98 nimphalim;. 



111. Lethe jalaurida, de Niceville (Zophoessa), J. A. S. B. 1880, p. 245 ; 



M. 8r de N. (Zophoessa) Butt. Ind. i, 1883, p. 166, pi. 10, 

 fig. 19 tf ; Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, p. 320, pi. 8, fig-. 4 ; 

 Moore (Zophoessa), Lep. Ind. i, 1890-92, p. 296, pi. 92, figs. 2, 



Zophoessa elwesi, Moore, Lep. Ind. i, 1890-92, p. 298, pi. 92, fig. 3d . 



<$ 2 • Shape of wings as in L. baladeva. Upperside rich vandyke- 

 brown with a silky gloss and in certain lights a reddish -coppery 

 sheen ; cilia brown alternated with white. JFore wing with a 

 transverse broad bar in cell, and a discal zigzag macular band 

 ochraceous white, the cellular bar lined inwardly and outwardly, 

 and the discal band inwardly with diffuse dark brownish black ; a 

 short preapical bar or spot, ending below in three small spots, 

 ochraceous white ; a broad, inwardly diffuse, brownish-black sub- 

 terminal band. Hind wing : a postdiscal sinuous dusky-black 

 band, followed by a curved row of five round black spots superposed 

 on a broad pale band ; finally, a subterminal dark sublunular band. 

 Underside paler and more ochraceous, marked with dark brown. 

 Fore wing : the cellular discal and preapical ochraceous-white 

 bands as on the upperside, but clearer and more prominent ; the 

 preapical band with three or four superposed half obsolescent 

 small ocelli ; apex and termen of wing bright ochraceous. Hind 

 wing with a basal, a subbasal, a short median, and a discal trans- 

 verse zigzag white line, the last broadening above vein 3 into an 

 oblique broad band ; a postdiscal curved row of black ocelli, each 

 ocellus with a blue centre, an inner ochraceous and an outer brown 

 ring, followed by a subterminal irregular sinuous white and a 

 broader terminal ochraceous line. Antennae, head, thorax and 

 abdomen brown ; pale ochraceous beneath. 

 , Exp. S 2 54-58 mm. (2-1-2-3"). 

 Hab. The Himalayas from Kulu to Sikhim ; Western China. 

 Moore has separated the Eastern form as Z. elivesi, but a 

 series of specimens in the British Museum Collection from the 

 N.W. Himalayas and from Sikhim show little or no variation. 



112. Lethe moelleri, Elwes (Zophoessa), P. Z. 8. 1887, p. 445; Elwes, 



Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, p. 321, pi. 8, fig. 3; Moore (Zophoessa), 

 Lep. Ind. i, 1890-92, p. 298, pi. 92, figs. 4, 4 a, d • 



c? . Closely resembles L.jalaurida, but is a sufficiently distinct 

 and constant form. On the upperside, the fore w T ing lacks the 

 transverse, cellular, ochraceous-white band, while the dusky black 

 lining to the discal band is more angularly sinuous. On the 

 underside, the ocelli on the fore wing are entirely obsolescent, 

 the upper half of the basal portion of the hind wing is crossed by 

 two oblique broad bands of white bordered inwardly (the outer 

 band outwardly also) with dark brown, and the apical four ocelli 

 outwardly with white. 



Exp. 6 52-56 mm. (2-15-2-25"). 



Hob. Sikhim at 10,000 feet. 



I have not seen a 2 of this form. 



