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LEPIDOPTERA IE DIG A, 
SAMAKTA DAVIS OKI (Plate 68, fig. 3,(J). 
Imago. —Male. Upperside dark olivescent ochreous-brown. Both wings with 
a faint trace of the discal transverse band of the underside seen from above; cilia 
whitish and distinctly alternated with black at end of the veins. For Giving with a 
small black spot between the middle and lower median veins. Hindtying with two 
small black spots, of which the upper one is between the upper and middle medians 
and the other between the middle and lower medians; submarginal lunular lines 
pale, indistinct, the intervening line and the extreme marginal line of both wings 
being blackish. Underside darker, purpurescent in tint; basal area with numerous 
indistinct black strigrn. Both wings with a prominent sharply-defined white trans¬ 
verse discal band, the outer edge of which is blackish; marginal lunular lines 
ochreous. Forewing with six ocelli on a purple-brown ground-colour, of which the 
four upper are minute and the third and fourth incomplete ; the fifth (between the 
middle and lower median) moderately large, the sixth minute, and the whole encom¬ 
passed by the ordinary pale violet-grey line. Hindwing with seven ocelli, on a 
purple-brown ground-colour, of which the three middle ones are somewhat pointed 
externally, and the third, fourth, and seventh the smallest. Male with a small patch 
of black scales on underside of the forewing, and a similar patch on the upperside of 
hindwing overlapped by a subbasal tuft of brown hairs. Body dark brown ; palpi 
and legs paler; edges of palpi ochreous. Antennae bright ochreous towards the end, 
with the tip black. 
Expanse, $ 1|: inch. 
Habitat. —Anaymalai Hills, S. India. 
Distribution.—A single male of this species, here described and figured, was 
taken by Mr. Davison on the Anaymalai Hills, south of the Palghat Gap, at 3000 to 
4000 feet elevation, and is now in the collection of Mr. F. D. Go dm an. 
SAMAKTA KXC0TIA. 
Wei-Season Brood (Plate 69, figs. 1, la, b, c, $ % ). 
Mycaleds Nicotia , Double day and Hcwitson, Genera of D. Lep. p. 394, pi. 66, fig. 4, ? (1851). 
Hewitson, Exot. Butt. iii. Myc. pi. 1. fig. I, (1862). Butler, Catal. Satyr. Brit. Mus. p. 139 
(1868). 
Samcmta Nicotia , Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. Bond. 1880, p. 167. 
Mycalesis ( Samdnta ) Nicotia , Marshall and de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 129 (1883). 
Imago. —Male and female. Upperside dark olivescent ochreous-brown, exterior 
marginal lines and cilia pale ochreous. Forewing with a moderate-sized subapical 
ocellus having a. very minute lower ocellule attached to it, and a very large lower 
median black ocellus, both ringed with pale ochreous ; transverse discal line of the 
underside very slightly perceptible above. Hindwing with a moderate-sized ocellus 
