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LEPIJD OP TER A IN DIG A, 
(Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1888, 806) says it is 66 a common species in Sikkim from the 
Terai up to 3000 feet; it occurs from March, to November in the form of Malsara , 
but the form known as ruclis , which Messrs. Moller and Knyvett both think is the 
cold-weather brood, is only taken in February, March and April. 55 An example of 
the wet-season brood labelled 6e Bhotan” is in the British Museum. Mr. de Nice- 
ville (Butt. Ind. i. 129) records the wet-season form ( malsara ) from the Khasia Hills, 
Sibsagar, and Cherra Punji; and the dry-season form ( ruclis ) from the Naga Hills, 
and from the hills east of Manipur in May, taken by Mr. A. O. Hume. The dry- 
season form also occurs in the Karen Hills in March. In Burma, Mr. Doherty 
(J. A. S. Beng. 1886, 115) says, u I have taken the dry-season form (ruclis) abundantly 
in the Chittagong Hill tracts.” Major H. E. Adamson (in his notes) records the 
oceliated form as being cc common during the rainy season at Bhamo, but males 
only having been taken; the unocellated form not common in March.' Dr. N. 
Manders (Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1890, 517) states that it is “ a common insect in the 
Shan States.” Captain Bingham obtained the dry-season form in the Donat range in 
Upper Tenasserim in January, and in the Upper Thoungyeen forests in April (Butt. 
Ind. i. 130). In Orissa, Mr. W. C. Taylor (List of Orissa Butterflies, p. 2) records 
the dry-season form from Khurda, in March. 
SAMANTA LEPCHA. 
Wet-Season Brood (Plate 68, fig. 2, 2a, $), 
Imago.— Male. Upperside of the same colour as S. Malsara ; both wings with a 
scarcely-perceptible extremely narrow transverse discal pale line. Forewing with an 
indistinct minute subapical and a larger median blind ocellus. Kindwing with two 
minute very indistinct lower median blind ocelli. Underside coloured, and with the 
ocelli, as in C. Malsara ; the transverse discal band extremely narrow, yellow; male 
with similar tuft on hindwing. 
Expanse, 1|* inch. 
Dry-Season Brood (Plate 68, fig. 2, b, $ ). 
Samanta Lepcha , Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. Loud, 1880, p. 167, $ . 
Mycalesis ( Samanta ) Lepcha , Marshall and de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc. i, p. 130 (1883). 
Imago.— Male and female. Upperside dark brown ; with a very indistinct pale 
transverse discal extremely narrow line. Forewing with two, or sometimes three, sub¬ 
marginal blind ocelli, smaller than those in G. Malsara , the upper two being minute. 
Hindwing with one, or two, minute similar subanal ocelli. Underside darker and 
brighter coloured, more violescent in tint, greyish externally, covered with numerous 
darker brown strigse; both wings with a prominent but extremely narrow ochreous- 
yellow transverse discal band, and a submarginal series of indistinct minute black 
spots with white pupils ; a pale speckled indistinct streak crossing both cells. Male 
with similar tuft on hindwing. 
