the genus Ypthima. 27 
Ypthima stellera, Hewitson, l.c., p. 285; Semper, 
Schmett. Philip., 1, p. 48; Staudinger, Exot., 
Tagf., p. 281, Pl. Ixxxiii. 
i Ye sepyra iid... C...p.292, El. xviu., fig. 10 (2). 
Smaller than average specimens of Marshalli, from 
which it may be distinguished by the white or whitish 
eround colour of the under side, and the fact that the 
post-median brown band on the under side of the fore 
wing is practically vertical, its inclination near the inner 
margin being rather towards the base than the apex; 
in Marshalli this band is always more or less oblique, 
inchning from the base to the apex of the wing as it 
passes from the costa to the inner margin; Staudinger’s 
figure is not characteristic in this respect. The brown 
bands on the under side are all more sharply defined 
than in Marshalli. Sex-mark distinct. Viewed a little 
obliquely, with the concavity uppermost, the clasp of 
stellera appears to have each apical angle produced into 
a broad, sharp, triangular tooth; in the same aspect of 
the clasp of Marshalli each apical angle appears to be 
produced into a subequal bluntly rounded lobe, the clasp 
thus bearing a rough resemblance to a letter Y. 
A & from the Philippines is abnormally small, only 
expanding 28 mm., and wants the sex-mark; the latter 
circumstance may be due to abrasion, but more probably 
it is the result of feeble organisation. 
Y. sepyra, Hew., from Gilolo Batchian (Wallace), may 
possibly prove distinct; the three examples in the 
Hewitson collection are distinguishable from wet-season 
Marshalli and stellera by the very broad orange iris of 
the ocelli, which coalesces in the case of each pair, as in 
Hewitson’s figure. The insect seems to us, however, to be 
more nearly allied to stellera than to wet-season Marshalli, 
but the striolation of the under side of the fore wing is 
close and rather regular, giving to the surface a dark 
appearance, and the line bounding the ocellar space 
inwardly is very indistinct. 
Hab. Java saden) ; Philippines (Semper) ; Palawan ; 
Davao, 8.EK. Mindanao (Platen). 
31. YVpthima zodia. (Pl. 1., figs. 12, 138). 
Ypthima zodia, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1871, 
p. 402; Leech, Butt. China, &., p. 91, Pl. x., 
fig. 10,2. 
