. Butterflies. Vol. Lepidoptera. 78 NYMPHALID^. latter. Underside very dark blackish brown; the wings crossed subbasally by a slender lilacine-white straight line, followed on fore wing by an oblique short white discal fascia, and on both fore and hind wing by a post- discal series of large black ocelli and a terminal, somewhat ochraceous, narrow band bordered on the inner side by a more or less silvery purple line. The series on both fore and hind wing- margined inwardly and outwardly by silvery purple lunular lines, on the fore wing curved inwards, on the hind wing curved outwards; th
. Butterflies. Vol. Lepidoptera. 78 NYMPHALID^. latter. Underside very dark blackish brown; the wings crossed subbasally by a slender lilacine-white straight line, followed on fore wing by an oblique short white discal fascia, and on both fore and hind wing by a post- discal series of large black ocelli and a terminal, somewhat ochraceous, narrow band bordered on the inner side by a more or less silvery purple line. The series on both fore and hind wing- margined inwardly and outwardly by silvery purple lunular lines, on the fore wing curved inwards, on the hind wing curved outwards; the ocelli on fore wing confluent, black, non-pupilled, on the hind wing black with disintegrate Fig. 20.—Lethe euro pa, J. silvery-speckled irregular centres on a brown ground.— 2 . Similar: fore wing- on upperside with an oblique broad white discal band, hind wing with a postdiscal incomplete series of black spots. Underside similar to the underside in the 6, markings and ocelli larger. Exp. 6 2 62-76 mm. (2-45-3"). Hab. The plains of Northern India; lower hills of the Himalayas: Assam ; Burma ; Tenasserim ; extending to China and the Malay Peninsula. Larva. Green, paler beneath, fusiform ; head with a single short erect horn ; body attenuated suddenly from the 11th segment. Pupa. Uniform pale green, stout, smooth, quite regular, except the head-case which is semidetached, broad and angular, with two sharp points in front (after Davidson Sf Aitken). 77. Lethe tanmna, de Niceville, P. Z. S. 1887, p. 449, pi. 39, fig. 6 2; Moore, Lep. 2nd. ii, 1893-96, p. 256, pi. 82, fig. 2 $. 2 • " Upperside dull dark fulvous. Fore iving with the apical half fuscous, bearing two pure white spots below the costa, placed midway between the apex and the median ochreous band, the upper of the two spots much the smaller, and divided into two portions by the fourth subcostal nervule ; below these spots in the upper discoidal interspace is an obscure oval black spot; near the margin ar
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