308 LEPIDOPTEEA INDIOA. 



PATALA BHIMA (Plate 94, figs. 5, 5a, (J ? ). 



Neope Bhima, Marshall, Joum. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, 1880, p. 246. Marshall andde Niceville, Butt. 



of India, etc. i. p. 172, pi. xi. fig. 26, ? (1883). Manders, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1890, p. 518. 

 Neope Muirheadi, var. Bhima, Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1891, p. 266. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside pale olivescent ochreous-brown ; marginal line indis- 

 tinctly pale bordered ; cilia pale ochreous-wliite. Forewing with a broad transverse 

 discal indistinctly-defined darker glandular fascia clothed with a few long narrow 

 scales with acute bidentate or tridentate tips, and very numerously interspersed long 

 slender androconia with lengthened truncated-base and fine hair-like tasselled-tip, 

 and also a few fine hairs ; beyond which is an outer discal series of pale olivescent- 

 yellow elongated spots situated between the veins, the one between the radials and 

 also that between the upper medians enclosing an oval black spot. Hindtving with 

 a series of four prominent black oval spots, with a pale olivescent-yellow outer ring, 

 above which is a subapical small incipient similar spot, and at the anal angle an 

 indistinct duplex spot. Underside ochreous-grey speckled with brownish-ochreous 

 scales. Foretuing with three sinuous brown bars crossing the cell, the basal one 

 being narrow, the next broad and catenulate, the outer one broad and zigzag ; cross- 

 ing the discocellulars are two small brown spots ; beyond is a broad transverse 

 discal brown band, which is traversed by a very slender sinuous inner pale hne, its 

 outer edge being recurved and broadly bordered by pale ochreous-grey ; following 

 is a series of four prominent ocelH, each with large black centre and white pupil, an 

 ochreous-yellow ring, and then a brown bordering extending laterally to the costa, 

 beyond which is a brown submarginal and marginal line with pale ochreous-grey 

 borders. Hindwing with a basal transverse series of three small brown rings, two 

 subbasal pale-bordered brown zigzag interrupted bands, and a similar recurved 

 discal continuous band, the latter with a prominent pale ochreous-grey oiiter border, 

 followed by a recurved series of eight prominent oceUi, the seventh and eighth being 

 conjoined but both well developed, each with a black centre and white pupil, an 

 ochreous-yellow ring and an outer dark-brown ring, all again outwardly bordered by 

 brown speckles ; marginal lines dark-brown, sinuous. Body beneath pale ochreous- 

 grey ; legs above brown, ochreous-grey beneath ; collar and sides of palpi ochreous- 

 white ; antennge brown with blackish subterminal band and reddish-ochreous tip. 



Female. Upperside pale olivescent ochreous-brown. Forewing with an ill- 

 defined narrow pale brownish-ochreous transverse discal recurved fascia, an outer 

 discal row of four, sometimes with five, prominent black oval spots, the upper 

 one being situated between the radials, the lowest, when present, between the 

 lower median and submedian vein, the upper second generally small and imper- 

 fectly developed, the upper first, the third and fourth large and of neai'ly equal size ; 



