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between the middle and lower medians. Underside : both wings with the basal 
area pale ochreous-brown, numerously covered with short dark brown strigse; 
crossed by a prominent discal yellow brown-bordered band, the exterior margins of 
the wings being pale violescent-brown, and the extreme marginal lines pale ochreous- 
brown edged with black. Forewing with a linear row of five prominent ocelli, the 
upper four being very small, the lowest large and situated between the middle and 
lower median veins. Hindwing with seven prominent ocelli, the upper second, third 
fourth, sixth, and seventh small. Male on the upperside of the hindwing with a 
subbasal tuft of black hairs overlapping the glandular patch composed of jet black 
scales . Body and legs beneath, pale ochreous-brown ; sides of palpi streaked with 
ochreous. 
ExjDanse, S 2f, ? 2f inches. 
Dry-Season Brood (Plate 69, fig 1, d, e, f, $). 
My eeriest® ( Samanta) Langii, de ISuct'yille, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 130 (1888) ; id. Trans. Ent. Soc. 
Lond. 1884, p. 88, pi. 3, fig. 3, $. 
Imago. —Male and female. Upperside. Forewing as in wet-season brood. 
Hindwing in the male sometimes with a minute anal ocellule beneath the lower 
median ocellus, and two, or three, upper minute ocelli above it; the female some¬ 
times also with a minute anal ocellus. Underside pale olivescenl-ochreous, the basal 
area darkest and numerously covered with dark brown strigm; the transverse discal 
band narrower and paler ; the ocelli minute, those anteriorly generally absent, or 
indicated by pale dots. Made -with the subbasal tuft of black hairs overlapping the 
glandular patch of jet black scales. 
Expanse, c?2-| to 2f, ? 2f inches. 
Habitat. —N.-W. and E. Himalayas; Khasia, Naga, and Karen Hills. 
Distbxbutjon. —From the N.-W. Himalayas examples of the dry-season form 
have been obtained at Masuri in April and May, by Colonel A. M. Lang. In Sikkim 
the dry-season form was obtained in March, and “ the wet-season form in August ?5 
(de Niceville, Butt. Ind. i. 129). The dry-season form is also recorded (Butt. Ind. 
i. 130) from the Khasia and Naga Hills. A male of the dry-season form, from the 
Karen Hills, Burma, obtained by Mr. Covfen, is in Mr. F. D. GiodmaiFs Collection. 
Of the illustrations of this species on our Plate 69, figs. 1, la, represent a male 
of the wet-season form, from Sikkim, in the collection of Mr. P. Crowley ; figs, lb, c, 
that of a female of the same form, in my own collection ; figs. Id, e, represent the 
male of the dry-season form, from Sikkim, also in my own collection; and fig. if, 
that of a female of the latter form, from Masuri, kindly lent by Mr. L. de Nice- 
ville. 
