90 NYMPHALID^. 



Exp. <5 2 62-71 mm. (2'43-2'83''). 



Hab. Bhutan. 



Var. peguana, Moore, differs in the <5 being a rich claret- 

 brown above, the $ a somewhat paler brown ; the transverse 

 lines crossing the wings on the underside are still more sinuous 

 than in gulnihal, the two crossing the cell being parallel and not 

 inclined towards each other posteriorly. The white discal spots 

 on fore wing in 2 absent or only indicated. 



97. Lethe latiaris, Hewitson (Debis), Exot. Butt, iii, 1863, p. 74, Debis, 

 pi. 1, fig. 4 2 ; Af • # d e &• B ut t- Ind. 1, 1883, p. 140 ; Moore 

 (Rangbia), Lep. Ind. i, 1890-92, p. 236, pi. 76, figs. 3, 3 a, 3 b, <$ $ . 



S . Hind wing only dentate, not caudate at apex of vein 4. 

 Upper side dark vandyke-brown ; cilia ochraceous white ; in some 

 specimens the subterminal ocelli on the underside of the hind 

 wing showing through on the upperside. Underside paler ; fore 

 wing with the following markings — two transverse dark lines 

 across the cell, the inner continued to vein 1, an oblique discal 

 line bordered outwardly by faint lilacine, followed by a postdiscal 

 series of four, partially obsolescent, brown-centred and brown- 

 ringed small pale ocelli, the series bordered inwardly and out- 

 wardly by faint dark transverse bands. Hind wing : a subbasal 

 straight and a discal sinuous umber-brown narrow band, a curved 

 series of six ocelli, similar to the ocelli on fore wing but pupilled 

 with white ; both fore and hind wing with subterminal and 

 terminal slender umber-brown lines, the discocellulars defined 

 with brown. — $ similar, but on the upperside of fore wing with 

 an ochraceous preapical spot, and on the underside a broad lilacine 

 border to the oblique discal band, this showing through on the 

 upperside as a more or less distinct ochraceous line. Antenna) 

 ochraceous annulated with white ; head, thorax and abdomen 

 brown, paler beneath ; the thorax with dark bluish-green pubes- 

 cence above. Male sex-marks as in L. scanda. 



Exp. S 2 66-70 mm. (2-65-2-8"). 



Hab. Sikhim ; Assam ; Burma ; Tenasserim. 



98. Lethe minerva (PI. II, fig. 14), Fabr. (Papilio) Syst. Ent. 1775 

 p. 493, 2 \M.8fdeN. Butt. Ind. i, 1883, p. 140 ; Moore (Neuietis) 

 Lep. Ind. i, 1890-92, p. 237, pi. 77, figs. 1, 1 a, 1 b, J $ . 



S . Costa of fore wing strongly curved towards apex ; 

 S 2 ? termen of hind wing angulate at apex of vein 4. $ . Upper- 

 side brown ; fore wing anteriorly with an ochraceous tint darkening 

 towards the tornus. Hind wing posteriorly, from apex of cell to 

 termen and up to vein 1, ochraceous red; abdominal fold brown ; 

 a curved series of five dark brown spots, the apical two large and 

 diffuse, and a subterminal dark line. Underside pale ochraceous 

 brown ; fore and hind wings crossed by highly irregular and more 

 or less broken basal and discal lines of ochraceous red, the 

 latter obsolescent on the fore wing ; terminal margins of wings 



