SATYEIDJB. 



Genus YPHTHIMA. 



Yphthima, Hubn., E. DouU. 



IMAGO. Allied to Erebia. Head: palpi thinner, less 

 hairy ; antenna slender, very gradually and thinly incrassate. 

 Thorax smaller, smoother. Fore-wings more elongate : 

 hind-margin much more convex, entire ; costal nervure 

 strongly swollen at base (" median vein slightly swollen " 

 Gen. I). Lep.). Hind-wing : more rounded, especially at 

 anal angle ; hind-margin entire. Legs more slender, smoother. 

 Abdomen longer and thinner. 



The single South African representative of this genus that 

 I have seen is a much more delicate, slenderly-made insect 

 than the nearly-allied Erebice. The other species, Y. Cymela, 

 is only given on the authority of Cramer. The genus is as 

 widely-spread as Mycalesis, but apparently even poorer in 

 species. 



118. Yphthima Hebe. 



Yphthima Hebe, Trimen, Trans. Ent. Soc., Lond., 3rd 



[Ser., I, p. 280. 

 Exp. 1 in. 4 lin. 1 in. 8 lin. 



Ochreous-brown. Fore-wing: two silvery-centred, black 

 ocelli in orange rings near hind-margin towards apex ; before 

 them, a brown transverse streak ; beyond them, two sub- 

 marginal, parallel, linear brown streaks. Hind-wing : a row 

 of five similar, smaller ocelli (three next costa minute), 

 parallel to hind-margin ; submarginal streaks as in fore-wing. 

 UNDER-SIDE. Pale -yellowish, with red-ochreous striae. 

 Fore-wing : swelling of costal nervure at base margined with 

 red-ochreous ; three transverse striae, the outermost bifid at 

 summit, and reaching from subcostal nervure to inner-margin; 

 ocelli as above, but in additional outer rings of red ; sub- 

 marginal streaks as above. Hind-wing : three transverse 

 striae ; two other short striae in discoidal cell ; a row of six 

 ocelli, parallel to hind-margin (the first largest), like those in 

 fore-wing ; submarginal streaks as in fore-wing. 



Specimens since received from Mr. J. H. Bowker vary from the above 

 description* in possessing the red streaks of fore-wing conspicuously on 

 upper-side ; the ocelli, also, being ringed witli bright yellow. The red, top, 

 is much brighter, the colour of red-lead. In one example, indeed (in 



* Made from a single specimen in the British Museum. 



