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the outer margin. Foreiuing with, near the apex, a large round black ocellus with wide 

 yellow iris, and two small pupils of shining blue. Iluuhmng with two much smaller ocelli, 

 black, with yellow iris, and a single very small blue pupil, placed submarginally between the 

 median nervules. Undkkside ashy-grey with numerous small undulated tranverse brown 

 strias. FotTiving with the ocellus as on upperside. Hiiiihrnng with three [four in the 

 figure] ocelli, the two of the upperside, and a third near the costa and more distant from the 

 outer margin, [and a fourth towards the anal angle, minute, geminate. This latter ocellus, 

 though omitted from the original description, is clearly shown in Guerin's figure, and is of 

 much importance as showing the affinity of the species with Y. hucbneri rather than with 

 Y. inotschulskii\. Foreiuing with the outer margin of a yellowish-brown, and two bands of the 

 same colour starting nearly from the same point on the inner margin near the hinder angle and 

 diverging towards the costa, the one within the other beyond the large subapical ocellus. 

 Hiuibi'ing \V\\\\ the external margin equally yellowish-brown, and with three bands of the same 

 colour, and the commencement of a fourth band, on which is placed the ocellus near the 

 costa. The band near the base is slightly arched, and does not reach the inner margin ; the 

 two others diverge from the anal angle to the costa on either side of the apical ocellus. Body 

 and antenucc brown, the underside variegated with grey. There are also smaller individual 

 specimens which do not at all differ from this description." {Giiain, 1. c.) 



Y. chcnui is a rare species. Guerin's figure is evidently that of a female, and the single 

 female specimen in Mr. de Niceville's collection, which is the only one that we have seen, 

 corresponds exactly with it ; the male is apparently unknown, but it is probaljle that the 

 smaller specimens referred to above by Guerin were males, and that the sexes do not differ in 

 colouration. Unfortunately the original descriptions of the species in this genus, in no case 

 mention the sexual mark on the wing of the male insect, but it is most probable that in this 

 species the male mark is wanting. It flies in July in the Nilgiri Hills. 



220. Ypthima robinsoni, Distant. 



Y. rohbtsoni. Distant, Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist., fifth series, vol. x, p. 406 (1882). 



Habitat : Fulni, and Rhodi canal, South-India. 

 Expanse : i'27 inches. 



Description : " Upperside very dark fuliginous. Fore7vtvg\v\^\ an ovate ocellated spot 

 (black, with two small bluish centres and an ochraceous margin) placed a little beyond the 

 cell, its upper margin reaching just above the upper discoidal nervule, and its lower margin 

 extending a little beneath the first [third] median nervule. Hindioiug with two small rounded 

 ocellated spots (black, with a bluish centre and ochraceous margin) placed between the median 

 nervules. Underside : Fomvino slightly paler than on upperside, with the ocellated spot 

 brighter, and crossed by two dark transverse fasciffi, the first near the apex of the cell, and the 

 second somewhat submarginal. Hindiving greyish, with numerous dark strigre, which are 

 very thickly and confluently situate at the basal area, and crossed by three dark fuscous fascise, 

 the first and narrowest very slightly curved, passing through the middle of the cell, the middle 

 one very oblique, crossing the apex of the cell, and the third .submarginal, broadest near the 

 apex, and narrowing towards the anal angle ; between the second and third fascia; the colour 

 is very pale greyish, and contains a small ocellated spot between the subcostal nervules ; on 

 the dark outer fascia are three ocellated spots, placed two between the median nervules and 

 one between the first median nervule and submedian nervure ; all these spots are black, with 

 bluish centres and ochraceous margins. Body and legs more or less concolourous with the 

 wings." 



*' This species is allied to Y. chcnui, Guerin, from which it differs, on the underside, by 

 the darker colouration, the different direction of the two dark fascix on the forewing. which 

 do not approximate towards each other on the inner margin as in Guerin's species, and also 

 by the second and third dark fascia; on the hindwing, which in Y. rohinsoni zmq subparallel and 

 placed somewhat close together, the ocellated spots much smaller, &c." (DisUxnl, 1 c.) 



