SATYRIN^E. 
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tuft of hairs overlapping a small glandular patch of black scales. On the forewing 
beneath is a small ordinary glandular patch of black scales above the submedian 
vein. Underside brighter brown. Both wings with the basal area indistinctly 
striated with darker brown, a transverse discal narrow violet-grey band, and greyish - 
ochreous marginal lines. Fore wing with three small prominent subapical ocelli, and 
a moderately-large lower median ocellus, both sets encompassed by a pale violet- 
grey outer line. Hindwing with seven prominent ocelli, the second, third, sixth, 
and seventh the smallest. Female as in male, except in the absence of the tuft, 
dilated median veins, and glandular patches. Body beneath, legs, and sides of palpi 
pale ochreous-brown. 
Expanse, If to 2f inches. 
Dry-Season Brood (Plate 72, fig. 1, b, <$). 
Mycalesis Khasiana, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soe. Lond. 1874, p. 566. 
Kabanda Khasiana , Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1880, p. 168. 
Mycalesis ( Kabaucla) Khasiana , Marshall and de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 127 (1883). 
Imago.— Male. Upperside dark umber-brown, paler at the apex and along the 
exterior border; marginal lines also paler. Subbasal tuft and dilated median 
branches, and glandular patches, as in wet-season brood. Underside bright vinous- 
brown basally, and violet-grey along exterior border. Both wings numerously 
covered with minute dark brown strigse; transverse discal violet-grey band very 
narrow, and a distinct yellowish narrow marginal line. Forewing with five, and 
hind'iving with seven minute perfect ocelli. 
Expanse, If inch. 
Habitat. —Ivhasia Hills, Cherra Punji, Sibsagar, Silhet, Cachar, Naga Hills. 
Seasonal Variation. —Mr. L. de Niceville (J. A. S. Bengal, 1888, 273), says: 
6C Through the kindness of the Rev. W. A. Hamilton I have recently received from 
Silhet twelve males and two females of this species, all captured within a short 
period of one another. As regards the upperside they show no variation. The species 
is a remarkable one, having no ocelli whatever above. The undersides, however, 
of these fourteen specimens (selected for me from a very considerable number 
purposely to show these variations) exhibit a perfect gradation, from a specimen with 
a single ocellus only (and that most minute, in the first median interspace of the 
hindwing, all the other ocelli being reduced to minute dots) to another with the 
ocelli as large as shown in Mr. Butler’s figure. In addition to this ocellular 
variation, we have, concomitantly, quite as great a diversity in the ground colour. 
In the form with the obsolete ocelli, the basal two-thirds of the wings are ochreous- 
brown, and the outer third, with the abdominal margin of the hindwing, is purplish- 
grey. In the form with all the ocelli large and perfect, we have the whole of the 
