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Forewing with two similar pale ochreous costal spots. Bindwlng with larger sub- 

 marginal blackish spots ; those of the female with a pale ceutre. Underside darker 

 than in the wet-season brood. Forewing with the cell streak paler bordered, the 

 transverse oblique discal line somewhat posteriorly angulated, more defined, and with 

 more prominent pale lilacine-white external costal border, the outer pale descending 

 costal spot also distinct, and the four subapical superposed ocellate spots larger and 

 with blurred lilacine-blue centres. Hindwing with similar basal glossy lilacine-blue 

 wavy lines, and marginal lunular line, the submarginal ocelli being of more uniform 

 size, especially those of the female, and in both sexes the upper five Lave entirely 

 blurred lilacine-blue centres, the lower duplex ocellus only being perfect. 



Expanse, <S 2-| , ? 2f inches. 



Habitat. — B. Himalayas, Sikkim ; Assam ; Khasia Hills ; Sylhet. 



The dry-season form of 8. Sidonu above described is distinguishable from the 

 same form of 8. Vaivarta, on the upperside, by its general darker colour, the dusky 

 lunular submarginal border on both wings, and somewhat larger spots on the hind- 

 wine:. On the underside both sexes are also much darker coloured ; the forewing- 

 having a lilacine anterior border to the discal line, this border being much less 

 defined in both sexes, the subapical ocelli are also larger and with blurred lilacine 

 centres ; the hindwing has all the ocelli, except the lower duplex one, with large 

 blurred lilacine-blue centres. 



Distribution and Habits. — In Sikkim, at from 5000 to 7000 fe^t elevation, Mr. 

 L. de Niceville took it most commonly in roads through forests, in October, and the 

 late " Mr. Cock took it at Shillong in July " (Butt. India, 160). Specimens in the 

 late Mr. W. S. Atkinson's collection were labelled Darjiling and Cherra. According 

 to Mr. H. J. Elwes (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1888, 316) this is " the commonest species of 

 Lethe in Sikkim in the zone of forest from -tOOO to 8000 feet, between April and 

 November, where it is constantly seen flitting along the forest paths, and settling 

 both on the ground and on low vegetation. The female seems much rarer, and 

 probably flies but little. Sikkim specimens show the markings of the hindwing 

 below of a much more distinct and brilliant violet than those from Mandi in the 

 N.-W. Himalayas [wet-season brood of Vaivarta], and are rather smaller and less 

 brilliant than those I took in the Khasias." Specimens of both sexes obtained 

 by Mr. Otto MoUer in Bhotan, in August, are in Mr. J. H. Leech's collection. 

 Specimens from the Khasia Hills are in the collection of Colonel C. Swinhoe. 



Of the illustrations of this species on our Plate N). 87, figs. 1, la, i^epi-eseut 

 the male of the wet-season brood, and figs. 1, b, c, the male and female of the dry. 

 season brood. 



