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same ground-colour as in male, tHe prominent transverse subbasal and discal angu- 

 lated line, as on upperside, also the same, but the latter line with darker brown 

 interior border, and with a triangular dark-brown portion before the apex on the 

 forewing ; marginal lines prominent ; ocelli on both wings somewhat larger than 

 in male, and much more prominent. Body beneath, legs, and sides of palpi pale 

 ochreous ; antennse ochreous with brown apical band. 



Expanse, 2-^ to 3 inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim ; Assam ; Khasia Hills ; Burma. 



Distribution. — " Not uncommon in the lower valleys in Sikkim, where Mr. Otto 

 Moller has taken it in May, August, and October. The late Mr. Cock took it at 

 Shillong. It also occurs in the Khasia Hills and Silhet. Mr. A. 0. Hume took it 

 in the eastern hills in Manipur in May" (Butt, of India, 149). The late Mr. W. 

 S. Atkinson obtained it in Cherra Punji in October. According to Mr. Elwes 

 (Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, 314) it is common in Sikkim at the same elevation and in 

 the same months as D. Mekara, and has very similar habits." Major C. H. E. 

 Adamson (List of Burmese Butterflies, p. 8) records it from the Arakan Hills. Dr. 

 N. Manders (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1890, 518) obtained it at Fort Stedman, 3200 feet, in the 

 Shan States during the rainy season." " Capt. C. T. Bingham took it in the 

 Thoungyeen forests in Upper Tenasserim, in September." Signer Leonardo Fea 

 obtained it in the Karen Hills in September and October. A specimen of the male 

 labelled " Sumatra," is in the British Museum. 



DEBIS DISTANS (Plate 80, fig. 1, la, b, (J ? ). 

 Lethe Distans, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1870, p. 448, J' ; id. Lep. Exotica, p. 87, pi. 33, fig. 4, 

 6, 7, c? ? (1872). Marshall and de NiceviUe, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 148 (1883). Elwes, Trans. 

 Ent. Soc. Lond. 1888, pp. 309, 313. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside olivescent ochreous-brown. Forewing with faint 

 indication of a dusky transverse discal glandular fascia. Hindwing with the outer 

 half red, the dividing discal line angulated at the upper median veinlet ; a sub- 

 marginal series of five black spots, of which the three lower are small. Underside 

 pale ochreous-brown, the darker shades more olivescent-brown ; marginal lines dark 

 brown ; transverse subbasal and discal dark brown line narrow, the former slightly 

 angulated, the latter on the forewing angulated on the ujjtper and middle medians 

 (more acutely than in D. Chandica), and on the hindwing acutely angulated on 

 the upper median (but less so than in D. Chandica). Forewing with six pale ocelli. 

 Hindiving with six ocelli, each with a black centre and white speckles, these ocelli 

 are of similar shape to but smaller than those of D. Chandica. 



Female. Upperside ferruginous-red. Forewing with the apical half dusky 

 ferruginous-brown ; crossed by an angular discal macular white band, composed of 



