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the thorax and abdomen. The period varied in my specimens from 

 five days and six hours to six days and eight hours. 



The caterpillar feeds on various grasses. That of Melanitis I always 

 captured on young growing rice. Both are strictly nocturnal. 



13. Mtcalesis (Samanta) malsara, Moore. Wet-season form, Kali, 

 Gori, and Sarju valleys, 2 — 4,000 feet, Aug. — Sept. Dry-season form 

 (lejjcha, Moore) Lower Kali valley, 3,000 feet, November, rare. My 

 specimens, both ocellate and non-ocellate, all have the white band below 

 very narrow, whereas the usual form of the species in Sikkim has it 

 ■wide. The dry-season form of this latter variety is rudisy Moore, which 

 I have taken abundantly in the Chittagong Hill Tracts. 



14. Mtcalesis (Samanta) heei, Moore. My two specimens from 

 Kapkot and Baghrihat, 2 — 5,000 feet, differ from a Sikkim specimen in 

 the Indian Museum, Calcutta, in having the band below almost obsolete. 

 One has only two ocelli on the forewing below, the other has two 

 additional smaller ones between them. Both have only two ocelli on 

 the hindwing above. I have also the dry-season form (one male, 

 Jhulaghat, 2,000 feet), Jacking the ocelli below, but otherwise similar, 

 especially in the prehensores. Those who do not accept the doctrine 

 of the seasonal variation of the Satyridce will consider this a new 

 species. In the same way nicotia, Hewitson, is represented in the dry 

 season by langii, de JSTiceville. 



15. Lethe europa, Fabr. Ranibagh at the foot of the hills, 1,000 

 feet. 



16. Lethe dtrta, Felder. Lower Himalayan tract, 3 — 6,000 feet. 



17. Lethe htrania, Koll. Kumaon generally, 3 — 7,OuO feet. My 

 specimens are somewhat transitional to dinarbas, being quite as dark, 

 and tinged with lilac in certain lights. These two probably form one 

 species. 



18. Lethe maitrta, de Niceville. Dhankuri, Khati in Western, 

 Sosa in Eastern, Kumaon, 7,000 — 11,000 feet. (Upper Himalayan 

 tract.) 



19. Lethe sidonis, Hew. Naini Tal, 6 — 7,000 feet, small specimens, 

 a large dark variety at Khati, N. W. Kumaon, 7 — 8,000 feet. 



20. Lethe vaivarta, n. sp., allied to nicetas and sidonis. Dhan- 

 kuri, Khati, Dwali, N. W. Kumaon ; near Khela, East Kumaon, 7 — 11,000 ' 

 feet. 



Shape of wings very much as in sidonis, except that the angle at 

 the upper median branch of the hindwing is obsolescent, those at the ends 

 of the lower median branches being more produced. Wings wider and 

 costa more bent than in nicetas and maitrya. Lustrous bi^own, cilia alter- 

 nately dark and pale. Two dull ochreous spots on costa of forewing 



