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Genus YPHTHIMA. 



Yphthima, Huhn., E. Doubl. 



Imago. — Allied to Erehia. — Head: palpi thinner, less 

 hairy ; antennce slender, very gradually and thinly incrassate. 

 Thorax smaller, smoother. Fore-wings more elongate : 

 hind-margin much more convex, entire ; costal nervure 

 strongly swollen at base (" median vein slightly swollen " — 

 Gen, Jb. Lep.). Hind-wing : more rounded, especially at 

 anal angle; hind-margin entire. Ze^5 more slender, smoother. 

 Abdomen longer and thinner. 



The single South African representative of this genus that 

 I have seen is a much more delicate, slenderly-made insect 

 than the nearly-allied Erehice. The other species, Y. Cymela^ 

 is only given on the authority of Cramer. The genus is as 

 widely-spread as Mycalesis, but apparently even poorer in 

 species. 



118. Yphthima Hebe. 



Yphthima Hebe, Trimen, Trans. Ent. Soc, Zond., 3rd 



[Ser., I, p. 280. 



Exp. 1 in. 4 lin. — 1 in. 8 lin. 



Ochreous-hrown. Fore-wing: two silvery-centred, black 

 ocelli in orange rings near hind-margin towards apex ; before 

 them, a brov/n transverse streak ; beyond them, two sub- 

 marginal, parallel, linear brown streaks. Hind-wing : a row 

 of five similar, smaller ocelli (three next costa minute), 

 parallel to hind-margin ; submarginal streaks as in fore-wing. 

 Under-side. — Pale -yellowish, with red-ochreous striae. 

 Fore-iving : swelling of costal nervure at base margined with 

 red-ochreous ; three transverse striae, the outermost bifid at 

 summit, and reaching from subcostal nervure to inner-margin; 

 ocelli as above, but in additional outer rings of red ; sub- 

 marginal streaks as above. Hind-wing : three transverse 

 striae ; two other short striae in discoidal cell ; a row of six 

 ocelli, parallel to hind-margin (the first largest), like those in 

 fore-wing ; submarginal streaks as in fore-wing. 



Specimeris since received from Mr. J. H. Bowker vary from the above 

 description* in possessing the red streaks of fore-wing conspicuously on 

 upper-side ; the ocelli, also, being ringed with bright yellow. The red, too, 

 is much brighter, — the colour of red-lead, la one example, indeed (in 



* Made from a single specimen in the British Museum. 



