SATYRINjE. 



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apical not very prominent black pale-bordered spots, and a marginal dusky pale- 

 bordered double lunular line. Underside paler: forewing with three transverse 

 discoidal wavy purple-grey bands, the middle band crossing the wing, an oblique 

 subapical ochreous-white band, an upper submarginal row of six purple-bordered 

 ocelli, the first and second slender and incompletely formed, a marginal purple- 

 bordered line: hindwing with three transverse basal purple-grey wavy bands, a 

 brown band outwardly angled between the subcostal and median vein, a submarginal 

 series of six ocelli in three purple-bordered encircled divisions, the upper or single 

 ocellus large with a distinct white pupil and minute dots, the next of three irregular 

 shaped ocelli minutely dotted with white, the fifth of regular form, the sixth with 

 double black centre, and both white dotted, a marginal purple-bordered lunular line. 

 Female. Upperside : forewing with two apical prominent spots and three oblique 

 transverse discal spots: hindwing with apical spots larger and more prominent. 

 Underside as in male, except that on the forewing the oblique subapical band is more 

 irregular and extends to posterior angle, and the lower ocellus is absent. Cilia 

 alternated with white. Body dark brown, palpi at sides, and legs beneath white 

 streaked. 



Expanse, $ 2|, ? 2^ inches. 



" Found in the neighbourhood of coffee-plantations south of Newera Eliya, at 

 about 3000 feet elevation. It appeared plentiful, except from January to March" 

 {Hutchison). 



Taken also at Kandy and Dickoya by Captain Wade. 



LETHE DRYPETES (Plate 8, Fig. \a,b). 



Debts Dri/petes, Hewitson, Exotic Butterflies, iii. Deb. pi. 2, f. 11, 12 (1863),?. 

 Debis embolima, Butler, Entom. Monthly Mag. iii. p. 77 (1866), $ . 



Male. Upperside dark olive-brown : forewing without markings : hindwing 

 with three submarginal very indistinct small black spots. Underside dark brown ; 

 both wings with a transverse subbasal wavy dark-bordered purple line : forewing 

 with an oblique transverse discal purple band, a submarginal curved row of five small 

 purple-bordered ocelli, the upper one indistinct, a marginal narrow pale wavy line : 

 hindwing with a transverse discal mediaUy-angled purple-bordered dark brown line, 

 a submarginal row of five purple-bordered ocelli, the first or upper one and the fifth 

 only regularly formed, the others oval and numerously white speckled, a marginal 

 distinct lunular purple line. Cilia brownish-ochreous. Female. Upperside fer- 

 ruginous olive-brown, externally dusky-brown : forewing with two prominent sub- 

 apical ochreous-white spots, an oblique transverse discal macular band extending to 

 lower median vein, submarginal small indistinct black spots : hindwing with four 



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