ERITES. 153 



concave line ; veins 4, 5 and 6 parallel, 10 and 11 from before 

 apex of cell, 12 inflated at base, subcostal and median normal. 

 Hind wing pear-shaped, costa and dorsum nearly straight ; termen 

 deeply scalloped, more or less produced at apex of vein 4, cell 

 about half length of wing ; discocellulars oblique, middle concave ; 

 vein 3 from before apex of cell, vein 6 closer to 7 than to 5. 

 Antennae slender, about half length of fore wing, club very 

 gradual ; palpi erect, fringed with long porrect hairs anteriorly, 

 third joint moderately loug ; eyes naked ; intermediate femora 

 longer than tibiae, scaled not hairy. 



The forms of Writes all have more or less transparent delicate 

 wings. 



Key to the forms of Erites. 



a. Apex of fore wing rounded. 



a . Fore wing : all the ocelli of underside show- 

 ing through by transparency on upperside. 



Underside ground-colour rich purplish .... E. argentina, p. 153. 

 //. Fore wing : only the large ocellus on under- 

 side at tornus showing through by trans- 

 parency on upperside. Underside ground- 

 colour pale grey or pale ochraceous. 

 a 1 . Ochraceous rings surrounding postdiscal 

 series of black spots on upperside of hind 



wing narrow, well separated E. anyularis, p. 154. 



b 2 . Ochraceous rings surrounding postdiscal 

 series of black spots on upperside of hind 

 wing broad, confluent E. rotundata, p. 154. 



b. Apex of fore wing truncate, termen j ust below 



truncation angulate E. falcipennis, p. 155. 



184. Erites argentina, Butler, Cat. Satyr. Brit. Mus. 1868, p. 188, 

 pi. 5, fig. 8 2 ; Moore, Lep. Ind. ii, 1893-96, p. 113, pi. 121, 

 figs. I, I a, lb, tf 2 • 



d 1 2 - Upperside ferruginous brown, the median and discal 

 transverse bands and the ocelli on the underside of both fore and 

 hind wing showing through by transparency ; a subtornal 

 ochraceous-ringed black ocellus in interspace 2 and pale sinuous, 

 slender, subterminal and terminal lines on the hind wing being the 

 only definite markings. The ocellar ring in the $ broader than 

 in the <5 • Underside rich purplish ; basal half of both fore aud 

 hind wing irrorated with short, transverse, delicate, brown strise 

 and crossed by broad transverse dark bands as follows — an obscure 

 short band at extreme base of wings, a median and a discal band ; 

 the latter two with a stripe of ochraceous down the middle, 

 in 2 on both fore and hind wing, in J only on the hind wing. 

 In both sexes the discal dark band strongly angulated outwards on 

 vein 4 of the hind wing and there bordered externally with 

 ochraceous. Beyond on the fore wing there is an anterior series, 

 margined with dark brown on both sides, of four or five, small, 

 silvery-centred, purple-ringed, black ocelli, and a very large similar 



