232 NYMPHALID/E. SATYRIN.T:. YPTHIMA. 



more broadly, and then ngain with dark brown. Hindiiung with one black ocellus very promi- 

 nently pupilled with bluish-silver between the lower median nenules some distance from the 

 margin, and two bluish-silver specks on the submarginal dark line near the anal angle being the 

 pupils of obsolete geminate ocelli, a submarginal sinuous dark brown line ; the margin of both 

 wings narrowly whitish, defined on the inside with dark brown ; the cilia brown. Under- 

 side greyish-white, covered more or less with fine reddish-brown strias. Forgoing with the 

 ocellus as on upperside. Himhving with six ocelli, the first three in a line from the costa 

 small, the tliird minute, the fourth between the first and second median branches large, the 

 fifth and sixth geminated at the anal angle, all prominently pupilled with bluish-silver as on 

 the upperside ; the cilia brown, the margin of both wings narrowly pure white, inwardly defined 

 by a brown line, then a whitish mottled line, broadest at costa of forewing and ending at 

 the fifth ocellus of the kituhvitig ; two brown lines one on each side of the ocellus of forewing, 

 and meeting below it, continued on the himkmng as a single narrow band on which the first 

 three ocelli are placed, and terminating just beyond the third ; a short brown line from the 

 ccsta of forewing, defined exteriorly with whitish, and again another brown line continued 

 across the hindwing to the abdominal margin, and on the latter wing defined externally with 

 w^hitish, the basal area more densely striated than the external area ; no defined fascia 

 on basal half. 



Y. bolaiiica is unlike any other known species of this genus ; it perhaps most nearly 

 approaches Y. orditmta in the markings of the underside, but there is no trace of a subbasal- 

 fascia • the median and submarginal fascire are much more distinct, the ground-colour beyond 

 the median fascia is whiter, and the ocellation is very different, the six ocelli of the hindwing 

 being nearly in a straight line. The median nervure is much swollen at the base, more so 

 than in any other species ; and there is no trace of the sexual patch on the forewing of 

 the MALE. 



Taken by Lieutenant-Colonel Swinhoe, in whose collection the type specimen is, at Mach 

 in the Bolan Pass in September, 1879. 



225. Tpthima Sakra, Moore. (Plate XVII, Fig. 67 $ .) 



Yphthimn snkra, Moore, Horsfield and Moore, Cat.'Lep. E. I. C, vol. i, p. 236, n. 508 (1857); id., Hewitson, 

 Trans. Ent. See. Lond., third series, voL ii, p. 290, n. 18, pi. xviii, fig 18 (1864). 



Habitat : Himalayas, Khasi and Naga Hills, Upper Burma. 



Expanse : I'Ss to ii inches. 



Description : "Upperside [brown], with five ocelli, one being on the forewing, three 

 near anal angle, and one (but indistinct) near anterior angle of the hindwing. Underside 

 yellow, covered with short narrow dark brown striae. Hindwing with geminated anterior, 

 and three single posterior ocelli." {Moore, 1. c.) 



For remarks see the next species, Y. nikcea. 



The figure shows the upper and undersides of a male specimen fromShillong in the Indian 

 Museum, Calcutta. 



226. Ypthima nikasa, Moore. 



Yphthima nikaa, Moore, Proc Zool. Soc. Lend., 1874, p 567. 



Habitat : N.-W. Himalayas. 



Expanse : ry to 2'i inches. 



Description : "Upperside dark brown ; pupils of ocelli blue. Forezving with asubapical 

 bipupilled ocellus (smaller than in Y. sakra). Hitidwing with two subanal ocelli. Male some- 

 times with only one subanal ocellus. Underside grey, with numerous short brown narrow 

 strigae. Forewing with the ocellus as above, and a distinct brown submarginal transverse fascia. 

 Hindwing with five ocelli, the two apical being the largest and joined together, though 

 having a yellow band between them ; the other three ocelli in a linear series from anal angle, 

 the aupl one bipupilled." 



