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minute, and sometimes scarcely visible, but tlie characters given above by Ilewitson will always 

 serve to distinguish it. It occurs in India in the Western Himalayas, and probably throughout 

 Continental and Peninsular India in suitable localities. We have specimens from Chumba, 

 Kussowli, Naini Tal, Sind, Khandcsh, Nagpur, Mhow and Poona. Specimens from Chumba, 

 taken in March by Major C. H. T. Marshall, are very dark in colour, the subanal ocellus on the 

 upperside of the hind wing is prominent in all, and in one there is a smaller ocellus on each side 

 of it, making three in all ; the underside is uniformly striated on the hindwing, except in one spe- 

 cimen, which has a trace of a median rufous fascia. Specimens from Mhow, taken in May by 

 Colonel C. Swinhoe. are paler and more whitish on the underside ; and in all of them there is a 

 trace, more or less distinct, of a median rufous fascia on the hindwing ; the ocelli are very mi- 

 nute and in many of them scarcely traceable. Specimens from Poona, taken in October by 

 Colonel Swinhoe, are typical, all having the ocelli minute but prominent, and only one or two 

 showing a trace of the median rufous fascia on the underside. A single specimen from Hydera- 

 bad in Sind is a typical female ; so are also two specimens from Amri and Ghindwara in the 

 Central Provinces taken in October by Mr. J. A. Betham. 



214. Ypthima Inlca, Hewitson. 



Yphthima inica, Hewitson, Trans. Ent. Soc Lond., third series, vol. ii, p. 284, n. s, pb ivii, fig. 5 (1S64). 



Habitat : East India. 



Expanse : 17 inches, Hezvitson (about i"4 in his figure), I'l to i'3 inches. 



Description : " Upperside rufous-fuscous, each wing with a single ocellus. Underside 

 cineraceous, undulated with rufous. Fornving with a single ocellus. Female : Uppersidb 

 rufous-brown, with a single ocellus on both ivings. Underside with rufous undulations 

 throughout. Forewing with the ocellus as above. Hindwing without ocelli, clouded with darker 

 colour." 



" Closely allied to Y, asterope, but without the circular brown band which surrounds the 

 ocellus on the forewing of that species, and also without the rufous space (devoid of undulations) 

 near the anal angle." (Hrwitson, 1. c.) 



The only precise record of the occurrence of Y. inlca that we have received is from Lieut- 

 enant-Colonel C. Swinhoe, who writes that "it was very common at Mhow in Central India from 

 November until March, when it was replaced by Y. asterope, which has been just as common 

 ever since, but I have not captured a single Y. inica since the 20th March. I have also Y. 

 inica from Paras Pani near Mirzapur taken in February." Not one of these specimens that we 

 have seen come anywhere near the dimensions given by Hewitson (l•^ inches in expanse); they 

 are all far smaller, ranging from l"l to i"3 inches only in expanse ; but they correspond well 

 with the description, and some examples which were sent to the British Museum were identified 

 by Mr. Butler as Y. inica, Hewitson ; so that they may be accepted as Y. inica pending further 

 research. These are, as Hewitson remarks, very closely allied to Y. asterope, and the fact 

 recorded above by Colonel Swinhoe suggests the idea that they may be only the winter brood of 

 that species. They are easily distinguishable from all other species in which the ocelli of the 

 underside of the hindwing are entirely absent by the markings of that wing which on the under- 

 side has four irregular, interrupted, generally clouded and indistinct dark bands, the intervening 

 spaces paler, and about the middle of the wing often washed with ochreous. The male of Y. 

 inica has no trace of the sexual patch on the forewing. Y. inciecora, which most nearly ap- 

 proaches it in the aspect of the underside, may be distinguished by its larger size, the presence 

 of the sexual patch in the male, and of at least two ocelli on the upperside of the hindwing, 



215. Tpthimanarasingha, Moore, 



Yphthima narasinga, Moore, Horsfield and Moore, Cat. Lep. E. I. C, vol. i, p. 236, n. 509 (1857); id., 

 Hewitson, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., third series, vol. ii, p. 291, n. 21, pi. xviii, fig. 19 (1864). 



Habitat : Sikkim. 

 Expanse : 2 inches. 



Description : " Upperside with only one ocellus on the forewing. Underside 

 greenish-grey, covered with short undulated darker strice, the one ocellus on the forrdjing 



