. Butterflies. Vol. Lepidoptera. 84 NYMPHALID2E. pale, anteriorly lilacine, irregularly curved discal fascia bordered on both sides by brown lines, followed by a strongly carved postdiscal series of black ocelli, each ocellus white-centred, with an inner ochraceous, intermediate brown and outer lilacine ring. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen greyish brown; thorax and abdomen beneath paler. Exp. 2 80 mm. (3-2"). Hob. Recorded only as yet from Margherita in Assam. 85. Lethe verma, Kollar (Satyrus), HiigeVs Kaschmir, iv, 1844, p. 447, pi. 16, figs. 1, 2 ; M. $ de N. Butt, hid. i, 18
. Butterflies. Vol. Lepidoptera. 84 NYMPHALID2E. pale, anteriorly lilacine, irregularly curved discal fascia bordered on both sides by brown lines, followed by a strongly carved postdiscal series of black ocelli, each ocellus white-centred, with an inner ochraceous, intermediate brown and outer lilacine ring. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen greyish brown; thorax and abdomen beneath paler. Exp. 2 80 mm. (3-2"). Hob. Recorded only as yet from Margherita in Assam. 85. Lethe verma, Kollar (Satyrus), HiigeVs Kaschmir, iv, 1844, p. 447, pi. 16, figs. 1, 2 ; M. $ de N. Butt, hid. i, 1883, p. 158, pi. 10, fig. 23 S '• Moore (Tansima), Lep. hid. i, 1890-92, p. 273, pi. 86, figs. 3, 3 a, 3 b, tf $ . 6 2 • Upperside brown. Tore wing with a broad, even, oblique, white discal band, terminating above apex of vein 2 near termen ; in the 2 continued below vein 2. Hind wing with two or three postdiscal small, obscure, white- centred black ocelli; both fore and hind wing with faintly marked, pale subterminal and terminal lines. Under- side : ground-colour similar. Fore wing with the white, oblique band as on the upperside, followed by two white-centred, ochraceous-ringed, black ocelli. Hind wing with two very irregular, lilacine, sinuous, transverse lines and a strongly arched postdiscal series of white- centred black ocelli, each encircled with Fig. 21.—LethTverma, tf. an ochraceous, a brown, and a silvery Underside. ring. Fore and hind wings with sub- terminal and terminal pale ochraceous lines. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen brown; antennae ochraceous at apex. Exp. s 2 56-64 mm. (2-3-2-5"). Hob. The Himalayas from Kashmir to Sikhim; Assam ; Burma ; Tenasserim. 86. Lethe masoni, Elwes (Debis (Tansima)), P. Z. S. 1882, p. 405, pi. 25. fig. 2; M. 4- de N. Butt. hid. i, 1883, p. 159; Moore (Chonala), Lep. Ind. ii, 1893-96, p. 15, pi. 97, figs. 2, 2 a, 2 b, J $ . (S 2 • Closely resembles L. verma, but on the upperside the ground-colour is generally darke
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