Chazara persephone, the dark rockbrown, is a butterfly species belonging to the family Nymphalidae.

The round black spot in front of the centre of the outer margin is so surrounded with white that it resembles the pupil of a large ocellus.

On the shores of the Black Sea, in South Russia, Armenia and Asia Minor, also in Persia and Afghanistan.

from Central Asia, the Altai, the Tian-Shan, and Turkestan, is above similar to anthe [ persephone ], but the underside of the hindwing is not traversed by white veins.

— anthe [ persephone ] is a widely spread species in Western Asia, and is very abundant, both there and in South Russia in June and July.