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the lower discoidal nervule to the inner angle, beyond these lunules in each inter- 

 space is a fine ochreous line ; across the disk of the wing, from the middle of the 

 costa to near the inner angle, is a broad bright ochreous band, its inner edge nearly 

 straight and even, its outer edge produced into points between the veins, the lower 

 portion of the band composed of two spots (the lower one very small) in the sub- 

 median interspace. Hindiuing with the ocelli of the underside more or less showing 

 through by transparency ; a series of bright ochreous lunules with inner dark 

 borders placed near the outer margin between the veins, with a darker ochreous line 

 beyond. Underside dull brown. Forewing with a whitish subbasal line crossing 

 the middle of the discoidal cell from the subcostal to the submedian nervure ; the 

 broad discal band as above, but with its edges more even and wider at its lower 

 end ; beyond it are four ill-shaped ocelli with black pupils dotted with white, a pale 

 violet ring, then a browner ring and an outer pale violet ring ; the margin marked 

 much as above. Hindwing with a subbasal line in continuation of that on the fore- 

 wing, not reaching the abdominal margin ; a discal series of ocelli placed on a pale 

 violet band, which more or less follows their outline ; the upper ocellus very large, 

 its centre deep black dotted with white, then a broad rich ochreous ring, outwardly 

 defined with a fuscous ring ; the next largest ocellus is in the first median interspace, 

 with two very small, equal-sized ocelli in the interspaces above and below it, and 

 two very small and indistinct ocelli divided by the discoidal nervule ; the bright 

 ochreous lunules on the margin of the upperside white, almost silvery on the under- 

 side." 



" Expanse, ? 2| inches." 



Habitat. — Little Nicobar. 



" This is a local form of the widely-distributed L. Europa, which occurs in the 

 Andamans (but is replaced apparently in the Nicobars by this species). The female 

 may be at once distinguished from the same sex of L. Europa by its more tawny 

 coloration on the upperside, the discal band bright ochreous instead of white, with its 

 outer edge more irregular, and by the underside of the hindwing having four well- 

 formed perfect ocelli ; in L. Europa the black middle portion of all the ocelli except 

 the upper one is entirely disintegrated and broken up into black dots. Mr. E. H. 

 Man obtained a single specimen on Little JSTicobar." 



The illustration of this species on our Plate 82, fig. 2, repi-esents the female, 

 reproduced from Mr. L. de Niceville's figure of the type specimen. 



LETHE DRYPETES (Plate 83, figs. 1, la, b, c, d, cj ? , and larva and pupa). 



Debts Drtjpetes, He witson, Exotic Butterflies, iii. p. 76, Dehis pi. 2, figs. 11, 12 (1863), ? . 

 Lethe Dnjpetes, Moore, I.ep. of Ceylon, i..p. 17, pi. 8, figs. 1, a, b, cj ¥ (1880) ; id. pi. 210, figs, 5, 5a, 

 larva and pupa, 

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