2iS XY.Ml'HAT.ID.E. SATYRTN.E, YPTIIIMA. 



median interspaces, and two minute blind ocelli placed transversely near the anal angle ; a 

 wavy dusky sul)marginal line ; base and an abdominal streak dark grey. Body blackish. 

 Underside whitish stone-brown, finely reticulated with grey ; crossed in the middle by two 

 subparallel dusky stripes, those of the fore wing more distinct and tinted with yellowish ; 

 disc of forewing whiter than the rest of the surface ; ocellus as above. Eimhmng with all 

 the ocelli very minute ; an additional punctiform ocellus on first subcostal interspace." 

 " AUied to Y. methora ; similar in shape. It appears to be quite constant." {Bulla; 1. c.) 

 The type specimen, which was taken by Capt. C. T. Bingham at INIeplay in the 

 Thoungyeen valley in March, is in the British Museum. 



This species is, of course, distinct from Y. methora, but we are unable to detect a single 

 character by which it may be separated from Y. philoniela, specimens of which from the 

 same locality agree with this in every particular, except perhaps the presence of a dark 

 grey abdominal streak, but a dark grey streak on a dusky brownish-grey ground is not easy to 

 trace. No mention is made of the presence or absence of a male sexual streak on the forewing. 



206. YptMma indecora, Moore. 



Y indecora, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud., 1882, p. 238, pi .xii, fig. 7. 



Habitat : Western Himalayas. 



Expanse: <?, 1-25 to 1-50 ; ?,i"37- 



Description: "Nearest to Y. mica, Hewitson. Upperside brown. Fo rnving Wiih. 

 a darker subbasal oblique shade ; a prominent, bipupilled, subapical ocellus. Rimhving 

 with two smaller subanal ocelli. Underside covered with very slender grey strigce ; two 

 very faint brown fascise crossing middle of both -mugs, those on the hindwing waved. Eind- 

 7.-//70- with two subapical and three subanal, extremely minute, and indistinct silver-pupilled 

 ocelli." {Moore, 1. c). 



y. indecora is really most nearly allied to Y. pJiilomela ; from V. inica it is distinguished 

 by the presence of the sexual streak in the forewing of the male, and by the invariable 

 presence of two subanal ocelli on the upperside of the hindwing, Y. inica having no sexual 

 streak, and only a single ocellus on the upperside of the hindwing, From Y. avanta, which 

 is found in the same localities in the Western Himalayas, it differs on the upperside in having 

 the ocellus of the forewing large, bipupilled, with distinct yellow iris, and the two on the 

 hindwing each with a single silvery pupil, in these respects corresponding with Y. ordinata, 

 and in two specimens that we possess there is a third anal ocellus on the hindwing, making 

 the resemblance to Y. ordinata complete ; but on the underside it is widely different from both ; 

 the ocelli of the hindwing when visible are arranged as in Y. philomela, but they are always 

 exceedingly minute, and in a large majority of specimens are totally absent ; the striation 

 is much less distinct, and the fascite are more diffused and tinged with ochreous. In two 

 male specimens on the upperside of the hindwing there is a moderate-sized ocellus above 

 the discoidal nervule. The FEMALE has the foreiving broader and more rounded at the apex, 

 the ground-colour above and below paler, and on the upperside is decidedly mottled, and 

 lacks the sexual streak of the male on the forewing. 



Typical Y. indecora appears to be confined to the "Western Himalayas, where it has been 

 taken in Pangi, Kulu and Kangra, in April and July. But some varieties of Y. philomela 

 in the east and south, in which the subanal ocelli of the upperside of the hindwing are 

 obsolete, and those of the underside minute or obsolescent, approach it very closely indeed, 

 so much so that it is almost impossible to distinguish to which species these varieties belong. 



207. Ypthima avanta, Moore. (Plate XVII,* Fig. 66 S). 



Yphthivta avanta, Moore, Proc Zool. Soc. Lond,, 1874. p. 567. 

 Haihtat : Western Himalayas ; (var.) Burma. 

 Expanse : 1-25 to i"5o inches ; var. 170 inches. 



* Erroneously named V. ordinata on the plate. 



