274 LEPIDOPTERA INDIGA. 



Leihe Venna, Butler, Catal. Satyr. Brit. Mus. p. 116 (I86S). Marshall and de JSTiceville, Butt, of 



India, etc. i. p. 1,58, pi. x. fig. 2.3, ^ (1883). Ehves, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. ISSS, p. 310. 

 Tandma Verma, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1882, p. 235. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside uniformly dusky-brown, somewliat violescent tinted ; 

 marginal lines paler bordered ; cilia pale brownish-cinereous. Foreiving crossed by a 

 broad prominent oclireous-white oblique discal band, wliicli terminates at the lower 

 median close to the outer margin. Hindwing with two or three more or less defined 

 subanal black white-pupilled ocellate spots. Underside uniformly paler brown ; 

 mai'ginal lines either pale ochreous or violet bordered. Forewing with a slender 

 indistinct pale violet-grey sinuous line crossing middle of the cell ; an oblique 

 transverse ochreous-white band as on upperside, above which are two prominent 

 subapical black perfect ocelli outwardly encompassed by a pale violet-grey line, 

 which ends more prominently on the costa above them. Hindwing crossed by a 

 slender undulated subbasal and an angulated discal violet-grey line, beyond which is 

 a series of six very prominent black ocelli, the upper one and the fifth somewhat the 

 largest, each with a white pupil, ochreous ring, a dark brown ring, and all encom- 

 passed by an outer violet-grey ring; sometimes each ocellus has a few white 

 speckles as well as the pupil. 



Female. Upper and underside as in the male, escept that the oblique white 

 band terminates below the lower median veinlet. Bodij and legs beneath pale 

 brownish-ochreous ; sides of palpi ochreous-white ; antennas black above, with 

 ochreous tip. 



Expanse, 2 to 2^ inches. 



Habitat. — N.-W. and E. Himalayas ; Assam ; Khasia Hills ; Burma. 



Distribution. — Major H. B. Hellai-d, in his MS. Notes, records this species 

 from "Masuri and Kaschmir at the end of August, September and beginning of 

 October." Col. A. M. Lang (Ent. Mo. Mag. 1864, 182) says this insect " frequents 

 a region about 200 miles from Kasauli, in the autumn, and affects trees, pitching 

 on the trunks of Rhododendrons and Oaks." Mr. de Niceville (Butt of India, i. 

 158) says, " Col. Lang's specimens were taken in Lower Ivunawar at an elevation of 

 7000 feet, and at Masuri, in the autumn. There is, however, a summer brood, as 

 Mr. de Niceville has taken it then commonly in Simla at about 5000 feet elevation 

 in forest, settled on the dark rough bark of the Deodar, where, till disturbed, it is 

 completely hidden. It was not found in Kashmir either by Baron Hligel or by 

 Capt. B. Reed. Major C. H. T. Marshall found it extremely common in Chumbi in 

 May, at Kujjiar." Major J. W. Yerbury (Ann. Nat. Hist. 1S8S, 135) records it 

 from " Thundiani, a Hill Station (8700 feet ?) near Abbottabad, in September." 

 Mr. W. Doherty, in his list of Kumaon butterflies (J. A. S. Bengal, 1886, 117), 

 records it from the " Lower Himalayan ti'act at 2500 to 6000 feet ; not very 



