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veinlet in the fore-wing and also slightly on the medians in the hindwing, both 

 lines also broadly bordered externally with glossy lilacine pinkish-white ; marginal 

 lines dark brown, slender. Forewing with five, generally six, small uniformly-sized 

 pale ocelli, each with minute black centre and a shghtly perceptible white pupil, all 

 encompassed by a lilacine outer ring. Hindwing with six more prominent ocelli, the 

 upper and the fourth being rounded, the others more oval and the lowest duplex, 

 each with a dark brown-black centre speckled with white, and with a prominent 

 lilacine outer ring. 



Female. Upperside dusky-red, apical half of the forewing, and marginal border 

 of hindwing darker olivescent-brown ; marginal lines of hindwing dark brown and 

 interlined with ochreous. Foreioing with an angulated, macular, white band bordering 

 the transverse discal blackish line, and a small white apical spot, below the latter, 

 in some specimens, are three small incipient pale ocelli. Hindtving with a slightly 

 apparent transverse discal blackish angulate line, five large black submarginal spots, 

 and sometimes a less apparent small lower spot, all more or less with a paler red 

 outer ring, or in some their outer border is of a pale ochreous tint. Underside of 

 the same paler colour as in male, the transverse subbasal line.on both wings is straight, 

 but the discal line on the forewing is broadly angulated outward on the upper 

 median vein, and its costal end terminates inward nearer the subbasal line ; the 

 discal line on the hindwing is also somewhat more angulated than in the male ; the 

 discal line on the forewing has a broad lilacine-white macular outer border, and this 

 line on the hindwing is also more or less broadly bordered, externally with 

 lilacine-white ; ocelli on both wings as in the male, except that on the forewing the 

 ocellus between the middle and upper medians is pushed slightly outward by the 

 white dentate spot. Body and legs beneath, and sides of palpi pale brownish- 

 ochreous ; antennse reddish with brown apical band. 



Expanse, 2^ to 3 inches. 



Dey-Season Brood (Plate 79, fig. 1, c, cj). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside as in the wet-season brood. Underside much paler 

 and more uniformly coloured throughout than in the male of the wet-season brood, 

 and more ochreous in tint ; the transverse lines very slightly, or not all, bordered 

 externally with glossy lilacine, the lilacine bordering to the ocelli also less, or 

 entirely absent ; the ocelli on both wings less defined and smaller, especially those 

 on the hindwing. 



Expanse, c? 2f inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim; j^ssam; Khasia Hills; Burma; Malayia. 



DiSTRiBOTiON. — According to Mr. Elwes (Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, 313) this is " a 

 common species in the low valleys and up to 5000 feet, in Sikkim, from March to 



