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upper and the fifth being the most prominent and more circular than the others, all 
with a chalybeate outer ring; inner marginal line also chalybeate bordered. Body 
beneath dark brown; legs beneath and sides of palpi pale cinereous-brown; 
antennas bright ochreous, club with black band. 
Female. Upperside pale olivescent oclireous-brown. Forewing with a broad 
oblique discal white band, and a contiguous terminal spot near posterior angle ; two, 
or three, small white apical spots, and two, or, three, indistinct black lower ocellate 
spots; a pale ochreous streak above the posterior margin. Hindwing with an 
angulated discal brown line with irregular yellowish outer border; two upper apical 
and three median black spots, the two former irregularly quadrate and confluent, 
the others rounded, the middle one being very small, the two lower with a white 
central dot, all being irregularly yellowish bordered; marginal lines brown and 
yellowish bordered. Underside paler ; the base and outer borders palest. Forewing 
with a pale bordered subbasal line, white oblique discal band, and four, sometimes 
five ill-defined pale-bordered ocelli. Hindwing with a sinuous subbasal line, an angular 
discal line with irregular yellow outer border, and six ocelli as in male, with brown 
and yellowish outer borders. Body and legs beneath, and sides of palpi pale ochreous. 
Expanse, 8 2f to 2f, ? 2f to 2f inches. 
Habitat.— Ceylon. 
Distribution. —“ Rare and very local. Observed only in two places in forest 
land near Newer a Eliya; March and April ” (Hutchison). Mr. F. M. Mackwood, 
in his MS. notes, remarks that this species is the rarest of the group, in Ceylon. 
Mr. E. Ernest Green notes its capture at Pundaloya in July. 
Genus DEBIS. 
Debis, Doubleday and Hewitson, Gen. Diurnal Lep. pi. 61, fig. 3 (1849). Westwood, id . p. 358 
(1851). Seudder, Amer. Acad. Arts and Sci. Boston, 1875, p. 155. 
Lethe (group II., part), Marshall and de NTiceville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 143 (1883). 
Imago. —Male. Foreioing subtriangular, narrow ; costa much arched, apex 
abruptly rounded, exterior margin very oblique and slightly concave ; posterior 
margin short; basal half hairy; a very indistinctly-defined broad inwardly-oblique 
discal dushy fascia , composed of glandular scales extending from the subcostal to the 
posterior margin ; costal vein swollen, median and submedian very slightly swollen ; 
cell broad ; first and second subcostal branches emitted before end of the cell; 
discocellulars oblique, slightly incurved, both radials close to upper end ; median 
branches equidistant; submedian nearly straight. Hindwing short; costa convex 
at the base, exterior margin slightly scalloped and with a prolonged broad caudate 
angle at end of upper median, anal angle excavated ; basal area hairy ; cell rather 
long, much pointed at end; discocellulars very oblique, long, bent in the middle; 
