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LEPID OPT ERA INDICA. 
wing crossed by a pale oclireous excurved discal narrow macular band, tlie five 
lower portions being dentate and less defined; a prominent costal spot and two 
lower less-defined denticulate marks. Hind wing with three upper sub marginal 
dusky black spots. Underside brighter coloured; the forewing more olivescent and 
the hindwing more ochreous in tint. Foreiving with a prominent curved pale olives- 
cent-ochreous bar within the cell, transverse discal macular band, paler subapical 
descending streak and lower white dots. Hindwing with the basal area between the 
transverse lilacine lines speckled with lilacine scales, the outer bordering shade 
to the discal line being distinct; the ocelli as in male ; marginal line ochreous and 
inwardly bordered by the slender glossy lilacine line and its anal triangular spot. 
Body beneath, and legs pale brownish-ochreous; collar white; sides of palpi 
ochreous-white; antennae reddish-ochreous, with black subterminal band. 
Expanse, $ 2 to 24, ? 2~ to 2| inches. 
Habitat. — N.-W. and E. Himalayas; Bhotan. 
Distribution. —In the N.-W. Himalayas, Mr. L. de Niceville (Butt. Ind. 161) 
“ obtained the male on the Jalouri Pass, at about 8000 feet elevation, in July; and in 
Colonel A. M. Lang’s collection there is a male from Narkunda on the Hindustan 
and Tibet Road, taken in July.” Mr. W. Doherty (J. A. S. Beng. 1886, 115) re¬ 
cords it from “ Dhankuri and Khati in Western Kumaon, and Sosa in Eastern 
Kumaon, at 7000 or 11,000 feet.” In Sikkim, “a male and two females were taken 
by the late Dr. T. C. Jerdon, these Sikkim specimens being somewhat smaller than 
those from the N.-W. Himalayas ” (Butt. Ind. 161). Mr. H. J. Elwes (Tr. Ent. Soc. 
1888, 316) says “this species is very abundant on Tonglo and along the Singalelah 
Range between Sikkim and Nepal, from 9000 to 12,000 feet, in July and August, 
where it keeps company with Zophoessa Jalourida , as in the north-west. I also 
found it on the Rishilah, in British Bhotan, at 10,000 feet, and my native collectors 
brought it in great numbers from Bhotan in 1884. L . Maitrya is a forest-haunting 
insect, and has exactly the same habits as Z. Jalourida. The female is very rare, 
and I have only procured one of the sex.” 
SINCHULA NICETAS (Plate 88, figs. 4, 4a, b, c, $ ? ). 
. Delis Nicetas, Hewitson, Exotic Butt. iii. p. 78 ; Debis pi. 3, figs. 17, IS (1863), ? . 
Lethe Nicetas, Butler, Catal. Satyr. Brit. Mus. p. 116 (1868). Marshall and de Niceville, Butt, 
of India, etc. i. p. 161 (1883). Elwes, Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1888, p. 310. 
Imago. —Male. Upperside dark olivescent oclireous-brown, glossy ; cilia alter¬ 
nated with, pale cinereous. Foreiving crossed by an oblique discal indistinct dusky 
waved-fascia, which is broadest anteriorly and does not extend beyond the lower 
median veinlet, and is indistinctly macularly-bordered externally with ochreous : 
beyond is a small oblique ochreous costal spot before the apex. Hindwing with five 
