CCENONYMPHA. 2ig 



and arranged in pairs, and the surface of the wings is covered 

 with shoit brown and grey dashes. In Y. ceylonica, Hewitson, 

 the hind-wings are white. The species are rather numerous 

 in Asia and Africa, but do not quite reach Europe, though 

 one of them, Y. asterope (Klug), is found in Syria. They are 

 insects of very feeble flight, frequenting grassy places. 



YPTHIMA BERA. 



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Yphthima bera, Hewitson, Ent. M. Mag., xiv., p. 107 (1877). 



Upper side. — Rufous-brown. Fore-wings with one ocellus 

 near the apex, with rufous border, and marked by two minute 

 white spots, and enclosed in a large border of pale brown, 

 triangular at its lower extremity, and zig-zag on its inner side. 

 A sub-marginal line of brown. Hind-wings with two ocelli 

 between the median nervules, a rufous border and white pupil ; 

 two sub-marginal bands of brown. 



Under side. — Fore-wings as above, except that there is an 

 indistinct band of brown crossing the cell. Hind-wings with 

 a band of brown before the middle, a sub-marginal series 

 of five black ocelli, with a rufous border and pupil of white, 

 the whole enclosed by a common linear brown band, the 

 ocellus second from the costal margin smaller than the others. 



Expands i T 6 ^ inches. (Heicitson.) 



From Lake Nyasa. There are four specimens in the Hewit- 

 son collection in the British Museum. Mr. Trimen describes 

 another South African species of YptJiima as having a weak 

 flight, and frequently settling on the ground. 



GENUS CCENONYMPHA. 

 Ccenonympha, Hubner, Verz. bek. Schmett, p. 65 (1816); 

 Westwood, Gen. Diurn. Lepid., p. 396 (1851) ; Schatz and 

 Rober, Exot. Schmett., ii., p. 212 (1889). 

 Type, C. tiphcn, Rott. 



