242 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



DEBIS SAMIO (Plate 78, fig. 2, 2a, c? ? ). 



Behis Samio, Doubleday and Hewitson, Gen. D. Lep. pi. 61, fig. 3 (1849), $ . West\vood,id. p. 360 



(1851), c?. 

 Lethe Samio, Butler, Catal. Satyr. Brit. Mus. p. 118 (1868). Marshall and de Niceville, Butt, of 



India, etc. i. p. 145 (1883), (J. 

 Debis Purana, Felder, Wien. Ent. Monat. iii. p. 401 (1859), ? . 

 Lethe Purana, Butler, Catal. Satyr. Brit. Mus. p. 118 (1868). Marshall and de Niceville, Butt, of 



India, etc. i. p. 146, ? . 



Imago. — Male. Upperside olivescent ochreous-brown. Foreiinng without mark- 

 ings, but crossed by a very indistinctly-defined broad inwardly-oblique discal dusky 

 fascia composed of glandular scales. Hindwing witli six submarginal black spots, 

 of whicb tbe upper third and the lowest are minute, the second the largest, and 

 each bordered by a pale reddish- ochreous outer ring, the border of the upper three 

 being broadly confluent. Underside paler and of a reddish tint ; both wings with a 

 slender lilacine outer bordered subbasal and a discal transverse red-brown line, the 

 latter, on the hindwing, being incurved anteriorly and much angulated between the 

 upper median and the radial. Forewing with four pale ocelli, each with a lilacine 

 outer ring. Hindiving with six prominent ocelli, the sixth duplex, each with a 

 lilacine outer ring ; a lilacine spot at anal angle. 



Female. Upperside paler, more olivescent-ochreous in tint. Foreiving crossed 

 by an oblique discal decreasing, almost macular, white fascia, which is diffused 

 externally ; beyond is an adjacent obsolescent white spot between the upper and 

 middle median veinlets. Hindwing crossed by a dusky-brown discal line, which is 

 angulated outward just above the upper median veinlet, the angle being darker 

 brown ; beyond are four large black submarginal spots broadly circled with ochreous- 

 yellow ; marginal line ochreous bordered. Underside paler olivescent ochreous- 

 brown, palest externally ; marginal lines ochreous bordered ; both wings crossed by 

 a straight subbasal darker brown line with lilacine outer border. Forewing also 

 crossed by an oblique similar discal line with broader lilacine outer fascia, beyond 

 Avhich are four pale ochreous-bordered small ocelli. Eindioing also crossed by 

 an angular discal brown line as in the male ; the six ocelli also as in the male, 

 each with an outer lilacine ring ; a lilacine triangular anal spot below the lower 

 ocellus. 



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

 Habitat. — East India. 



The only specimens of this species as yet known to us are the male type of D. 

 Samio in the British Museum Collection (Plate 78, fig. 2), of which no definite 

 locality is known, other than that of " East India," and the female in Dr. Felder's 

 Collection, deso-ibed by him as D. Purana, but without any given locahty. For the 



