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LEPIDOPTERA INDIO A. 
Hewitson Collection at tlie British Museum, and two females in our own cabinet. 
Mr. Blwes (Tr. Ent. Soc..l888, 314) records “ a pair taken by Mr. Knyvett atBuxa, 
in Bliotan. 55 
Of the illustrations of this species on our Plate No- 80, fig. 1 represents the 
male, and figs. 1, la, the type female, described and figured by Mr. Butler in the 
Lep. Exotica. 
DEBXS VINDHYA. 
Wet-season Brood (Plate 81, fig. 1, la, b, c, <£,$). 
Debis Vindhya , Felder, Wien. Ent. Monats, iii. p. 402 (1859), g. 
Lethe Vindhya , Butler, Catal. Satyr. Brit. Mus. p. 119 (1868). Marshall and de Niceville, Butt, of 
India, etc. i. p. 146 (1883). Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1888, pp. 309, 313. 
Lethe Alberta , Butler, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1871, p„ 283, £ ; id . Lep. Exotica, p. 87, pi. 33, 
fig. 5 (1872), $ . Marshall and de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 147 (1883). 
Imago. —Male. Upperside dark violescent ochreous-brown; cilia alternated 
with cinereous. Foreiving with an indistinctly-defined transverse discal erect 
straight diffused dusky line. Hindwing with a similar wavy curved discal line, be¬ 
yond which is a series of five large blackish spots, each with a slight rufescent outer 
ring, the four upper blind, the fifth with a minute white pupil; at the anal angle is 
a more or less indistinct sixth minute ocellus. Underside dark olivescent ochreous- 
brown ; crossed by a glossy lilacine-blue outer-bordered straight subbasal dark 
brown line and a discal line, the latter line on the hindwing being very slightly but 
bluntly angulated on the median veins; a short lilacine-bordered streak also crossing 
middle of the cell of the forewing; marginal lines dark brown. Forewing with a 
slightly curved series of six ocelli, the upper one sometimes undeveloped, each with 
very small black centre and white pupil, an ochreous ring, then a brown ring, and lastly 
an outer lilacine-blue ring. Hindiving with a series of six prominent black ocelli, the 
upper first and fifth the largest, the lowest duplex, each with a white pupil, an 
ochreous ring, then a brown ring, and lastly a distinct glossy lilacine-blue outer 
ring; inner marginal line also lilacine bordered and with a subanal lilacine tri¬ 
angular streak. 
Female. IJpperside somewhat paler. Forewing with the transverse discal 
line more or less slightly sinuous and also slightly pale-bordered externally; the 
anterior ocelli of the underside being also slightly visible. Kindwing with more pro¬ 
minent ocelli, and each with brighter reddish-ochreous outer ring. Underside some¬ 
what paler than upperside; the transverse lines the same, though the discal line on 
the hindwing is slightly more angular; ocelli the same. Body and legs beneath pale 
brownish-ochreous ; sides of palpi ochreous-white; antennae reddish-ochreous with 
pale rings and blackish subterminal band. 
Expanse, <S 2f to 2|, ? 3 to 3~ inches. 
