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band from the costa to the submedian nervure, anteriorly broad and 

 touching the disco-cellular nervules inwardly, posteriorly narrow, be- 

 tween the first median nervule and the submedian nervure inwardly 

 oblique ; a short subapical pale ochreous bar within the submarginal 

 fascia reaching from the costa to the upper discoidal nervule. Hindwing 

 with an indistinct irregular discal dark brown fascia; beyond which are 

 five round dark brown spots decreasing in size from anteriorly back- 

 wards. Underside, both wings shining pale ochreous, with the markings 

 darker ochreous. Forewing has the two discoidal bars as on the upper- 

 side, the inner one broad, the outer one narrow, the space between them 

 yellow ; the discal fascia is broader and more prominent than above, its 

 outer edge sharply defined ; the discal area beyond is yellow becoming 

 darker till it is almost lost in the submarginal fascia; the subapical 

 spots as on the upperside three in number and white ; the margin is some- 

 what broadly pale, bisected by a narrow straight brown line. Hindwing 

 has a basal irregular dark fascia outwardly defined by a narrow yellow 

 line ; beyond which is a dark line from the costa to the submedian ner- 

 vure where it ends between the points of origin of the first and second 

 median nervules ; a dark fusiform bar defines the disco-cellular nervules ; 

 a broad highly irregular discal fascia from the costa to the abdominal 

 margin ; a submarginal series of six black ocelli with white pupils, 

 yellow iris, outer dark ring, with an outermost pale violet ring, the 

 anal ocellus twinned, all the ocelli of nearly equal size, the first and 

 fifth slightly larger than the others ; the margin bears a somewhat 

 broad ochreous line, defined on both sides by a dark brown thread, 

 inwardly again with a pale violet line, somewhat dilated at the anal 

 angle. Cilia cinereous throughout. 



In India this species is nearest allied to L. tristigmata, Elwes, also 

 from Sikkim, but it is smaller, the " male-mark " on the upperside of 

 the forewing on the disc is barely traceable, on the underside of that 

 wing the four (sometimes five) discal pale violet spots are wanting 

 being replaced by a short subapical bar, with some other minor 

 differences. It is still nearer to L. ocellata, Ponjade,* from Mou-Pin in 

 Eastern Thibet, and Omei-shan and Pu-tsu-fong in "Western China, 

 of which L. simulans, Leech, is a synonym, from which it appears to 

 differ on the upperside of the forewing in the presence of the short 

 subapical pale bar ; the ground-colour of the underside is pale ochreous 

 instead of " greyish-brown," and the discal dark bands of the hind- 

 wing seem also to be somewhat differently placed. It is also apparently 



* Debts ocellata, Poujade, Bull. Soc. Ent. France, sixth series, vol. v, p. x 

 (1885); Zethe ocellata, Leech, Butt, from China, Japan, and Corea, p. 34, pi. iii, 

 fig. 3, male (1892J. 



