YPTHIMA. 



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Eyes prominent, naked. 



Antennce not half the length of the fore wings, very slender, ringed with white ; terminated by a very slender 

 club, gradually formed, with the joints short, and finely carinated beneath on the inner side. 



Labial Palpi rather long, slender, acute at the tip, porrected obliquely, straight, compressed; the tip elevated to 

 the level of the top of the eyes, and extending forward further than the length of the head, clothed beneath 

 with long, straight, divergent, slender, bristly hairs ; the terminal joint being but slightly hairy. 

 Thorax small, clothed in front with woolly hairs. 



Fore Winffs large, elongated, triangularly-ovate. Costal margin well arched ; apical angle rounded. Apical 

 margin entire, convex, about two thirds of the length of the costal margin. Inner margin nearly straight, 

 three fourths of the length of the costal one. Costal vein strongly swollen at tlie base. Posteostal vein with 

 its first branch arising just before the anterior extremity of the discoidal cell; the second, third, and fourth 

 branches arising at equal distances apart ; the second at a considerable distance beyond the cell. Upper 

 disco-cellular vein nearly obsolete, arising at about half the length of the wing : middle disco-cellular curved 

 towards the base of the wing : lower disco-cellular much longer, nearly continuous with the middle one, and 

 united to the third branch of the median vein at a short distance beyond its origin; this latter vein is 

 moderately swollen at its base, the submedian vein being simple. 



Hind Wings triangularly ovate. Costal margin rounded, as well as tlie outer margin, which is entire. Inner 

 margrin slightly emarginate towards the extremity. Costal vein extending to about two thirds of the length of 

 the costa. Posteostal vein arising just opposite to the precostal one ; its branch arising at a considerable 

 distance from the base. The upper disco-cellular vein arising at a short distance from the origin of tlie branch, 

 oblique, slightly curved : outer disco-cellular longer, also oblique, and very slightly curved ; uniting with the 

 tlurd branch of the median vein at a little distance beyond its base. 



Fore Legs of the male extremely minute, hirsute, concealed among the hairs of the breast. Coxa long ; 

 remainder forming a very small oval articulated mass, much shorter than the coxa. Fore Legs of the female 

 small, but quite distinct, several times longer than those of the male, scaly, destitute of long hairs. The tibia 

 shorter than the femur. Tarsus about equal in length to the tibia, rather widened to the tip, articulated ; the 

 tips of the joints beneath furnished with short spines. Claws wanting. 



Four nind Legs scaly, moderately elongate and slender. The femur moderately clothed beneath with hairs. 

 Tibiaj scaly, scarcely spined beneath ; tibial spurs long. Tarsi with longer spines oa the sides beneath. 

 Ungues strong, curved, entire. Paronychia minute. 

 Abdomen elongated, slender, rather thickened at the tip in the males. 



This, like the last, is a group of small very plain-looking butterflies, for the most part natives of India and the East, distinguished by 

 their dull uniform colours, of which brown is the most ordinary, generally variegated in the fore wings by an eye-like spot near the tip of 

 tlie wing (the ocellus in iNIycalesia being nearer the hinder angle), often bearing two minute silvery white dots ; the hind wings are also 

 generally ornamented with several smaller ocelli. On the under side the wings are paler, but the ocelli are larger, and the disc is 

 generally completely covered with small transverse freckles. The species are at once distinguished b}' the situation of the branches of 

 the posteostal vein; the first arising near the extremity of the discoidal cell, whilst the second has its origin at a considerable distance 

 beyond the cell, and is followed at equal distances by the third and fourth branches, the last being also at an equal distance from the 

 tip of the wing ; the extremely minute size of the fore legs of the mile Is another distinguishing character of the species. 



YPTHIMA. 



1. Ypth. Baldus. 



Papilio Baldus Fahricius, Mant. Ins. ii. p. Si. n. 35f)., 

 Eiit. Sunt. III. pt. 1. p. 323. n, 691). ; Gndurt, Enc. M. 

 IX. p. .'j.'il. n. 1S4. ; Dotiovaa, Ins. India, pi. 30'. f. 2. 



Papilio Lysamlra Cramer, Pap. pi. 293. f. G. H. 

 East India, Java. B. M. 



2. Ypth. Nabeda. 



Satyrus Nareda Kotlar in Hugii's lieise n. Kasrhmir, p. 

 45 1. 

 Himalaya. 



3. Ypth. Philomela. 



Ypthima Philomela Iliibner, Zutr. f. 83, 8 1. ; E. Doubl. 

 List Lep. B. M. p. 138. 

 Georgia, Florida (Hiibner), Northern India (E. Doubl.). 



B. M. 



4. Ypth. Asterope. 



Hipparchia Asterope Kluy in Elirenb. Sj Henipr. Sj/nih. 

 Phys. pi. 29. f. 11, 12. (m.) 13, 14. (f.) 

 Syria. 



5. Ypth. Norma. 



Ypthima Norma Westwond MS. ; DovhI. Westm. Si 

 Ilricits. Gen. D. Lep. pi. 67. f- 1- 

 China. B. M. 



6. Ypth. Lahoides Westw. 



Papilio Lara Linnecus, Mas. I, ml. Ulr. p. 320. n. 138., 



Sp. Ins. p. 127- 

 Papilio Lara Donovan's Naturalist's Repos. 11. pt. 7I., 

 Dravinys in liibl. Hope, Oxford.* 

 Cape of Good Hope. 



7. Ypth. Arctous. 



Papilio Arctous Fahricius, Mant. Ins. 11. p. 33., Ent. 



Syst. III. pt. 1. p. 22. n. 6'9'>. ; Donovan, Ins. New 



Holt. pi. 24. f. 2. ; Godart, Enc. M. ix. p. .').';2. n. 

 1 85. ; Boisdttval, Voy. de (Astrolabe, Entomol. ])t. 1 . p. 

 15G. 



New Holland. B. M. 



* LinnsEus expressly describes the hind wings as destitute of ocelli beneath, whilst Donovan's figure, copied from .Jones's drawings, represents an Ypthima 

 allied to Baldus. 



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