SATYRIN^. 13 



Genus NARMADA. 



Forewing elongated, triangular, costa slightly arched, apex somewhat acute, 

 exterior margin oblique, posterior margin in male slightly convex, with two sericeous 

 streaks between the median and submedian veins : hindwing triangular. 



Type, N. coreoides, Moore. 



NARMADA MONTANA (Plate 6, Fig. 1 $ ). 



Euplosa montana, Felder, Reise Novara Lep. ii. p. 330 (1867), $ . 

 Euplosa Lanhana, Moore, Annals and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1877, p. 44, $ . 

 Stictoplosa Lankana, Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. xiv. p. 302. 



Male and female. Upperside dark velvety olive-brown, paler externally : fore- 

 wing with a submarginal and marginal row of very small indistinct ochreous-white 

 spots; male with two elongated sericeovis streaks between the lower median and 

 submedian veins : hindwing with a submarginal and marginal row of ochreous-white 

 spots, the former oval from the anal angle and duplex anteriorly, the latter smaller 

 and round. Underside paler, marginal white spots as above, those on forewing more 

 prominent, both wings with a small white spot at end of the cell, and a contiguous 

 discal curved series beyond. Body blackish, thorax, head, palpi, and abdomen 

 beneath white spotted, forelegs white streaked beneath. 



Expanse 3 to 3|- inches. 



Captured at Rambodde, Galle, and Kandy. 



Subfamily SATYRIN^. 



Palpi generally compressed and fringed with long hair scales. 



Larva without spines, generally pubescent, head more or less bifid, tail bifid. 



" The butterflies of this subfamily are rather inactive, and fly near the ground 

 amongst grass and close to the margins of woods. Their movements, however, are 

 more lively in the early morning and evening during their amatory gambols. The 

 males of some of the species have a pair of curious pencils of hair which each lie 

 within a fold of the upper wing, and which are capable of being spread out radiately 

 during the insect's flight." {Note by Dr. Thwaites.) 



