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on the outer pale band, the sixth geminate, all grey with irregular black pupils, and circled 
with pale brown and violet ; the area beyond the ocelli yellowish, shading into dark brown 
towards the margin, and grey at the apex ; two ochreous marginal lines sharply defined with 
black lines. Hind wing with six very large ocelli, all profusely irrorated with white, and all, 
except the first, disintegrated, the whole enclosed by a silvery lilac line ; an outer ochreous 
and an inner silvery marginal line, both sharply defined with black. Cilia ochreous. 
" Female similar to the male, but paler coloured ; on the upperside the fore wing is crossed from 
the middle of costa to outer angle by a broad straight pure white band ; the subapical spots 
are pure white ; and on the hind wing the submarginal black spots are more prominent. 
Underside similar to the male, but having in addition a broad transverse white bar on fore 
wing which more or less obliterates the two lower ocelli." {de Niceville, h c.) 
Mr. Elwes (Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1881, p. 903) says DeUs europa "occurs 
at Kiukiang- [Maries] and possibly elsewhere. A specimen in the Hewitson 
collection from Amoy resembles the variety nilgherriensis, Guer." 
The figures of beroe, Cram., from China agree fairly well with specimens I 
took at Foochau in April, but my collectors do not appear to have met with 
any form of L. europa in Central or Western China. 
Marshall and de Niceville state that this species occurs on the plains of 
India and in Sikkim, Burma, the Andamans, Malayana, and China. 
Lethe dyrta. 
Debis dyrta, Felder^ Reise Nov., Lep. iii. p. 497 (1867). 
Lethe dyrta, Butler, Cat. Lep. B. M., Satyridce, p. 115 (1868); Marshall & de Niceville, 
Butt. lud. i. p. 152, pi. X. fig. 22, ^ ? (1882). 
Male. Fuliginous brown tinged with olive ; primaries with white spots towards apex ; an indi- 
stinct pale band from costa to inner angle and a submarginal series of indistinct ocelli ; secon- 
daries also have a series of indistinct ocelli on submarginal area. Under surface brown ; 
primaries paler at the base and along inner marginal area ; the cell crossed by two wavy 
lilac-white lines, and there is a transverse white band beyond the cell ; there is a series of six 
ocelli without pupils, enclosed by wavy lilac-white lines ; secondaries traversed by basal, sub- 
basal, and central lilac-white lines ; there is a series of six ocelli, that near outer angle is of 
large size and has a white pupil, yellow iris, and is encircled by lilac-white ; the second, third, 
and fourth are not well formed, and the black portion of each is much broken up ; the fifth 
is large, and the sixth double. 
The female differs from the male in ha\ang a broad central white fascia on primaries. 
Expanse, S 60-68 miHim., $ 56-70 millim. 
Chinese examples do not difier in any important character from Indian 
specimens. 
Common and generally distributed in Central and Western China, and I 
have a few examples taken by myself at Foochau in April. In India it occurs 
throughout the Himalayas. 
