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November. It frequents bamboos, and when disturbed flies into the thick foliage, 
where it settles on a bamboo-stem with closed wings, and is difficult to see. Like several 
of its congeners, it prefers shady to sunny places.” Specimens from Shillong, Assam, 
are in Mr. P. Crowley's collection. Capt. E. Y. Watson, in his “Notes on Chin- 
Lushai butterflies 55 (Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Sec. 1891, 10), records it “ from Tilin, 
in the Chin Hills, taken in May.” Major C. H. E. Adamson (Catal. Butterflies col¬ 
lected in Burma, p. 8) states that it is “ sparsely spread throughout Burma from 
June to August.” Mr. 0. Limborg (P. Z. S. 1878, 824) obtained it at Ahsown, 
2000 feet, and at Taoo, 3000 to 5000 feet, in Upper Tenasserim.” “ Capt. C. T. 
Bingham took it in the Donat range, Tenasserim, in February and April” (Butt, of 
India, i. 148). There is a specimen of the male from Mergui, collected by Commander 
Carpenter, R.N., in the British Museum collection. 
Distribution outside Indian area. —In the Malay Peninsula Mr. Distant (Shop. 
Malay. 414) records it from Perak, and Malacca, where Capt. Godfrey observed it 
frequenting dark shady places, passing the day at the foot of a tuft of bamboo, or 
on low shrubs under shady trees, and when disturbed it goes off with a rapid flight, 
soon settling again, however, unless it has been several times alarmed.” A specimen 
from Salanga Island is in the British Museum. A male in our own collection, from 
Sumatra, collected by Mr. A. R. Wallace, is undoubtedly Mekara. An example from 
Sarawak, Borneo, is also in the British Museum collection. This species will also 
probably include the Javan JD. Manthara (Felder, Reise Novara, iiL p. 497). 
Of our illustrations of this species on Plate 79, figs. 1, la, b, represents the 
male and female of the wet-season brood; and fig. 1, c, the underside of the male 
of the dry-season brood; all from Sikkim. 
DEBIS SATYAVATI (Plate 80, fig. 2, 2a, ?). 
Lethe Saty avail, de JNiceville, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 1880, p. 246, $ . Marshall and de NTceville, 
Butt, of India, i. p. 554 (1883), $. 
Imago. — “ Female. Upperside dull brown, paler towards the margins. Fore - 
wing with an indistinct submarginal darker line. Hindwing with a submarginal 
series of four rounded spots darker than the ground-colour, placed one in each 
interspace above the first median nervule ; two maginal darker lines defined inwardly 
by paler lines than the ground-colour. Underside pale brown, with no ochreous tint, 
and washed with lilac, especially on the outer half. Both wings crossed by a 
prominent brown nearly straight subbasal line outwardly margined with lilac. Fore¬ 
wing with an irregular discal transverse brown line ; a bar in the cell within the sub- 
basal line; five indistinct submarginal ocelli circled with lilac and brown on a lilac 
ground ; and a yellowish marginal line edged on both sides with dusky, within 
which is a brown waved band on the lilac ground between the ocelli and the margin. 
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