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3. YPTHIMA LYCUS, n. sp., PL A, Fig. 2, $ . 



Y. motschulskii, Marshall and de Nice Wile (wee Bremer and Grey), Butt, of India, 

 vol. ii, p. 214, n. 202 (1883). 



Habitat : Khasi hills. 



Expanse: P5 to l - 6 inches. 



Description : Male. Upperside, both icings dark glossy brown, 

 cilia paler brown. Forewing with a small black bipupilled sub- 

 apical ocellus with a pale ochreous obscure outer ring ; a broad 

 oblique black patch of scales, differently formed from those on the 

 rest of the wing from the inner margin to the middle of the 

 disc. Hindwing with a small well-formed round ocellus in the 

 first median interspace. Underside, both wings dull brown, finely 

 and densely striated with pale ochreous. Forewing with the ocellus 

 of the upperside but larger, with an outer broad yellow ring. 

 Hindwing with a large subapical ocellus, a slightly smaller one 

 in the first median interspace, a still smaller bipupilled one at the anal 

 angle — in one specimen this latter ocellus is round and bears a single 

 pupil only — all these ocelli black, with a prominent silver pupil and an 

 outer yellow and lastly a fine dark ring. Female, paler throughout 

 than the male, but does not otherwise differ except in the absence 

 of the " male mark," and the geater prominence of the subapical 

 ocellus of the forewing on the upperside. 



Through the kindness of Mr. J. H. Leech, who has sent me a male 

 of the true Y. motschulskii, Bremer and Grey, from China, I am able 

 to discriminate between that species and its Indian ally. The 

 latter is considerably smaller, has narrower wings, darker cilia, 

 no dark submarginal line to either wing on the upperside, and differs 

 conspicuously in the hindwing on the underside being brown with 

 very fine pale ochreous striation; in Y. motschulskii the ground- 

 colour is white, with coarse dark brown striation. 



As far as I am at present aware, Y. lycus occurs only near Shil- 

 long in the Khasi hills, flying at any rate from March to July, 

 and has no non-ocellated form. 



Subfamily NYMPHALIN^E. 



4. ARGYNNIS CLARA, Blanchard, PI. A, Fig. 6, ?. 



A. clara, Blanchard, Jacqueraont's Voy. dans l'lnde vol. iv, Zoologie — Insectes, 

 p, 20, n. 14, Insectes pi. ii, figs. 2, 3, male (1844) ; id., de Niceville, Butt, of India, 

 vol. ii, p. 136, n. 428 (1880). 



Habitat : Tihri Garhwal, Western Himalayas. 

 Expanse : ?, 2 2 inches. 



