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tving crossed by a pale oclireous excTirved discal narrow macular band, tlie five 

 lower portions being dentate and less defined ; a prominent costal spot and two 

 lower less-defined denticulate marks. Hindiving with three upper submarginal 

 dusky black spots. Underside brighter coloured ; the forewing more olivescent and 

 the hind wing more ochreous in tint. Foreiving with a prominent curved pale olives- 

 cent-ochreous bar within the cell, transverse discal macular band, paler subapical 

 descending streak and lower white dots. Hindiving with the basal area between the 

 transverse lilacine lines speckled with lilacine scales, the outer bordering shade 

 to the discal line being distinct ; the ocelli as in male ; marginal line ochreous and 

 inwardly bordered by the slender glossy lilacine line and its anal triangular spot. 

 Body beneath, and legs pale brownish-ochreous ; collar white ; sides of palpi 

 ochreous-white ; antennae reddish-ochreous, with black subterminal band. 



Expanse, * 2 to 2^, ? 2|- to 2f inches. 



Habitat. — N.-W. and E. Himalayas; Bhotan. 



DiSTBiBUTioN. — In the N.-TV". Himalayas, Mr. L. de Niceville (Butt. Ind. 161) 

 " obtained the male on the Jalouri Pass, at about 8000 feet elevation, in July ; and in 

 Colonel A. M. Lang's collection there is a male from Narkunda on the Hindustan 

 and Tibet Eoad, taken in July." Mr. W. Doherty (J. A. S. Beng. 1886, 115) re- 

 cords it from " Dhankuri and Khati in Western Kumaon, and Sosa in Eastern 

 Kumaon, at 7000 or 11,000 feet." In Sikkim, " a male and two females were taken 

 by the late Dr. T. C. Jerdon, these Sikkim specimens being somewhat smaller than 

 those from the N.-W. Himalayas " (Butt. Ind. 161). Mr. H. J. Blwes (Tr. Ent. Soc. 

 1888, 316) says " this species is very abundant on Tonglo and along the Singalelah 

 Range between Sikkim and Nepal, from 9000 to 12,000 feet, in July and August, 

 where it keeps company with Zo])hoessa Jalourida, as in the north-west. I also 

 found it on the Eishilah, in British Bhotan, at 10,000 feet, and my native collectors 

 brought it in great numbers from Bhotan in 1884. L. Maitrya is a foi'est-haunting 

 insect, and has exactly the same habits as Z. Jalourida. The female is very rare, 

 and I have only procured one of the sex." 



SINCHULA NICETAS (Plate 88, figs. 4, 4a, b, c,cJ ?). 



Delis Niceias, Hewitsoii, Exotic Butt. iii. p. 78 ; Debts pi. 3, figs. 17, IS (1863), ? . 

 Lethe Nicetas, Butler, Catal. Satyr. Brit. Mus. p. 116 (1868). Marshall and de Niocville, Butt, 

 of India, etc. i. p. 161 (1883). Elwes, Tr. Ent. Soc. Lend. 1888, p. 310. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark olivescent ochreous-brown, glossy ; cilia alter- 

 nated with pale cinereous. Foreioing crossed by an oblique discal indistinct dusky 

 waved-fascia, which is broadest anteriorly and does not extend beyond the lower 

 median veinlet, and is indistinctly macularly-bordered externally with ochreous ; 

 beyond is a small oblique ochreous costal spot before the apex. Hindiving with five 



