284 ^ LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



SINCHULA VISRAVA (Plate 89, figs. 1, la, b, c, cJ ? ). 



Bebis Yisrava, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1865, p. 768, pi. 41, fig. 4, ^. 



Lethe Visrava, Butler, Catal. Satyr. Brit. Mus. p. 116 (1868). Marshall and de Ificeville, Butt, of 



India, etc. i. p. 161 (1883). Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1888, p. 310. 

 Debis Deliades, Hewitson, Ent. Monthly Mag. 1872, p. 84, ? . 

 LetJie Deliades, Marshall and de Niccville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 162, ? . 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dull violescent-brown ; cilia white. Foreiving with 

 a very faint trace of a zigzag transverse discal line, beyond which the outer border 

 is greyish tinged ; before the apex is an excurved series of four very small black 

 spots with white pupils ; marginal line inwardly bordered by a prominent white line. 

 Hindwing with an outer series of six blackish spots, the first, second, fourth and 

 fifth large, the two others small, the sixth duplex, each being bordered inwardly by 

 a pale half-ring, and all outwardly by a broad continuous white border with sinuous 

 outer edge, the slender black marginal line also inwardly .bordered by a prominent 

 white line and outwardly by brownish-white. Underside paler violescent-brown. 

 Foreioing with the posterior border more dusky-brown and defined outwardly by the 

 discal zigzag line ; three prominent well-formed small subapical brown ocelli, each 

 with a lilacine- white pupil and outer ring ; marginal line with a prominent lilacine- 

 white inner border, its outer border being brownish-ochreous. Hindiving crossed by 

 four prominent subbasal and a discal interrupted wavy glossy lilacine- white line ; six 

 veiy prominent ocelli, the upper one and the fifth being the largest, the sixth duplex, 

 each with a jet-black centre and white pupil, an ochreous ring, a dark brown ring, 

 and then an outer glossy lilacine-white ring, the outer portion of the latter ring on 

 the second, third, fourth and fifth being broad and sinuous ; a marginal slender 

 black line with prominent glossy lilacine-white inner border and ochreous outer 

 border. Body beneath pale brownish-cinereous ; legs brown above, cinereous 

 beneath ; tarsi blackish with whitish bands ; sides of palpi and collar white ; 

 antenna blackish, annulated with white, club reddish, band black. 



Female. Upperside white. Cilia white. Forewing with the basal half of the 

 costal border, including the cell and a little beyond it, and also a continuous trian- 

 gular spot at the basal interspace of the two upper median veinlets dark rufous- 

 brown ; the apical border broadly and obliquely, with the outer border including a 

 rounded spot near the posterior angle, also rufous-brown ; curving before the apex is 

 a small tridentate white spot and two lower minute black ocelli dotted with white, 

 beyond which is a slender pale submarginal line. Hindwing with an outer series of 

 seven dark rufous-brown blind ocellated spots, the upper first, second, fourth and 

 fifth large, the others small ; a submarginal interrupted lunular brown line ; the 

 marginal line with ochreous-yellow outer border. Underside white ; with similar 

 brown markings as on upperside, except that these are much less distinctly defined ; 



