286 Mr. W. C. Hewitson’s Monograph of the 
9. Yphthima Baldus. 
Papilio Baldus, Fabricius, Ent. Sys. iii. p. 323; Godart, 
Encl. M. p. 551; Donovan’s Ins. India, Pl. 36. 
P, Lara, Donovan, Nat. Repos. pl. 71. 
Alis fuscis; anticis utrinque ocello unico ; posticis supra ocellis 
quatuor, subtus sex. 
Male.—Underside grey-white, undulated throughout with 
rufous-brown, and crossed by irregular bands of the same colour ; 
the ocellus on the anterior wing large; the ocelli of the posterior 
wing six, rarely touching, placed in pairs apart from each other, 
and at very different distances from the ouler margin; the pupils 
of all the ocelli brilliant silver. 
Female like the male, except that the wings are broader, and 
the ocelli more distinct. 
Exp. 1,4—1,% inch. 
Hab. India, Java, Sumatra, Macassar. 
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 
This is the variable species of the genus: examples differ 
greatly in size; some have the ocellus of the anterior wing small 
and obscure; some have the underside more closely undulated 
than others; in one the six ocelli of the underside are very mi- 
nute and deformed, another is without the ocellus on the upper- 
side of the anterior wing. 
I have included Donovan’s Lara, which does not differ from 
his figure of Baldus. Donovan quotes the Linnean description 
of Lara, and states that his figure was copied from the specimen 
described by Linnzeus in the Linnzan cabinet. Now it so hap- 
pens that the description referred to is that of one of the Ly- 
cenide from the Cape, closely allied to, if not identical with, 
P. lolaus of Cramer (Zeritis Lara of the “ Genera of Diurnal 
Lepidoptera”). It is true that there is an Yphthima in the Lin- 
nzan Collection from which Donovan’s figure may have been 
drawn, but Linneeus has not described it. Mr. Westwood has 
inadvertently erred in the same way in the “ Genera,” and has 
kindly assisted me to rectify his mistake ; and, in pointing out an 
error, [ think it only fair to him to express my admiration at the 
almost unerring accuracy with which his part of that work was 
accomplished. 
