LEPIDOPTERA INDIO A. 
DEBIS SAMIO (Plate 78; fig. 2, 2a, ? ). 
Debts Samio , Doubleday and Hewitson, Gen. D. Lep. pi. 61, fig. 3 (1849), $ . Westwood, u?. p. 360 
(1851), $. 
Lethe Samio , Butler, Catal. Satyr. Brit. Mus. p. 118 (1868). Marshall and de Nieeville, Butt, of 
India, etc. i. p. 145 (1883),^. 
Debis Purana , Felder, Wien. Ent. Monat. iii. p. 401 (1859), ? . 
Letlie Parana, Butler, Catal. Satyr. Brit. Mus. p. 118 (1868). Marshall and de Mceville, Butt, of 
India, etc. i. p. 146, $ . 
Imago. —Male. Uppersicle olivescent ochreous-brown. Foreiving without mark¬ 
ings, but crossed by a very indistinctly-defined broad inwardly-oblique discal dusky 
fascia composed of glandular scales. Ilinduring with six submarginal black spots, 
of which the upper third and the lowest are minute, the second the largest, and 
each bordered by a pale reddish-ochreous outer ring, the border of the upper three 
being broadly confluent. Underside paler and of a reddish tint; both wings with a 
slender lilacine outer bordered subbasal and a discal transverse red-brown line, the 
latter, on the hindwing, being incurved anteriorly and much angulated between the 
upper median and the radial. Foreiving with four pale ocelli, each with a lilacine 
outer ring. Hindwing with six prominent ocelli, the sixth duplex, each with a 
lilacine outer ring ; a lilacine spot at anal angle. 
Female. TJpperside paler, more olivescent-ochreous in tint. Foreiving crossed 
by an oblique discal decreasing, almost macular, white fascia, which is diffused 
externally; beyond is an adjacent obsolescent white spot between the upper and 
middle median veinlets. Hindwing crossed by a dusky-brown discal line, which is 
angulated outward just above the upper median veinlet, the angle being darker 
brown ; beyond are four large black sub marginal spots broadly circled with ochreous- 
yellow; marginal line ochreous bordered. Underside paler olivescent ochreous- 
brown, palest externally ; marginal lines ochreous bordered; both wings crossed by 
a straight subbasal darker brown line with lilacine outer border. Foreiving also 
crossed by an oblique similar discal line with broader lilacine outer fascia, beyond 
which are four pale ochreous-bordered small ocelli. Findwing also crossed by 
an angular discal brown line as in the male ; the six ocelli also as in the male, 
each with an outer lilacine ring ; a lilacine triangular anal spot below the lower 
ocellus. 
Expanse, S 2f, ¥ 2f inches. 
Habitat.— East India. 
The only specimens of this species as yet known to us are the male type of D . 
Samio in the British Museum Collection (Plate 78, fig. 2), of which no definite 
locality is known, other than that of “ East India,” and the female in Dr. Felder’s 
Collection, described by him as I). Purana , but without any given locality. For the 
