Mr. J. A. Betham at 

 Pachmarhi, 3500 feet, a sanitarium in the Salpura Hills, Central Provinces, in June, 

 1886, now in Colonel C. Swinhoe's collection, is all that is at present known to 

 us. It is undoubtedly a specimen of a dry-season form, and a Samanta, but no 

 specimens of its ocellated or wet-season form have come under our examination. The 

 only other known allied species of the genus is that from the Anaymalai Hills, in the 

 extreme south of India, described on next page. In his " Notes on the Butterflies of the 

 Central Provinces " (Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 1890, 157) Mr. Betham probably 

 refers to this species, under the name M. Malsara, wherein he says, " This is the 

 rains form of rudis ; I have taken but few specimens of these two forms, in fact I do 

 not think I have yet taken Malsara. It is also a darker insect, but the underside 

 has a redder tinge than the others." 



