the genus Ypthima. 33 
3d. Allied to argus and avanta, but distinct from either in the 
form of the genitalia, and in the more pointed fore wing; it agrees 
with the former on the upper side, save that it has a well-defined 
wide dark marginal band on the fore wing, and a dark submarginal 
line on the hind wing ; on the under side it agrees well with certain 
of our specimens of avanta with small ocelli, but the dark bands 
are entirely wanting. Viewed with the concavity uppermost, the 
clasp appears to have each apical angle slightly produced to form a 
broad rounded-triangular lobe, and from the apex of one of these 
lobes a vertical plate runs inwards and downwards for a distance 
about equal to half the width of the apex of the clasp. 
38. Ypthima avanta. (Pl. I., fig. 27). 
Ypthima avanta, Moore, P.Z.8., 1874, p. 567; Marsh. 
& de Nicé., Butt. Ind., i., p. 218, pl. xvii., fig. 66, 
3 (ordinatarecte avanta) ; Waterhouse, Aid, vol.ii., 
pl 179, tig: 6.9% 
In the wet-season form of this species the ocelli on the 
under side of the hind wing are five only, the anal 
bipupillate, but in the reduction which takes place in 
the size of these ocelli in the dry-season form the anal 
ocellus is more or less completely broken up into two. 
The female is lighter in colour than the male, and has 
the ocellus on the upper side of the fore wing well 
developed; it may, however, be distinguished from its 
allies by the presence of the narrow dark bands on the 
under side. 
Hab. N.W. Himalayas from Kashmir to Kulu (John- 
ston, G. Young); Kangra (Hocking); Naga Hills (Doherty), 
one pair only; Upper Burmah, Tenasserim (Watson) ; 
Changyang, Ichang, C. China (Leech); Hong Kong 
(Pryer). 
Y. ordinata, Butl. (P.Z.8., 1880, p. 148, pl. xv., fig. 3), 
is sometimes quoted as a synonym of this species, but 
the type of the former in the British Museum possibly 
represents a distinct species, or may be what is called 
thora; it seems to bea 3, although the determination 
of this point is rendered difficult by the fact that its 
body has been replaced with shellac, with its apex next 
the thorax; assuming, however, that it is really a 3, 
it may be distinguished from avanta by the possession of 
an ocellus on the upper side of the fore wing, and the 
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