78 NYMPHALID^. 



latter. Underside very dark blackish brown ; the wings crossed 



subbasally by a slender lilacine-white 

 straight line, followed on fore wing by 

 an oblique short white discal fascia, and 

 on both fore and hind wing by a post- 

 discal series of large black ocelli and a 

 terminal, somewhat ochraceous, narrow 

 band bordered on the inner side by a 

 more or less silvery purple line. The 

 series on both fore and hind wing- 

 margined inwardly and outwardly by 

 silvery purple lunular lines, on the 

 fore wing curved inwards, on the hind 

 wing curved outwards ; the ocelli on 

 fore wing confluent, black, non-pupilled, 

 on the hind wing black with disintegrate 

 Fig. 20.— Lethe euro pa, J. silvery-speckled irregular centres on a 

 brown ground. — 2 . Similar : fore wing- 

 on upperside with an oblique broad white discal band, hind wing 

 with a postdiscal incomplete series of black spots. Underside 

 similar to the underside in the 6 , markings and ocelli larger. 

 Exp. 6 2 62-76 mm. (2-45-3"). 



Hab. The plains of Northern India ; lower hills of the Himalayas : 

 Assam ; Burma ; Tenasserim ; extending to China and the Malay 

 Peninsula. 



Larva. Green, paler beneath, fusiform ; head with a single short 



erect horn ; body attenuated suddenly from the 11th segment. 



Pupa. Uniform pale green, stout, smooth, quite regular, except 



the head-case which is semidetached, broad and angular, with two 



sharp points in front (after Davidson Sf Aitken). 



77. Lethe tanmna, de Niceville, P. Z. S. 1887, p. 449, pi. 39, fig. 6 2 ; 

 Moore, Lep. 2nd. ii, 1893-96, p. 256, pi. 82, fig. 2 $ . 



2 • " Upperside dull dark fulvous. Fore iving with the apical 

 half fuscous, bearing two pure white spots below the costa, placed 

 midway between the apex and the median ochreous band, the 

 upper of the two spots much the smaller, and divided into two 

 portions by the fourth subcostal nervule ; below these spots in the 

 upper discoidal interspace is an obscure oval black spot ; near the 

 margin are four bright ochreous lunules placed between the veins 

 from the lower discoidal nervule to the inner angle, beyond these 

 lunules in each interspace is a fine ochreous line across the disc 

 of the wing ; from the middle of the costa to near the inner angle 

 is a broad bright ochreous band, its inner edge nearly straight 

 and even, its outer edge produced into points between the veins, 

 the lower portion of the band composed of tw 7 o spots (the lower 

 one very small) in the submedian interspace. Hind wing with 

 the ocelli of the underside more or less showing through by 

 transparency; a series of bright ochreous lunules with inner dark 



