326 Mr. H. J. Elwes’ catalogue of the 
de Nicéville, or Knyvett have ever procured it, and it 
may not occur in Sikkim. 
72. Ypthima hiibneri. 
Ypthima philomela, Hubner (nec Linn.), Zutr. Ex. 
Schmett., t. 88, 84 (1818). 
Y. hitbneri, Kirby, Cat. Di. Lep., p. 95 (1871); Butt. 
Ind., 1., p. 226, t. xvil., 65, 3. 
Y. hibneri et howra, de Nicé., J. A. S. B., 1886, p. 231. 
Occurs in the Terai during the rainy season, but, as 
far as we know, not in the hills. 
73. Ypthima sakra. 
Ypthima sakra, Moore, Cat. E.1.C., p. 286 (1857) ; 
Butt. Ind., i:,-p..282; 6. xvii, 670d" 
Y. nikea, Moore, P.Z.8., 1874, p. 567; Butt. Ind., 
1. p. 232. 
The commonest species of the genus at 4 to 8000 ft. 
elevation, and occurs as low as 2000 ft. from March to 
November. This is one of the commonest roadside 
insects in Sikkim among grass and bushes, and does not 
seem to vary much, except in the form and number of 
the ocelli, which are larger in the Sikkim and Khasia 
insect than in those separated as Y. nikea from the 
N.W. Himalaya. In a series of fourteen pairs from all 
these localities I find no constant characters by which 
two forms can be distinguished. I have a specimen 
from Ta-tsien-lo, E. Tibet, in which the ocelli are very 
large. 
74. Ypthima methora. 
Ypthima methora, Hew., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1864, 
p- 291, t. xviil., 20, 21, 2. 
The species which I take to be the Y. methora of 
Hewitson, though it is not the same as that identified by 
Marshall and de Nicéville, is a large insect, which seems 
to me to be nearest to Y. sakra, and belongs to the 
eroup which has no sexual mark on the fore wing of the 
male. 
It has the ocelli as in Y. sakra, but the double- 
pupilled one on the fore wing is usually larger, and those 
