264 LEPIDOPTEHA INBICA. 



to the submedian vein; two prominent ochreous-yellow subapical spots, and four or 

 five, small, very indistinct blackisli submarginal spots. Hindioing with, a submarginal 

 series of five well-defined ochreous-yellow bordered black oval spots, and a sixtli or 

 anal very slightly visible smaller spot ; marginal line anteriorly bordered with 

 ochreous-yellow. Underside of the same colour as in the male, markings the same, 

 but moi"e prominent, and except that on the forewing the oblique discal ochreous- 

 yellow band is much broader, and paler. Body dark, paler beneath ; palpi at the 

 sides and fore-legs beneath greyish white ; middle and hind-legs ochreous-brown, 

 hind femora in female greyish-white beneath. 



Expanse, $ ^^^q, ? 2n) inches. 



Habitat. — Ceylon. 



DiSTEiBUTiON AND Habits. — According to Capt. Hutchison (Lep. Ceylon, i. 18), 

 " found all the year round, but most plentiful in the spring on the hills of the Central 

 Province, at about 5000 to 6000 feet elevation, in grass land or close to forests. 

 Eather shy; flight rapid, often settling down in grass or on open road." Mr. F. 

 M. Mackwood notes that it is " plentiful in roadways through jungle about 4000 

 feet and over." Mr. E. Ernest G-reen obtained it at Pundaloya in August. 



LETHE ROHRIA (Plate 84, figs. 2, 2a, b, c, c? ? ). 



Papilio Rohria, Fabricius, Mant. Ins. ii. p. 45 (1787) ; Ent. Syst. iii. p. 75 (1793). 



Sati/rus Rohria, Godart, Encyc. Meth. ix. p. 479 (1819). 



Delis Rohria, Westwood, in Doubleday and Hewits. Gen. D. Lep. p. 360 (1851). Moore, Catal. Lep. 



Mus. E. I. Gompy. i. p. 217 (1857). 

 Lethe Rohria, Butler, Catal. Satyr. Brit. Mus. p. 116 (1868) ; Catal. Fabrician Lep. Brit. Mus. p. 29 



(1869). Marshall and de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 156 (1883). Elwes, Trans. Ent. 



See. Lond. 1888, p. 309. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dusky-brown, in fresh specimens violescent tinted, 

 but with age fading to an olivescent tint ; marginal lines blackish ; cilia alternated 

 with white. Foretuing crossed by a prominent violescent-white oblique discal band, 

 and two less prominent oblique subapical small spots, the upper one being cut by 

 the subcostal veinlets. Hindwing with very faint ti'aces of the pale-bordered black 

 ocelli of the underside visible ; marginal lines ochreous-bordered. Underside more 

 or less dark brown, with either a violescent or olivescent-castaneous tint ; marginal 

 blackish lines distinct, the outer line bordered with ochreous and the inner line with 

 more or less vivid bluish-grey. Forewing with a prominent transverse subbasal 

 more or less vivid bluish-grey nearly straight line ; the oblique discal violescent 

 white band as on the upperside ; a narrow bluish-grey costal spot, below which are 

 three decreasing ochreous-ringed ocelU, the lowest ill-defined, or sometimes absent, 

 all encompassed by a bluish-grey narrow line continued on each side from the costal 



