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Nymphalince. It is good to attract other insects as well, and I advise 

 entomologists to try it. L. europa is a beautiful insect, with its 

 lovely mottlings and markings, especially on the underside. It is 

 shy and easily scared. The costal nervure is swollen at the base, 

 and the eyes are hairy. The female is larger and more conspicuous 

 than the male, owing to the presence of a white band across the 

 fore wing. 



12. Lethe nilgheriensis, Guerin [104]. — This looks like a small 

 edition of the former, but lacks the white band across the forewing in 

 the female. This is replaced by three oval white spots ; its habits and 

 structure are the same as those of L. eurona. 



13. Ypthima philomela, Johanssen [204]. — This the rains form of 

 E. mdrshalli, Butler [205]. — All the Ypthimce are small obscurely 

 coloured brown butterflies, with ocelli on both sides of the wings, 

 and strife on the underside. They are generally found fluttering 

 about where there is grass, and flying in and out amongst the stems ; 

 they are feeble little things, and not difficult to capture. 



14. Ypthima ariaspa, Moore [212]. 



15. Ypthima asterope, Klug [213], 



16. Ypthima inica, Hewitson [214]. 



17. Ypthima singala, Felder [222]. 



18. Malanitis leda, Linnaeus [243]. — This is the rains form of 

 31. ismene, Oramer [249.] Both varieties are very common under 

 bushes and in dark places. Where there is shade and moisture 

 you sometimes come upon scores, and the bushes have only to be 

 disturbed, when they will show themselves. They rise in so great a 

 hurry that they knock against leaves, bushes, tree trunks, anything in 

 fact until they rest again, and then it is a difficult matter to find them. 

 Their colouring is a subdued yet rich brown, with a black mark on 

 the forewing, larger in 31. ismene than in 31. leda. There are two or 

 three white spots on these black marks, which former are bordered 

 more or less continuously with ferruginous. M. leda has beautiful 

 ocelli on the underside, while in 31. ismene these can hardly be seen ; all 

 the same, when once settled on the ground, they so closely resemble 

 dead leaves that the sight has to be keen to detect them. M. ismene 

 is altogether a larger and brighter coloured insect than M. leda, 

 and the underside of the former presents the most varied patterns in 



