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and discal brownish fascia, on the underside of both sexes, are both angulated in 
their course across the wings; whereas in Savara, they are straight, and in 
Dohertyi, the discal fascia is scarcely traceable, the subbasal fascia being quite 
obsolete. 
Srorion 2. 
Ocelli on underside of hindwing placed in linear series. 
THYMIPA NIKAA (Plate 109, figs. 1, la, ¢). 
Ypthima Nikea, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1874, p. 567. Marshall and de Nicéville, Butt. of 
India, ete. i, p. 232 (1883). Waterhouse, Aid to the Identif. of Ins. pl. 179, fig. 8,9. 
Ypthima Sakra, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond, 1866, p. 359; Annals of Nat. Hist. 1888, p. 136; nec 
Moore. 
Tmaco.—Male. Smaller than 7’. Sakra. Upperside. Both wings with smaller 
and less prominent ocelli—these being about half the size; with two median ocelli 
on the hindwing, sometimes one only (the lower) being present ; marginal band less 
defined and narrow; glandular patch very indistinctly defined, clothed with more or 
less short broad scales with serrate-tips, interspersed with a very few long black 
androconia, which have an elongated broad base, hair-like end and _ tassel-tip. 
Underside duller, pale cinerescent-ochreous; more densely covered with brown 
strige, especially on the forewing. Both wings with a well-defined slender pale 
ochreous extreme marginal line, and the forewing with traces of a broad discal and a 
marginal brown fascia; ocelli smaller, the apical geminated pair on the hindwing 
has, generally, separated black centres and intervening portion of the yellow ring, 
sometimes the upper median ocellus is also absent. 
Female. Upperside paler brown; extreme marginal slender pale line on the 
hindwing distinct ; discal area studded with pale strigz. Underside also paler than 
in male, more cinerescent in tint, the apical geminated-ocellus on the hindwing 
somewhat larger. 
Hxpanse, 3 $1,8, to 2 inches. 
Hasitat.—N. W. Himalayas. 
Distrisution.—Major J. W. Yerbury (Ann. N. H. 1888, 136) records it as 
“common on the lower slopes of Thundiani above Kala Pani ; and a few were 
taken at Murree and at Dewal, in August and September.” Major H. B. Hellard 
took it at ‘Simla, Masuri, and in Kashmir, from June to October” (MS. Notes). 
Col. A. M. Lang, in his MS. Notes records it from the “Simla Hills and Lower 
Kunawar, in June and July.” Mr. W. Doherty (Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, 
119) obtained it in ‘“‘ Kumaon generally, at 8000 to 11,000 feet, being common in 
the higher regions. 
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