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THYMIPA SAKRA (Plate 109, figs. 2, 2a, b, d 2). 
Yphthima Sakra, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. East India Compy. i. p. 236 (1857). Hewitson, Trans. 
Ent. Soe. Lond. 1864, p. 290, pl. 18, fig. 18. 
Ypthima Sakra, Butler, Catal. Satyr. Brit. Mus. p. 149 (1868). Marshall and de Nicéville, Butt. of 
India, ete. i. p. 232 (1883). 
Imaco.—Male. Upperside deep olivescent-brown ; both wings with a broad 
darker marginal band, which is slightly bordered inwardly by a few pale ochreous 
strigee, and the hindwing with avery slender pale cinerescent-ochreous extreme outer 
marginal line. Cilia brownish-cinereous. Forewing with a prominent subapical 
ocellus bipupilled with silvery-blue, and with a slender ochreous outer ring, and, in 
some few specimens, a very minute ocellus is present between the middle and lower 
medians, being more prominent on the underside ; glandular patch indistinctly defined, 
clothed with rather short broad dentate-tipt scales and with a few intervening black 
androconia, which have a short broad dilated-bulbous base, hair-like end and tassel- 
tip. Hindwing with two prominent median ocelli, the lower one the largest, and, 
generally, there is also a small anal ocellus, and sometimes a minute apical ocellus, 
which latter is also occasionally as large as the upper median ocellus. Underside 
olivescent-ochreous, densely covered throughout with wniformly-disposed dark 
olivescent-brown strige. Forewing with the ocellus, as above, very prominent and 
ringed with bright ochreous and bipupilled with silvery-blue. Hindwing with a 
very prominent large subapical geminated pair, bipupilled, both being encompassed 
in one outer bright ochreous ring; two median ocelli, and a large geminated anal 
bi-pupilled ocellus. 
Female. With somewhat broader wings than in the male. Upperside as in 
the male, except that the outer discal area of both wings is broadly more con- 
spicuously studded with cinerescent-ochreous strigz. Underside as in the male. 
Body }beneath, palpi and legs beneath pale cinerescent-ochreous; legs above 
brown ; hairs of palpi whitish tipt; antenne dusky brown, annulated with white, 
tip reddish. 
Hxpanse, ¢ 2 to 24, 2 22 inches. 
Hasitat.—H. Himalayas. 
Disrrisurion.—Typical Sakra is confined to the Eastern Himalayas. Mr. H. J. 
Elwes (Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, 326) records it as “the commonest species of the 
genus in Sikkim, at from 4000 to 8000 feet elevation, and occurs as low as 2000 
feet, from March to November. It is one of the commonest roadside insects in 
Sikkim among grass and bushes.” 
THYMIPA AUSTENI (Plate 109, figs. 3, 3a,¢ 2). 
Ypthima Sakra, Marshall and de Nicéville, Butt. of India, i. pl. 17, fig. 67, ¢. 
Iyvaco.—Male. Upperside similar to typical Sakra. Underside densely covered 
