206 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



SAMANTA DAVISONI (Plate 68, fig. 3,<^). 



litAGO. — Male. Up23erside dark olivescent oclireous-brown, Botli wings witli 

 a faint trace of the discal transverse band of the underside seen from above ; cilia 

 whitish and distinctly alternated with black at end of the veins. Foreiving with a 

 small black spot between the middle and lower median veins. Hindiving with two 

 small black spots, of which the upper one is between the upper and middle medians 

 and the other between the middle and lower medians ; submarginal lunular lines 

 pale, indistinct, the intervening line and the extreme marginal line of both wings 

 being blackish. Underside darker, purpurescent in tint ; basal area with numerous 

 indistinct black strigoe. Both wings with a prominent sharply-defined white trans- 

 verse discal baud, the outer edge of which is blackish; marginal lunular lines 

 ochreous. Forewing with six ocelli on a purple-brown ground-colour, of which the 

 four upper are minute and the third and fourth incomplete ; the fifth (between the 

 middle and lower median) moderately large, the sixth minute, and the whole encom-. 

 passed by the ordinary pale violet-grey line. Hinclioing with seven ocelli, on a 

 purple-brown ground-colour, of which the three middle ones are somewhat pointed 

 externally, and the third, fourth, and seventh the smallest. Male with a small patch 

 of black scales on underside of the forewing, and a similar patch on the upperside of 

 hindwing overlapped by a subbasal tuft of brown hairs. Body dark brown ; palpi 

 and legs paler; edges of palpi ochreous. Antennas bright ochreous towards the end, 

 with- the tip black. 



Expanse, S l-i inch. 



Habitat. — Anaypialai Hills, S. India. 



DiSTEiBUTiON. — A single male of this species, here described and figured, was 

 taken by Mr. Davison on the Anaymalai Hills, south of the Palghat Gap, at 3000 to 

 4000 feet elevation, and is now in the collection of Mr. F. D. Godman. 



SAMANTA NICOTIA. 



"Wet-Season Brood (Plate 69, figs. 1, la, b, c, S ? )• 

 Mijcaleds MeoHa, DouLk-day and Hewitson, Geuera of D. Lep. p. 391, pi. 66, fig. -1, $ (1851). 

 Hewitson, Exot. Butt. iii. Myc. pi. 1. fig. 1, ^ (1862). Butler, Catal. Satyr. Brit. Mus. p. 139 

 (1868). 

 Samanta Nicotia, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lend. 18S0, p. 167. 



Mycalesk (Samanta) Nicotia, Marshall and de Nict'ville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 129 (1S83). 

 Imago. — Male and female. Upperside dark olivescent ochreous-brown, exterior 

 marginal lines and cilia pale ochreous. Forewing with a moderate-sized subapical 

 ocellus having a very minute lower ocellule attached to it, and a very large lower 

 median black ocellus, both ringed with pale ochreous ; transverse discal line of the 

 underside very slightly perceptible above. Hindwing with a moderate -sized ocellus 



