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the lower discoidal nervule to the inner angle, beyond these lunules in each inter¬ 
space is a fine ochreous line; across the disk of the wing, from the middle of the 
costa to near the inner angle, is a broad bright ochreous band, its inner edge nearly 
straight and even, its outer edge produced into points between the veins, the lower 
portion of the band composed of two spots (the lower one very small) in the sub¬ 
median interspace. Hindwing with the ocelli of the underside more or less showing- 
through by transparency; a series of bright ochreous lunules with inner dark 
borders placed near the outer margin between the veins, with a darker ochreous line 
beyond. Underside dull brown. Forming with a whitish subbasal line crossing 
the middle of the discoidal cell from the subcostal to the submedian nervure; the 
broad discal band as above, but with its edges more even and wider at its lower 
end ; beyond it are four ill-shaped ocelli with black pupils dotted with white, a pale 
violet ring, then a browner ring and an outer pale violet ring; the margin marked 
much as above. Hindiving with a subbasal line in continuation of that on the fore¬ 
wing, not reaching the abdominal margin; a discal series of ocelli placed on a pale 
violet band, which more or less follows their outline ; the upper ocellus very large, 
its centre deep black dotted with white, then a broad rich ochreous ring, outwardly 
defined with a fuscous ring ; the next largest ocellus is in the first median interspace, 
with two very small, equal-sized ocelli in the interspaces above and below it, and 
two very small and indistinct ocelli divided by the discoidal nervule; the bright 
ochreous lunules on the margin of the upper side white, almost silvery on the under* 
side.” 
“ Expanse, ? 2f inches.” 
Habitat. —Little Nicobar. 
cc This is a local form of the widely-distributed L. Europa , which occurs in the 
Andamans (but is replaced apparently in the Nicobars by this species). The female 
may be at once distinguished from the same sex of L. Europa by its more tawny 
coloration on the upperside, the discal hand bright ochreous instead of white, with its 
outer edge more irregular, and by the underside of the hindwing having four well- 
formed perfect ocelli; in L. Europa the black middle portion of all the ocelli except 
the upper one is entirely disintegrated and broken up into black dots. Mr. E. H. 
Man obtained a single specimen on Little Nicobar.” 
The illustration of this species on our Plate 82, fig, 2, represents the female, 
reproduced from Mr. L. de Niceville’s figure of the type specimen. 
LETHE DBYPETES (Plate 83, figs. 1, la, b, c, d, $ , and larva and pupa). 
Debts Drypetes , Hewitson, Exotic Butterflies, iii. p. 76, Debts pi. 2, figs. 11, 12 (1863), $ . 
Lethe Drypetes , Moore, Lep. of Ceylon, i. .p. 17, pi. 8, figs. 1, a, b, <$ $ (1880); id. pi. 210, figs, 5, 5a, 
larva and pupa. 
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