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are minute, all encompassed by a pale purple-grey outer line. Blindwing with seven 
prominent ocelli, the third, fourth, and seventh the smallest, all encompassed by a 
single pale purple-grey outer line. Male on upperside of the hindwing with a small 
tuft of brownish hairs overlapping a glandular patch of scales above the base of 
subcostal branch ; and on the underside of the forewing with a very small glandular 
patch of dark brown scales above middle of the submedian vein. 
Expanse, S If, ? 2f inches. 
Dry-Season Brood (Plate 68, fig. 1, c, cf). 
Samanta rudis , Moore, Trans. Ent. Soe. Bond. 1880, p. 166, $ . 
Mycalesis ( Samanta ) rudis , Marshall and de Mcdville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 130 (1883). 
Imago. —Upperside similar to the wet-season brood; with the transverse pale 
ochreous band on the forewing narrower; ocelli similar. Underside, various shades 
of dark ochreous-brown basally, violescent-grey externally, or of violescent-brown, 
and grey externally, with numerous darker brown strigse; both wings with a pro¬ 
minent ochreous-yellow transverse discal broad band, the inner border of which is 
sharply defined and the outer diffused; a submarginal series of minute indistinct 
white-pupilled ocelli, the two or three subanal being generally more developed; an 
indistinct ochreous-speckled pale streak crossing middle of the cell on both wings. 
Male with the tuft, and glandular patch as in the wet-season brood. 
Expanse, If, to 2 inches. 
Habitat.— Sikkim; Khasia, Naga, and Karen Hills; Sibsagur ; Cherra Punji; 
Burma. 
Variation.— A male of the [?] wet-season brood, from Cherra Punji, Assam, in 
the Hewitson Collection (from the late W. S. Atkinson), differs from typical speci¬ 
mens above in being of a more ochreous colour, the transverse band but very 
slightly perceptible and very narrow, being two-thirds less in width. Porewing 
with small subapical and two larger median blind ocelli. Hindwing with two ill- 
defined median blind ocelli. Underside also much paler than in typical specimens 
and of a decided ochreous tint, the transverse discal band only half the ordinary 
width, more ochreous in tint, and is situated somewhat further from the outer margin; 
the ocelli on the forewing are similar, but more straight in linear series, and with a small 
additional lower one ; the ocelli also have paler ochreous rings, and the whole series 
are further from the outer margin ; hindwing with seven similar ocelli, which are 
more curved in their position across the wing, and have paler ochreous outer rings. 
A similar specimen from Sibsagar is mentioned (Butt. Xnd, i. 129) by Mr. de Mceville. 
Expanse, If inch. 
Distribution.— In Sikkim, Mr. de Mceville (J. A. S. Beng. 1881, 150) records 
the wet-season brood as C£ common in October, settling on the road in damp places; 
and (id. 1882, 56) not uncommon amongst bushes and undergrowth.” Mr. Elwes 
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