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Det-Season Brood (Plate 81, fig. 1, d, e, c?, ? .) 

 Debis Dolopes, Hewitson, Ent. Monthly Mag. 1872, p. 85, ? . 

 Lethe Dolopes, Marshall and de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 147 (1883). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside as in the wet-season brood, except that the black 

 spots on the hindwing are somewhat smaller. Underside with the basal two-thirds 

 dark brown, but slightly paler and of a duller tint than in the wet-season brood ; 

 the transverse pale-bordered subbasal and discal line and the cell streak the same ; 

 the outer borders of both wings much paler and of a very pale olivescent-ochreous 

 colour, which contrasts strongly with the dark basal portion. Foreiving with the 

 five ocelU smaller and much less defined. Hindtoing also with the ocelli smaller and 

 less defined, being about half the size of those in the wet-season brood. 



Female. Upperside paler than in male. Foreiving with the transverse discal 

 sinuous line distinctly pale bordered. Hindioing with the black spots distinctly 

 ochreous ringed. Underside as in the male, but paler throughout. 



Expanse, <S 2f , ? 2f to 3i inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim ; Bhotan ; Assam ; Khasia and Naga Hills ; Chittagong ; 

 Arakan ; Upper Tenasserim. 



To Dr. Eogenhofer, the Custodian of the Zoological Museum, Vienna, we are 

 indebted for having kindly favoured us with a coloured drawing of the type speci- 

 men described by Dr. Felder as D. Vmdhja, and thus enabling us to identify it as 

 being the same as Mr. Butler's D. Alberta. 



Regarding the fact that Vindhija represents the wet-season form and Dolopes the 

 dry-season form of this species, there can be no possible doubt. 



Of the illustrations of this species on our Plate No. 81, figs. 1, la, b, c, repre- 

 sent the male and female of the wet-season brood, from the Khasia Hills, and fig. 

 Id, a male of the dry-season brood, also from the Khasia Hills, kindly lent for this 

 purpose by Mr. H. J. Elwes, and fig. le, that of the female of the dry-season brood, 

 this latter being the Dolopes of Hewitson. 



Distribution.— According to Mr. H. J. Elwes (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1888, 313), " this 

 species is very rare in Sikkim and in Bhotan, and in the Khasia Hills. Mr. Gammie 

 took a single female close to his house, at 3800 feet, in August. Messrs. Knyvett 

 and MoUer's native collectors took specimens near Buxa in Bhotan, and I took a 

 single male myself near Cherra Punji in the Khasia Hills, at the end of September, 

 at about 2500 feet." Specimens of the wet-season brood from Shillong and the 

 Naga Hills are in the collection of Mr. P. Crowley. " In the Indian Museum, Cal- 

 cutta, there are males from Sibsagar, Assam" (Butt, of India, 146). Specimens 

 were taken by Lieut. D. Thompson on the Chittagong side of the Chin Hills, in the 

 cold weather, during the Chin-Lushai Expedition of 1889-90 (Journ. Bomb. N. H. 



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