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borders placed near the outer margin between the veins, with a 

 darker ochreous line beyond. Underside dull brown. Fore winy 

 with a whitish subbasal line crossing the middle of the discoidal 

 cell from the subcostal to the submedian nervure ; the broad 

 discal band as above, but with its edges more even and wider at its 

 lower end ; beyond it are four ill-shaped ocelli with black pupils 

 dotted with white, a pale violet ring, then a brown ring and an 

 outer pale violet ring ; the margin marked much as above. Hind 

 wing with a subbasal line in continuation of that on the fore wing- 

 not reaching the abdominal margin ; a discal series of ocelli 

 placed on a violet band which more or less follows their outline ; 

 the upper ocellus very large, its centre deep black dotted with 

 white, then a broad rich ochreous ring, outwardly defined with a 

 fuscous ring ; the next largest ocellus is in the first median inter- 

 space, with two very small equal-sized ocelli in the interspaces 

 above and below it, and two very small and indistinct ocelli divided 

 by the discoidal nervule ; the bright ochreous lunules on the 

 margin of the upperside white, almost silvery on the underside." 

 (de Niceville.) 



Exp. " 2 2J inches " (72 mm.). 



Hob. Little Nicobar. 



78. Lethe drypetis (PL II, fig. 16), Hewitson (Debis), Ex. Butt. 

 iii, 1863, p. 76, Debis, pi. 2, figs. 11, 12, 2 ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. i, 

 1880, p. 17, pi. 8, figs. 1, 1 a, 1 b, S 2 » P L 21 0, fi 8' s - 5 ; 5 a > lar 'va & 

 pupa; M. § de N. Butt. Ind. i, 1883, p. 150 ; Moore, Lep. Ind. i, 

 1890-92, p. 257, pi. 83, figs. 1, 1 a~\ d, J 2 , ] arva & pupa. 

 Lethe todara, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 305 ; M. $ de N. 

 Butt. Ind. i, 1883, p. 151. 



S . Upperside very dark vandyke-brown ; fore wing uniform ; 

 hind wing with a postdiscal series of three or four blind black 

 ocellar spots. Underside brown ; fore wing below vein 2 and 

 terminal margin paler, a broad band across the cell, the wing 

 medially and at apex suffused with lilac, bearing an incurved 

 postdiscal series of five blind black ocelli. Hind wing : subbasal 

 and discal narrow transverse lilac bands, the former sinuous, the 

 latter angulated on vein 4, and an arched postdiscal series of 

 black fulvous-ringed ocelli, some with disintegrate centres ; the 

 wing medially suffused with lilac, the ocelli with lilacine lunules 

 on both sides. Fore and hind wings with slender lilacine subter- 

 minal and broader ochraceous terminal lines. — 2 • Similar, ground- 

 colour paler ; a broad oblique white discal bar and two white 

 preapical spots on the upperside of the fore wing ; a large, 

 rectangular, black subterminal mark in interspaces and a white 

 spot above and below it, on the upperside of the hind wing. 

 Underside similar to the underside in the <S , all the markings 

 more prominent, the lilac, ochraceous and brown shades paler ; the 

 broad discal bar on fore wing, as on the upperside, joined by a 

 nearly vertical lilacine white band bearing the series of ocelli. 



