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LEP1D OP TER A INDIGA , 
Lethe Verma , Butler, Catal. Satyr, Brit. Mus. p. 116 (1868). Marshall and cle Niceville, Butt, of 
India, etc. i. p. 158, pi. x. fig. 23, g (1883). Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. Bond, 1888, p. 310. 
Tansima Verma , Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Bond. 1882, p. 235. 
Imago. —Male. Upperside uniformly dusky-brown, somewhat yiolescent tinted ; 
marginal lines paler bordered ; cilia pale brownish-cinereous. Foreiving crossed by a 
broad prominent ochreous-white oblique discal band, which terminates at the lower 
median close to the outer margin. Hindiving with two or three more or less defined 
subanal black white-pupilled ocellate spots. Underside uniformly paler brown ; 
marginal lines either pale ochreous or violet bordered. Foreiving with a slender 
indistinct pale violet-grey sinuous line crossing middle of the cell; an oblique 
transverse ochreous-white band as on upperside, above which are two prominent 
subapical black perfect ocelli outwardly encompassed by a pale violet-grey line, 
which ends more prominently on the costa above them. Hindiving crossed by a 
slender undulated subbasal and an angulated discal violet-grey line, beyond which is 
a series of six very prominent black ocelli, the upper one and the fifth somewhat the 
largest, each with a white pupil, ochreous ring, a dark brown ring, and all encom¬ 
passed by an outer violet-grey ring; sometimes each ocellus has a few white 
speckles as well as the pupil, 
Female. Upper and underside as in the male, except that the oblique white 
band terminates below the lower median veinlet. Body and legs beneath pale 
brownish-ochreous ; sides of palpi ochreous-white ; antennas black above, with 
ochreous tip. 
Expanse, 2 to 2^ inches. 
Habitat. —N.-W. and E. Himalayas ; Assam ; Khasia Hills ; Burma. 
Distribution. —Major H. B. Hellard, in his MS. Notes, records this species 
from “Masuri and Kaschmir at the end of August, September and beginning of 
October.’ 5 Col. A. M. Lang (Ent. Mo. Mag. 1864, 182) says this insect cc frequents 
a region about 200 miles from Kasauli, in the autumn, and affects trees, pitching 
on the trunks of Rhododendrons and Oaks.” Mr. de Niceville (Butt of India, i. 
158) says, “ Col. Lang’s specimens were taken in Lower Kunawar at an elevation of 
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7000 feet, and at Masuri, in the autumn. There is, however, a summer brood, as 
Mr. de Niceville has taken it then commonly in Simla at about 5000 feet elevation 
in forest, settled on the dark rough bark of the Deodar, where, till disturbed, it is 
completely hidden. It was not found in Kashmir either by Baron Hiigel or by 
Capt. B. Reed. Major C. H. T. Marshall found it extremely common in Chumbi in 
May, at Kujjiar.” Major J. W. Yerbury (Ann. Nat. Hist. 1888, 135) records it 
from £S Thundiani, a Hill Station (8700 feet ?) near Abbottabad, in September.” 
Mr. W. Doherty, in his list of Kumaon butterflies (J. A. S. Bengal, 1886, 117), 
records it from the €£ Lower Himalayan tract at 2500 to 6000 feet; not very 
