SATYRINJE. 
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Expanse, 2 to 2| inches. 
Habitat. —N.-W. Himalayas ; Nepal. 
Distinguishable from typical $. Malsara by its narrower transverse discal band 
on the upper and underside in both the wet and dry-season brood, and distinctly 
smaller blind ocelli. 
Distribution. —Confined to the N.-W. Himalayas and Nepal Valley. Obtained 
by the late Major-Gen. G. Ramsay during his residency at Kathmandu. Col. A. M. 
Lang obtained it at Masuri in May. It has also been taken in Kangra. In Kumaon, 
Mr. W. Doherty took the wet-season form in the Kali, Gori, and Sarju Valleys, 
2000 to 4000 feet, in August and September. The dry-season form ( lepcha ■) taken in 
the Lower Kali Valley, 3000 feet, in November, rare. (Journ, As. Soc. Bengal, 
1886, p. 115). 
SAMANTA BETHAMI. 
Dry-Season Brood (Plate 68, fig. 4, <$). 
Imago. —Male. Upperside olivescent oclireous-brown, with the narrow pale 
transverse discal band of the underside plainly visible; marginal lines slightly paler. 
For Giving with a minute subapical and a small lower median ill-defined blind ocellus. 
Hindwing with two very small median blind ocelli. Underside dark cinereous pur- 
purescent-brown basally, pale purpurescent greyish-brown externally, with numerous 
slightly darker slender strigee ; transverse discal fascia pale ochreous-white and sharply 
defined internally but diffused externally. Foreiving with minute white-pupilled 
black spots. Hindwing with seven similar minute spots, the upper third almost 
obsolete ; marginal lines slender, indistinct. A small glandular patch of black 
scales on underside of the forewing on the submedian vein, and a similar patch on 
upperside of the hind wing overlapped by the subbasal tuft of dusky-brown hairs. 
Expanse, S If inch. 
Habitat.— Plchmarhi, Central India. 
Distribution.- —A single male of this butterfly taken by Mr. J. A. Betham at 
Pachmarhi, 3500 feet, a sanitarium in the Salpura Hills, Central Provinces, in June, 
1886, now in Colonel C. Swinhoe’s collection, is all that is at present known to 
us. It is undoubtedly a specimen of a dry-season form, anci a Samanta, but no 
specimens of its ocellated or wet-season form have come under our examination. The 
only other known allied species of the genus is that from the Anaymalai Hills, in the 
extreme south of India, described on next page. In his “ Notes on the Butterflies of the 
Central Provinces 55 (Journ, Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 1890, 157) Mr. Betham probably 
refers to this species, under the name M . Malsara , wherein he says, “This is the 
rains form of rudis ; I have taken but few specimens of these two forms, in fact I do 
not think I have yet taken Malsara . It is also a darker insect, but the underside 
has a redder tinge than the others/’ 
