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shorter androconia having three very short fine straight hair-hke tips and truncate 

 base; beyond is a narrow submarginal dusky-brown lunular ordinary fascia, and before 

 the apex are two small indistinct pale brownish-ochreous costal spots. Eindwing 

 with an ill-defined transverse discal angular dusky-brown fascia, and a submarginal 

 lunular fascia, their intermediate area being paler ochreous-brown, and bearing 

 five round blackish slightly pale-ringed spots ; marginal line slender and bordered 

 by pale brownish-ochreous. Underside pale olivescent ochreous-brown, glossy. 

 Foretving with two broad darker-brown bands crossing the cell, with a bx-oad inter- 

 vening and a narrow outer glossy purplish- white baud; a jDOsteriorly decreasing 

 transverse discal dark-brown band with outer purplish-white border ; beyond 

 which are three, sometimes four, small superposed pale ocelli, and above them a 

 costal whitish intersected spot, followed by a brown submarginal fascia and a slender 

 marginal line. Hindiving crossed by three subbasal and a discal interrupted zigzag 

 glossy purplish-white line, the third subbasal line narrowly inwardly-bordered by a 

 dark-brown, and the discal line broadly outwardly-bordered by a dark-brown angular 

 fascia ; beyond which is a series of six prominent ocelli, the sixth being duplex, each 

 with a black centre and white pupil, and the upper four also blue-speckled, an ochreous 

 ring, a broader brown ring, and then an outer glossy purplish-white ring ; outer 

 marginal border dark-brown, traversed by a prominent slender glossy purplish-white 

 marginal line, which is dilated before the anal angle. 



Female. TJpperside paler. Forewing darkest basally ; with a broad transverse 

 dusky-black discal fascia, having a sharply-defined, wavy, sinuous outer edge ; the 

 outer third of the wing being pale ochreous-brown, and traversed by a darker sub- 

 marginal narrow fascia ; subapical costal spots as in male. Eindwing as in male, 

 with the spots placed on a pale ochreous-brown ground. Underside much more 

 ochreous in tint, paler than in male ; markings the same, except that on the forewing 

 the cell bands are outwardly-bordered with pale-ochreous, the transverse fascia 

 broader and paler, and the basal markings on the hindwing are pale-ochreous 

 bordered, instead of by purplish-white. Thorax clothed with glossy iridescent and 

 reddish hairs ; abdomen beneath, and legs pale brownish-ochreous, femora and tibia3 

 beneath whitish; collar and sides of palpi white; antennse bi'own above, anuulated 

 with white, with a long slender black subterminal club, tip reddish. 



Expanse, ^ 2f to 3f , ? of to 3f inches. 



Hajbjtat. — Sikkim ; Khasia Hills ; Upper Burma. 



DisTEiBUTiON AND Habits. — "Kot uncommon in Sikkim in the forest from 

 about 8000 feet, from the end of June on until November. The males are seen 

 singly, or in company with other Satyrinse, sitting on the path or low 

 herbage, and if disturbed generally fly up and settle on the trunk of a tree, 

 where they are difficult to distinguish among the dark moss. I took males in June 

 and July on Sincbul ; females are rarer, and fly but little, though sometimes taken 



