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26. Ypthima ceylonica, Hevitson. — Male and female : ^cpperside vandyke- 

 brown to dark sepia-brown. Forewing uniform, with the usual single sub- 

 apical ocellus. Hindwing : posterior half, sometimes less than half, pure white 

 with two or three small posterior ocelli, a lunular, incomplete, subterminal and 

 an even slender, terminal brown line. Underside white with somewhat sparse, 

 short, delicate, fine, transverse brown striae, getting denser towards the apex of 

 the forewing. Forewing with the ocellus and a brown ring surrounding it very 

 broad and very broadly and diffusely produced downwards, discal and sub- 

 terminal fasciaj obscure. Hindwing with four ocelli in a curve, the anal 

 bipupilled ; traces of a discal transverse brown fascia and of a lunular sub- 

 terminal brown line. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen brown ; abdomen 

 white beneath. Exp. 34-40mm. 



Habits. — The butterfly hus not been bred. It is found in Benoal, 

 Orissa, South India, the Nilgiris, Travancore and Ceylon. C?ol. 

 Bingham considers this a race of the preceding species. 



27- Orsotrioena meda, Fabr. (Woodcut, Fig, 8). In the wet-season form 

 the mall and female upperside is uniform vandyke-brown to blackish-brown. 

 Forewing with a terminal, hindwing with a subterminal and terminal slender white 

 line. Underside darker-brown: both wings with distinct subterminal and terminal 

 slender lines as above ; a pure, white, straight, transverse, narrow, discal band 

 attenuate at both ends and beyond it a line of white-centred, ochraceous and 

 silvery-ringed black ocelli, two on the fore, three on the hindwing ; the apical 

 ocellus on both wings the smallest, the apical two on hindwing, most often 

 enclosed in the same inner and outer rings. Antennae, head, thorax and 

 abdomen brown ; antennae speckled with white and ochraceous at apex. Exp. 

 44-51mm. 



The dry-season form differs only in the ocelli and the subterminal and 

 terminal lines, sometimes the transverse white band also, on the underside 

 being obsolescent. 



Habits. — The butterfly is the northern representative of the next 



species and exists in the Punjab, Dehra Dun, Oudh, Bengal, Sikhim, 



'Central Provinces, Assam, Burma, Tenasserim, Andaman and 



Nicobar Islands, extending into the Malayan sub-region. The habits 



are the same as for the next species. 



28. Orsotrioena mandata, Moore. — Differs from 0. meda in the white 

 discal band on the underside being very much broader and proportionately 

 more attenuate apically. Often the apical ocellus on the underside of both 

 wings is in the wet-season form smaller than in 0. meda. Exp. 47-55mm. 



Larva. (PI. I. Fig. 1). — The shape of body is normal : spindle-shaped ; the 

 anal segment with two long points, minutely haired, separated squarely at 

 base and diverging, finely conical and as long as segments 12-14 together'. The 

 head is squarish, broader at jaws than at vertex, higher and broader than 



