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bet\Teen the middle and lower medians. Underside : both wings with the basal 

 area pale ochreous-brown, numerously covered with short dark brown strio-ae ; 

 crossed by a prominent discal yellow brown-bordered band, the exterior margins of 

 the wings being pale violescent-brown, and the extreme marginal lines pale ochreous- 

 brown edged with black. Fore-wing with a linear row of five prominent ocelli, the 

 upper four being very small, the lowest large and situated between the middle and 

 lower median veins. Hindwing with seven prominent ocelli, the upper second, third 

 fourth, sixth, and seventh small. Male on the upperside of the hindwing with a 

 subbasal tuft of black hairs overlapping the glandular jmtch composed of jet black 

 scales. Body and legs beneath, pale ochreous-brown ; sides of palpi streaked with 

 ochreous. 



Expanse, <S 2f , ? 2f inches. 



Dry-Season Beood (Plate 69, fig 1, d, e, f, ,^ ? ). 



Mycnlesis (Samanta) Langii, de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 130 (1883) ; id. Trans. Ent. Soc. 

 Lond. 1884, p. 88, pi. 3, fig. 3, <?. 



Imago. — Male and female. Upperside. Forewing as in wet-season brood. 

 Hindioing in the male sometimes with a minute anal ocellule beneath the lower 

 median ocellus, and two, or three, upper minute ocelli above it ; the female some- 

 times also with a minute anal ocellus. Underside pale olivescent-ochreous, the basal 

 area darkest and numerously covered with dark brown strigEe ; the transverse discal 

 band narrower and paler ; the ocelli minute, those anteriorly generally absent, or 

 indicated by pale dots. Male with the subbasal tuft of black hairs overlapping the 

 glandular patch of jet black scales. 



Expanse, (?2-| to 2|, ? 2f inches. 



Habitat. — N.-W. and E. Himalayas ; Khasia, Naga, and Karen Hills. 



DiSTEiBUTiON. — From the N.-W. Himalayas examples of the dry-season form 

 have been obtained at Masuri in April and May, by Colonel A. M. Lano-. In Sikkim 

 the dry-season form was obtained in March, and " the wet-season form in Auo-ust " 

 (de Niceville, Butt. Ind. i. 129). The dry-season form is also recorded (Butt. Ind. 

 i. 130) from the Khasia and Naga Hills. A male of the dry-season form, from the 

 Karen Hills, Burma, obtained by Mr. Cowen, is in Mr. F. D. Godman's Collection. 



Of the illustrations of this species on our Plate 69, figs. 1, la, represent a male 

 of the wet-season form, from Sikkim, in the collection of Mr. P. Crowley ; figs, lb, c, 

 that of a female of the same form, in my own collection ; figs. Id, e, represent the 

 male of the dry-season form, from Sikkim, also in my own collection; and fig. If, 

 that of a female of the latter form, from Masuri, kindly lent by Mr. L. de Nice- 

 ville. 



