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Hindiving -witli a discal very miicli angled dark-brown line, witliin wliicli is a very 

 distinct lilac litura above the third median nervule and just beyond the apex of the 

 cell ; the submarginal ocelli large, the upper one distinctly pupilled with white, and 

 all of them profusely speckled with white ; the usual marginal markings." Male 

 unknown. 



Expanse, 2-^f^ inches. 



Habitat. — Sibsagar, Assam. 



The male of this species is unknown. The type specimen, from which the 

 illustrations on our Plate No. 80, fig. 2, 2a, are taken, is in the Indian Museum, 

 Calcutta, and has been kindly lent to us for this purpose, by Prof. J. Wood-Mason. 



DEBIS CHANDICA (Plate 79, fig. 2, 2a, b, (J ?). 

 DeMs Chaiidica,Uooxe, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. Compy. i. p. 219 (1857). 

 Lethe Chandica, Butler, Catal. Satyr. Brit. Mus. p. 119 (1868). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dusky -brown, darkest basally ; cilia pale cinereous- 

 ochreous. Foreiving with the discal transverse .glandular fascia broad and peceptibly 

 blackish. Eindunng with the four, or five, submarginal blackish spots scarcely 

 visible, in some they are more or less apparent, whilst in some Sikkim specimens 

 taken in March, these spots are more or less distinctly red bordered. Underside 

 pale greyish ochreous-brown, more or less purplish tinged ; marginal lines promi- 

 nent and ochreous bordered. Both wings with a dark red-brown angulated subbasal 

 line, and a more irregularly-angulated discal line, the latter hne on the forewing 

 being obsolescent anteriorly, and on the hindwing much angularly projected outward 

 on the middle median, both lines on the forewing being pale lilacine bordered exter- 

 nally, and the intermediate area between the lines on the hindwing ochreous towards 

 the costa and increasingly dark brown bordering the outer angles. Foreiving with 

 six small almost equal-sized pale oceUi, each with a slightly-defined minute blackish 

 centre and a scarcely visible white pupil, and outer lilacine ring. Hindwing with six 

 prominent ocelU, each with a black-brown and white- speckled centre, the upper 

 ocellus being the largest and rounded, the second reniform, the others more oval, 

 and all encompassed by a lilacine outer border. 



Female. Upperside dusky-red, the apical half of forewing and outer margin of 

 hindwing blackish-brown. Foreiving with an angular discal white macular band, 

 composed of three portions, beyond which is a submarginal series of six 

 more or less defined small black white-bordered ocellated spots. Hindwing 

 with the inner marginal border and the median area blackish-brown ; marginal 

 lines prominent and ochreous bordered anteriorly ; six submarginal more or less 

 defined large ocellate spots, each with a black centre, pale reddish iris, black 

 outer ring, and all more or less with a pale ochreous border. Underside of the 



