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upper and the fifth being the most prominent and more circular than the others, all 

 ■with a chalybeate outer ring; inner marginal line also chalybeate bordered. Body 

 beneath dark brown ; legs beneath and sides of palpi pale cinereous-brown ; 

 antennae bright ochreous, club with black band. 



Female. TJpperside pale olivescent ochreous-brown. Forewing with a broad 

 oblique discal white band, and a contiguous terminal spot near posterior angle ; two, 

 or three, small white apical spots, and two, or, three, indistinct black lower ocellate 

 spots ; a pale ochreous streak above the posterior margin. Eindiving with an 

 angulated discal brown line with irregular yellowish outer border ; two upper apical 

 and three median black spots, the two former irregularly quadrate and confluent, 

 the others rounded, the middle one being very small, the two lower with a white 

 central dot, all being irregularly yellowish bordered ; marginal lines brown and 

 yellowish bordered. Underside paler ; the base and outer borders palest. Forewing 

 with a pale bordered subbasal line, white oblique discal band, and four, sometimes 

 five ill-defined pale-bordered ocelli. Rindwing with a sinuous subbasal line, an angular 

 discal liue with irregular yellow outer border, and sis ocelli as in male, with brown 

 and yellowish outer borders. Body and legs beneath, and sides of palpi pale ochreous. 



Expanse, <5 2|- to 2f , ? 2f to 2f inches. 



Habitat. — Ceylon. 



DiSTEiBUTiON. — " Rare and very local. Observed only in two places in forest 

 land near Newera Eliya; March and April " (Hutchison). Mr. F. M. Mackwood, 

 in his MS. notes, remarks that this species is the rarest of the group, in Ceylon. 

 Mr. E. Ernest Green notes its capture at Pandaloya in July. 



Genus DEBIS. 

 Dehis, DouWeday and Hewitson, Gen. Diurnal Lep. pi. 61, fig. 3 (1849). Westwood, id. p. 358 



(1851). Scudder, Amer. Acad. Arts and Sci. Boston, 1875, p. 155. 

 Zethe (group II., part), Marshall and de Niceville, Eutt. of India, etc. i. p. 143 (1883). 



Imago. — Male. Forewing subtriangular, narrow ; costa much arched, apex 

 abruptly rounded, exterior margin very oblique and slightly concave ; posterior 

 margin short ; basal half haiiy ; a very indistinctly-defined broad inwardly-oblique 

 discal dushy fascia, comjjosed of glandular scales extending from the subcostal to the 

 posterior margin ; costal vein swollen, median and submedian very slightly swollen ; 

 cell broad ; first and second subcostal branches emitted before end of the cell ; 

 discocellulars oblique, slightly incurved, both radials close to upper end ; median 

 branches equidistant ; submedian nearly straight. Mlndwing short ; costa convex 

 at the base, exterior margin slightly scalloped and with a prolonged broad caudate 

 angle at end of upper median, anal angle excavated ; basal area hairy ; cell rather 

 long, much pointed at end ; discocellulars very oblique, long, bent in the middle ; 



