84 NYMPHALID2E. 



pale, anteriorly lilacine, irregularly curved discal fascia bordered 

 on both sides by brown lines, followed by a strongly carved 

 postdiscal series of black ocelli, each ocellus white-centred, with 

 an inner ochraceous, intermediate brown and outer lilacine ring. 

 Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen greyish brown ; thorax and 

 abdomen beneath paler. 



Exp. 2 80 mm. (3-2"). 



Hob. Recorded only as yet from Margherita in Assam. 



85. Lethe verma, Kollar (Satyrus), HiigeVs Kaschmir, iv, 1844, 



p. 447, pi. 16, figs. 1, 2 ; M. $ de N. Butt, hid. i, 1883, p. 158, 

 pi. 10, fig. 23 S '• Moore (Tansima), Lep. hid. i, 1890-92, p. 273, 

 pi. 86, figs. 3, 3 a, 3 b, tf $ . 



6 2 • Upperside brown. Tore wing with a broad, even, oblique, 



white discal band, terminating above apex of vein 2 near termen ; 



in the 2 continued below vein 2. Hind wing with two or 

 three postdiscal small, obscure, white- 

 centred black ocelli; both fore and 

 hind wing with faintly marked, pale 

 subterminal and terminal lines. Under- 

 side : ground-colour similar. Fore wing 

 with the white, oblique band as on the 

 upperside, followed by two white-centred, 

 ochraceous-ringed, black ocelli. Hind 

 wing with two very irregular, lilacine, 

 sinuous, transverse lines and a strongly 

 arched postdiscal series of white - 

 centred black ocelli, each encircled with 



Fig. 21.— LethTverma, tf. an ochraceous, a brown, and a silvery 

 Underside. ring. Fore and hind wings with sub- 



terminal and terminal pale ochraceous 



lines. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen brown; antennae 



ochraceous at apex. 



Exp. s 2 56-64 mm. (2-3-2-5"). 



Hob. The Himalayas from Kashmir to Sikhim ; Assam ; Burma ; 



Tenasserim. 



86. Lethe masoni, Elwes (Debis (Tansima)), P. Z. S. 1882, p. 405, pi. 25. 



fig. 2 ; M. 4- de N. Butt. hid. i, 1883, p. 159 ; Moore (Chonala), 

 Lep. Ind. ii, 1893-96, p. 15, pi. 97, figs. 2, 2 a, 2 b, J $ . 



(S 2 • Closely resembles L. verma, but on the upperside the 

 ground-colour is generally darker, the discal oblique white band 

 on fore wing slightly curved not straight ; there is a prominent 

 preapical white spot with a black ocellus below and a white speck 

 above it ; the cilia are brown. Hind wing : apex narrowly 

 and the cilia down to vein 2 white, remainder of the cilia brown. 

 Underside similar to upperside, fore wing with pale slender sub- 

 terminal and terminal lines. Hind wing: basal area irrorated 

 with greyish-white scales and crossed by two slender, broken, dark 

 brown lines : a postdiscal curved series of rather large, more or 



