250 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. ♦ 



Hewitson Collection at the British Museum, and two females in our own cabinet. 

 Mr. Elwes (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1888, 314) records " a pair taken by Mr. Knyvett atBuxa, 

 in Bbotan." 



Of the illustrations of this species on our Plate Wo. 80, fig. 1 represents the 

 male, and figs. 1, la, the type female, described and figured by Mr. Butler in the 

 Lep. Exotica. 



DEBIS VINDHYA. 



Wet-skason Brood (Plate 81, fig. 1, la, b, c, ^ , $ ). 

 Behis Vindhya, Felder, Wien. Ent. Monats, iii. p. 402 (1859), ^. 

 Lethe Vindhya, Butler, Catal. Satyr. Brit. Mus. p. 119 (1868). Marshall and de Niceville, Butt, of 



India, etc. i. p. 146 (1883). Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soo. Lend. 1888, pp. 309, 313. 

 Lethe Alberta, Butler, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1871, p. 283, (J ; id. Lep. Exotica, p. 87, pi. 33, 



fig. 5 (1872), i . MarshaU and de Nice'viUe, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 147 (1883). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark violescent ochreous-brown ; cilia alternated 

 with cinereous. Forewing with an indistinctly-defined transverse discal erect 

 straight diffused dusky line. Hindiving with a similar wavy curved discal line, be- 

 yond which is a series of five large blackish spots, each with a slight rufescent outer 

 ring, the four upper blind, the filth with a minute white pupil ; at the anal angle is 

 a more or less indistinct sixth minute ocellus. Underside dark olivescent ochreous- 

 brown ; crossed by a glossy lilacine-blue outer-bordered straight subbasal dark 

 brown line and a discal line, the latter line on the hindwing being very slightly but 

 bluntly angulated on the median veins ; a short lilacine-bordered streak also crossing 

 middle of the cell of the forewing ; marginal Hues dark brown. Forewing with a 

 slightly curved series of six ocelli, the upper one sometimes undeveloped, each with 

 very small black centre and white pupil, an ochreous ring, then a brown ring, and lastly 

 an outer lilacine-blue ring. Hindwing with a series of six prominent, black ocelli, the 

 upper first and fifth the largest, the lowest duplex, each with a Avhite pupil, an 

 ochreous ring, then a brown ring, and lastly a distinct glossy lilacine-blue outer 

 ring; inner marginal line also lilacine bordered and with a subanal lilacine tri- 

 angular streak. 



Female. Upperside somewhat paler. Foreiuing with the transverse discal 

 line more or less slightly sinuous and also slightly pale-bordered externally ; the 

 anterior ocelli of the underside being also slightly visible. Hindwing with more pro- 

 minent ocelh, and each with brighter reddish-ochreous outer ring. Underside some- 

 what paler than upperside ; the transverse lines the same, though the discal line on 

 the hindwing is slightly moi'e angular; ocelli the same. Body and legs beneath pale 

 brownish-ochreous ; sides of palpi ochreous-white ; antenna reddish-ochreous with 

 pale rings and blackish subterminal band. 



Expanse, c? 2t to 2|, ? 3 to 3|- inches. 



