SALASSA. A I 



28. Salassa lola, Westw. Cab. Or. Ent. p. 25, pi. 12, fig. 3 ; C. 8f S. 

 no. 1569. 



<S . Head, thorax, and abdomen brick-red. Fore wing brick- 

 red ; an antemedial pale and darker curved line ; a hyaline spot 

 beyond the cell very variable in shape and size ; a postinedial dark 

 line, with a series of hyaline striae on it ; a submarginal dark band, 

 with its inner and outer edges waved ; a grey apical patch. Hind 

 wing similar to fore wing, the ante- and postmedial lines broader : 

 a hyaline spot beyond the cell surrounded by an ocellus, which is 





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Fig. 13. — Salassa lola, rf. \. 



ringed black, white, and deep red exteriorly ; the hyaline striae 

 obsolete beyond the ocellus. Underside : the bas;d two-thirds of 

 wings red-brown suffused with grey, except exteriorly ; a broad 

 grey submarginal band, with waved outer edge ; marginal area 

 brown. Tibiae and tarsi grizzled. 



One specimen taken in March much paler. 



5 . Brown with dark and reddish hairs.. 



Hob. Sikhim; Sylhet. Exp., S 116, $ 120-158 millim. 



29. Salassa royi, Elwes, P. Z. S. 1887. p. 447: id. Trans. Ent. Soc. 

 1888, pi. viii, fig. 2 ; C. $ S. no. 1550 a. 



S • Differs from lola in the colour being very dark purplish red- 

 brown ; the hyaline spot large and round ; no hyaline striae on the 

 postmedial line. Hind wing with the outer ring of the ocellus 

 narrow and black, instead of broad and deep red. Underside with 

 the grey suffusion extending to the postmedial line. 



$ . Paler ; the head and prothorax yellow ; the wings clothed 

 with olive-yellow hair ; the outer part of the postmedial Hue grever. 



Hah. Sikhim. Exp., <$ 140, $ 154 millim. 



