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inwardly bordered by a very slender glossy lilacine-blue line tlirougbout its length. 

 Body, forelegs and femora beneath clothed with glossy greenish and reddish hairs ; 

 legs ochreous-brown above ; palpi clothed with blackish hairs, sides whitish streaked ; 

 collar white; antennae blackish above, ochreous-red beneath, subterminal band black. 

 Female unknown. 



Expanse, c? 2 to 2\ inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim. 



Distribution. — Mr. L. de Niceville (Butt. Ind. 159) records " two specimens of 

 this species from Sikkim." According to Mr. J. H. Elwes (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1888, 315) 

 " this species has hitherto only been found on Tendong, in Native Sikkim, by Mr. 

 Otto Moller's native collectors at about 7000 feet, in the rainy season. The female 

 remains unknown. In 1886 it was taken as late as November." 



Our illustrations of this species on Plate No. 88, figs. 3, 3a, represent the male 

 from a specimen kindly lent for this purpose by Mr. H. J. Elwes. 



SINCHULA MAITRYA (Plate 88, figs. 1, la, (J ? ). 



Lethe Maitrya, de Mceville, Journ. Asiatic. Soc. Bengal, 1880, p. 245, ^ . Marshall and de Niceville, 

 Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 160, pi. x. fig. 20, c? (1883). Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lend. 1888, 

 p. 310. 



Imago.— Male. Upperside dark olivescent ochreous-brown, with a golden- 

 bi'onzy gloss when fresh ; cilia alternated with ochreous-white. Forewing crossed 

 by a dusky brown discal fascia, which is anteriorly pale-ochreous macularly-bordered, 

 the fascia being almost erect posteriorly and curved at its costal end ; before the 

 apex is a small ochreous oblique costal spot, intersected by the subcostals. Eind- 

 loing with three, or four, small dusky black submarginal spots. Underside with the 

 forewing somewhat paler olivescent-brown ; the hindwing being darker brown. 

 Forewing with a pale olivescent-ochreous curved bar across middle of the cell, a 

 transverse discal anteriorly-curved almost macular fascia bordering the discal line ; 

 beyond is a more whitish costal descending streak and three lower minute obsoles- 

 cent ocelli ; and then a narrow ochreous submarginal fascia bordering the marginal 

 line. Hindwing crossed by three interrupted wavy subbasal and an entire discal 

 glossy lilacine-white line, the latter outwardly bordered by a broad darker 

 brown shade; a submarginal series of six uniformly-sized ill-defined blurred 

 olivescent-brown ocelli, the sixth duplex, each with a large blurred lilacine- 

 speckled centre and white pupil, an indistinct brown ring and a narrow glossy 

 lilacine outer ring ; a slender submarginal glossy lilacine line ending in a large 

 triangular anal spot. 



Female. Upperside somewhat paler ; cilia alternated with pale ochreous. Fore- 

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