nnoPALOCEnA .V.l/-.l ).I.V.I. 55 



placed singly between the iiervules, and the sixth and seventh together ai-c situcate between the third 

 median neivule and siibniedian nervure, and are surrounded by one outer greyish margin ; marginal laies 

 and fringe as in anterior wings. Body and legs coucolorous with wings ; antennte dull ochraceous, narrowly 

 fuscous beneath : club brighter and paler, broadly black beneath near apex. 



Male with two long tufts of pale haii-s situate at subcostal base of posterior wings. 



Exp. wings 44 millim. 



H_U5._Malay Peninsula: Malacca (Brit. Mus.)— -lava (colls. Moore and Snellen).— Sumatra (coll. 



Moore). 



This si^ecies appears to have a somewhat restricted area of distribution. Mr. Butler has 

 described and figured,* under the name of .)fiiath'sls imutllns, a form wliich he justly states is 

 "closely allied to M . jdiianlaiui." This insect was taken in Malacca (where M. jaxardaiut is 

 found) by Lieut. Roberts, in whose collection the type remains. 



Genus YPTHIMA. 



Ypthima, Hiibuer, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. (53 (181G) ; Westw., Gen. Diurn. Lap. p. 394 (1851) ; Trinicii, lUio].. 

 Afr. Austr. p. 205 (1866) ; Moore, Lep. Ccyl. i. p. 24 (1881). 



Wings short and broad. Anterior wings subtriaugular, with the costa arched and the apex rounded ; 

 the outer margin entire and slightly convex ; inner margin nearly straight ; costal nervure strongly 

 swollen at base ; first subcostal nervule only emitted before end of cell ; upper disco-cellular nervule angk-d 

 inwardly near base, fi'om thence concave, lower one also concave ; median nervure slightly swollen at base. 

 Posterior wings ovate, the costa strongly rounded and deflexed to apex, the outer margin entire ; median 

 nervules well separated at their bases, the first emitted from about end of cell ; disco-cellular nervules 

 oblique, slightly concave, the lower one longest. 



This genus has a wide area of dispersal ; it is found in Western, Southern, and Eastern 

 Africa (as far north as Abyssinia), is represented in Madagascar, is not uncommon in Tropical 

 Asia, and found on that continent as far north as Japan, distributed throughout the Malayan 

 Archipelago, and extending to Australia. Our knowledge of the genus is slowly increasing. 

 Prof. Westwood, in 1851, t could enumerate only ten species; in 18G5 Mr. Hewitson ,■: mono- 

 graphed the genus, and included twenty-four species therein ; since that time many more have 

 been described, and the present number of reputed species is little short of forty. "We know 

 little of their habits. According to Capt. Lang. § the Himalayan species are " of very feeble 

 flight, frequenting banks, hedges, and grassy land." In Ceylon Mr. Hutchison || describes one 

 species as taken only in long grass on borders of coffee-plantations at an elevation of 3000 feet, 

 and another as being very common among the roadside grasses and weeds, its flight short, 

 " constantly settling down on leaves, or in grass." 



1. Ypthima corticaria. (Tab. VI., tig. 8.) 



Ypthima curtkaiia, Jiutler, Trans. Liuu. Soc. scr. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 537, u. 3 (1877). 



Male and female. Wings above fuliginous-brown. x\nterior wings with a large subovate paler fascia, 

 placed transversely on apical half, and on which is a large ocellated spot, which is black, with two inner 



* Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. xx. p. 402, pi. ix. f. 7 (18G7|. | Geu. Diurn. Lep. pp. 395, ailC. 



; Trans. Eut. Soc. ser. .3. vol. ii. p. 283. § Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 502. 



Moore's Lep. C'eyl. i. pp. 24, 25. 



