SATYRTNM 263 



Maliablesliwar in ^lay. Major J. W. Yerbury notes tliat he took it on Matlieran 

 Hill in October. Mr. E. H. Aitken (Butt. India, 154) " took it at Khandalla in 

 April." The type specimen was taken on the M1.2:iri3. Mr. G. F. Hampson (J. A. S- 

 Beng. 1888, 349) also obtained it on the "Nilgiris, being common from 2000 to 

 7000 feet. The late Dr. J. Shortt sent me specimens from the Shevaroy Hills ; and 

 the late Dr. F. Day specimens from Coonoor. Mr. H. Ferguson (Butt. India, 154) 

 " took it on the Ashamboo Hills in Travancore, in May, and again in Trevandrum 

 in July." In Ceylon, Mr. Hutchison (Lep. Ceylon, i, 16) " found it in the neigh- 

 bourhood of coffee plantations South of Newera Bliya, at about 3000 feet elevation '■> 

 appearing plentiful, except from January to March." Capt. Wade also took it at 

 Kandy and Dickoya. Mr. F. M. Mackwood (]\IS. Notes) remarks that it is " the 

 most commonest of the group in Ceylon, being found everywhere above 8000 feet, 

 and sometimes much lower, in shady places or in jungle, and all the year round." 

 Mr. E. E. Green obtained it at Puudaloya. 



Of the illustrations of this species on our Plate No. 84, figs. 1, la, b, c, represent 

 the male and female, and fig. Id the larva, reproduced from a drawing made in 

 Ceylon by Mr. E. Ernest Green, who found it feeding on grass. 



LETHE DARETIS (Plate 83, figs. 2, 2a, b, c, c? ? ). 



Behis Daretis, Hewitson, Exotic Butterflies, iii. p. 75, JJcIii.i pi. 2, fi^s. 7, 8 (1863), $ . 

 Lethe Daretis, Butler, Catal. Satyr. Brit. Mus. p. 118 (1868). Moore, Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 18, pi, 7, 

 figs. 2a, b (1880), S ? • Marshall and de Nice'ville, Butt, of India, i. p. 151 (1883). 



Imago. — Male. TJpperside dark olivescent ochreous-brown, glossy; cilia 

 alternated with ochreous-white. Forewing with a slightly apparent transverse 

 discal du.sky angular line, at the costal end of which is a very small ochreous-yellow 

 spot above end of the cell, and beyond are two small less distinct spots before the 

 apex. Eindwing with a submarginal row of five small indistinct black slightly pale- 

 bordered spots. Underside dark brown ; both wings with a subbasal and a medial 

 transverse sinuous darker brown duplex-bordered purpHsh-grey band, the latter on 

 the hindwing angulated between the radial and upper median veinlet. Foreiving 

 with a slightly oblique irregular discal transverse pale oclireous band externally 

 bordering the angulated discal line; beyond which are five pale purplish-brown 

 submarginal ocelli, the upper one ill-defined, each with small black centre and 

 purplish-grey outer ring ; marginal lunular line pale purplish-brown. Hindwing with 

 six distinct well-formed purple-grey ringed submarginal ocelli, each with black 

 centre, small white pupil, and a few minute white speckles ; marginal line lunular, 

 purple-grey. 



Female. Upperside ferruginous olivescent-brown, dusky brown externally. 

 Foreiving with a prominent ochreous-yellow transverse discal macular baud extending 



