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with its wings l.alC oi.ened to the sun on a dead leaf or the bare 

 ground. It occurs in tlio jungles as well as in the open country, in 

 the hills as well as on the sea-coast. 



24. Ypthima asterope, /v%.— Male and female are dull brown on the 

 npperskle ; the cilia brownish-white. Forewing with the usual subapical ocellus ; 

 in most specimens a pale ocellar area and a subterminal dark-brown band' 

 Hind wing uniform with a single small subtornal ocellus. Underlie greyish- 

 white, covered with very delicate minute transverse stria3. Forewing with the 

 ocellus as on the upperside, discal and subterminal dark-brown bands conver- 

 ging and meeting below the ocellus to form a loop. Hindwing more uniform 

 with a preapical. a subtornal and a tornal comparatively small ocellus 

 Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen dull brown ; abdomen greyish-white' 

 beneath. Exp. 3G-44mm, 



In the dry season the two sexes are like the above ; the upperside is slightly 

 paler. Underside differs only in the ocelli on the hindwing being reduced to 

 mere points or altogether absent. In some specimens an obscure discal sinuous 

 transverse dark fascia on the hindwing ; and in all the dark-brown loop round 

 the lower side of the ocellus as in the wet-season form. 



Habits.— The transformations are unknown. The butterfly is found 

 in the X.- W. Himalayas, the Punjab, Western and (Central India and 

 the Deccan, Burma, China on the east and Arabia, Nubia and 

 Abyssinia on the west. 



25. Ypthima huebneri, Kirhy.—lu the wet-season form the male and 

 female upperside is greyish- brown. Forewing with the usual comparatively 

 large, bipupilled, yellow-ringed, black preapical ocellus. Hindwing usually 

 with two, sometimes with three, rarely without any, smaller similar unipupilled 

 postdiscal ocelli. Underside greyish-white, not very closely covered with trans- 

 verse short brown striae. Forewing with the preapical ocellus as on the upper- 

 side, obscure discal and subterminal brown transverse fascise and a narrow 

 brown ring round the ocellus diffusely produced posteriorly. Hindwing with 

 one apical and typically three postdiscal posterior ocelli placed in a curve ; 

 traces of transverse brown discal and subterminal fasciae in most specimens' 

 Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen greyish-brown, the abdomen paler beneath. 

 Male without secondary sex-mark. 



The dry-season male and female are similar, somewhat paler on both sides ; 

 the discal and subterminal transverse fasciae more pronounced : the ocelli on 

 the underside of hindwing minute or absent. Exp. 40-44mm. 



Habits.— The larva feeds upon grasses and is like that of J\ 

 Philomela; the pupre are also similar. The buttterfiy is ibund 

 throughout India, Burma and Tenasserim. It has just the same habits 

 as Y.philomela and is found, like it, in dense jungle country and in 

 open grass lands. 



