SATYRIN^. 19 



raised scales between the lower median and submedian veins ; lower median vein 

 much curved. 



Tyjpe, H. Sihala. 



HANIPHA SIHALA (Plate 8, Fig. 2 a, b). 

 Lethe Sihala, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1872, p. 555. 



Male. Upperside dark olive-brown : fore wing with two very indistinct or 

 obsolete dusky-white apical spots, and a longitudinal tuft of long blackish-brown 

 hairs between lower median and submedian vein : hindwing with a submarginal 

 series of indistinct black spots. Underside, basal area dark brown, apical area pale 

 brown, being divided on the forewing by an oblique discal chalybeate-purple streak, 

 and on the hindwing by a discal medially-angled dark brown line ; a submarginal 

 series of four very indistinct ocelli on forewing formed by a central black dot and two 

 chalybeate rings ; a submarginal series of six larger ocelli on hindwing formed by a 

 black spot with a single white central dot and fulvous outer ring, each being 

 encircled by purple border; both wings with a dark brown purple-bordered subbasal 

 transverse line. Female. Upperside brown, basal area paler : forewing with a broad 

 oblique discal white band and a terminal spot near posterior angle ; a small white 

 apical spot and two indistinct streaks below it ; an indistinct series of blackish 

 submarginal spots : hindwing with a submarginal series of five black spots, the 

 middle spot very small, the upper spots with broad irregular whitish-brown borders, 

 the two lower with pale brown rings and a white central dot. Underside brown at 

 base, outer borders paler ; forewing with oblique band as above and five submarginal 

 spots : hindwing as in male : subbasal transverse line purple-bordered, and the 

 irregular medial line with whitish-brown outer border. 



Expanse, $ 2\, 2 2|- inches. 



" Eare and very local. Observed only in two places in forest land near Newera 

 Eliya. Habits similar to Lethe Dry petes" {Hutchison). 



The female of this species is much like L. Dynsate, but it differs in having a 

 narrower oblique discal band and more defined subapical white and black spots on 

 the forewing, and the hindwing has paler interspaces between the outer series of 

 spots. The underside also diS'ers in the forewing having five submarginal ringlet 

 spots instead of four, and the hindwing has all the spots smaller, the costal spot and 

 the second anal being one-third less in size. 



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