276 LEPIDOPTERA INBICA. 



slender, very hairy in front; middle and hind femora hairy beneath; antenna 

 short and with an elongated well-formed club. 

 Type. — S. Sidonis. 



SINCHULA SIDONIS. 



Wet-Season Brood (Plate 87, figs. I, la, $). 



DcUs Sidmis, Hewitson, Exotic Butt. iii. p. 77, Dehis pi. 3, fig. 16 (1863), c?. 



Zethe Sidonis, Butler, Catal. Satyr. Brit. Mus. p. 116 (1868). Marshall and de Niceville, Butt, of 



India, etc. i. p. 159 (1883). Staudinger, Exot. Schmett. p. 221, pi. 78, c?. Elwes, Tr. Ent. Sec. 



Loud. 1888, p. 310. 



Tmaqo. — Male. Upperside dark violescent ochreous-brown, glossy ; exterior 

 border of both wings with an indistinct dusky lunular submarginal border to the 

 marginal line ; cilia brow'n alternated with cinereous-white. Foreioing with a very 

 indi-stinct dusky transverse discal oblique line, which is almost imperceptibly pale 

 bordered externally at its costal end ; an indistinct ochreous small costal spot before 

 the apex. Hindicing with two or three, sometimes four, submarginal small black 

 spots. Underside paler. Foreioing with a short ill-defined darker brown pale-bor- 

 dered streak across the cell, a more distinct transverse oblique discal slightly-undu- 

 lated dark brown line, which is externally bordered at its costal end with a narrow 

 lilacine- white streak, beyond which is a similar lilacine-white costal streak and three 

 subapical superposed very small indistinct ocelH, each with a white pupil ; marginal 

 line pale bordered. Hindicing crossed by three slender wavy interrupted glossy 

 lilacine-blue subbasal lines, and an entire irregular similar discal line, the latter 

 being broadly bordered externally with dark brown, followed by a submarginal series 

 of six ocelli, the upper one and the fifth the largest and very prominent, the sixth 

 duplex, each with a black centre, a white pupil, an ochreous ring, a dark brown 

 ring, and then a glossy Ulacine-blue outer ring, the white pupil of the upper second, 

 third, and fourth being blurred and blue-tinged ; marginal line bordered inwardly 

 by a prominent glossy lilacine-blue lunular line. 



Female. Upperside as in the male, except that the dusky lunular submarginal 

 border is more distinct, and on the forewing the two small ochreous costal spots also 

 more defined. Underside as in the male. Bo,h/ and legs beneath pale brownish- 

 ochreous, sides of palpi white. 



Expanse, ^2^, ? 2| inches. 



Dry-Season Brood (Plate 87, figs. 1, b, c, c? ? )• 

 Imago. — Male and female. Upperside of the same glossy dark ohvescent 

 ochreous-brown as in the wet-season brood. Both wings somewhat more scalloped. 



