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two upper medians from extreme end of the cell ; submedian and internal vein 

 curved. Body rather slender ; palpi ascending, slender, compressed ; antennae with 

 a moderately thick club ; eyes coarsely hairy. ■ • 



Type. — D. Samio. 



DEBIS KANSA (Plate 78, fig. 1, la, b, ^ ? ). 

 Dehis Kama, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. Companj', i. p. 220 (1857). 

 ie//te A'dwsa, Butler, Catal. Satyr. Brit. Mus. p. 119 (1868). Marshall and de Niceville, Butt, of 



India, etc. i. p. 145(1883). Elwes, Trans. Eut. Soc. Lond. 1888, p. 308. Staudinger, Exot. 



Schmett. p. 221, pi. 78,^. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside olivescent ochreous-brown. Foretving with a dis- 

 tinctly visible broad, dusky transverse discal fascia clothed with glandular scales, 

 these scales being short, more or less broad, ribbed, and having dentated tips, with 

 numerous interspersed narrow truncate-base bulbous androconia having short hair- 

 like end and penicillate tip, and interspersing moderately long fine hairs ; beyond 

 which is a very indistinctlj^-defined small pale apical spot and two similar lower 

 subapical spots. Eindwing with an outer series of five black spots, each with a 

 narrow ochreous-yellow outer ring, the third and lower fifth spot being small, the 

 ordinary sixth or anal spot not present ; marginal lines pale bordered. Underside 

 paler, and of a uniform vinaceous tint, slightly washed with lilacine chalybeate-white '; 

 crossed by a slender dark purple-red subbasal and a discal line, the latter on the 

 hindwing slightly irregular ; marginal lines pale bordered. Forewing with four pale 

 ochreous-brown ocelli. Hindiving with six small-sized ocelli, each with a lilacine 

 outer ring ; the marginal line inwardly bordered with lilacine and ending in a 

 prominent triangular anal spot. 



Female. Upperside slightly paler. Forewing with a distinct tranverse discal 

 dusky sinuous line externally bordered by two or three sinuous pale ochreous 

 decreasing spots from its anterior end ; beyond is a small pale ochreous subapical 

 spot and two lower spots. Hindiving as in the male. Underside paler than in the 

 male ; markings the same, except that the forewing has six palely-defined small 

 ocelli. Bodij and legs beneath, and sides of the palpi brownish-ochreous. 



Expanse, c? 2f to 3, ? 2f inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim ; Sibsagur, Manipur; Upper Tenasserim. 



DiSTBiBUTiON. — " A fairly common species in Sikkim at 2000 to 4000 feet, and 

 also taken up to 9000 feet between April and October." (Elwes, Tr. Eat. Soc. 1888, 

 312.) Messrs. Otto Moller and L. de Mceville have taken both sexes of this 

 species in the Sikkim Hills at low elevations in October. It was also taken at 

 Darjiling by the late Mr. W. S. Atkinson. Mr. A. 0. Hume took it in the eastern 

 hills of Manipur in May, and Capt. C. T. Bingham obtained it in the Thoungyeen 

 forests. Upper Tenasserim, in March (De Niceville, Butt. India, 145). 



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