306 LEPIDOPTERA IJIfDICA. 



tip. Eindwing shorter and more triangular in form, exterior margin less angulated. 

 Upper and undersides dissimilar in markings. 

 Type. — P. Yama. 



PATALA YAMA (Plate 94, fig. 3, (J). 



Zophoessa Yama, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. Company, i. p. 221 (1857), (S ? . Butler, Catal. 

 Satyr. Brit. Mus. p. 109 (1868). Marshall and de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 169 (1883). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside olivescent oclireous-brown, somewhat senescent and 

 glossy in certain lights ; cilia ochreous-white. Forewing with an indistinctly per- 

 ceptible transverse short broad lower-discal dusky-cinereous glandular fascia, which 

 is clothed with extremely delicate long narrow ribbed-scales with bidentate or 

 tridentate tips, and several interspersed long slender androconia with truncated- 

 bulbous base and fine hair-like tasselled-tip, and also with a few long fine hairs ; 

 beyond which are three very indistinct dusky-brown superposed subapical spots, 

 and a similar indistinct dusky-brown broad marginal border ; on the costa before 

 the apex ai'e two small ochreous-white intersected spots. Eindwing with an ill- 

 defined discal-series of five dusky-brown pale-bordered rounded spots, and a broad 

 dusky-brown marginal border. Underside paler. Forewing with four dark-brown 

 bars with intervening ochreous-white bars crossing the cell from the costa ; a dark- 

 brown transverse-discal sinuous-bordered wavy band, a series of five brown ocelli 

 (the upper one being obsolescent) each with a minute white pupil, a pale olivescent- 

 ochreous ring, and then a narrow brown outer ring; followed by a brown sub- 

 marginal fascia and a slender straight marginal line ; the intervening area between 

 the discal and submarginal fascia being pale olivescent-ochreous and brown speckled, 

 with the two costal whitish spots before the apex, as on upperside. Eindwing 

 crossed by two irregular ochreous-white bordered dark-brown short subbasal broken 

 bands from the costa, a similar-coloured transverse discal irregular zigzag band, 

 followed by a series of seven prominent black ocelli, the seventh being duplex, each 

 with a white pupil, dark-ochreous ring, and then a dark-brown ring ; beyond these 

 is an interrupted dark-brown submarginal fascia, and a slender marginal line, both 

 of which are posteriorly pale-ochi'eous bordered from the upper median vein ; the 

 subbasal intervening spaces thickly speckled with pale-ochreous scales, and the area 

 bordering the ocelli with purplish-ochreous scales. 



Female. Upperside similar to the male, except that on the forewing there is 

 an indistinctly-defined transverse nearly-erect narrow dusky-brown fascia. Under- 

 side as in the male ; sometimes the forewing has an additional or lower ocellus 

 between the median and submedian vein. Body beneath pale ochreous-brown ; fore- 

 legs, middle and hind femora beneath pale-ochreous ; collar, and sides of palpi 

 ochreous-white ; antenna reddish-ochreous, with blackish terminal band. 



