CGENONYMPHA. 2IQ 



and arranged in pairs, and the surface of the wings is covered 

 with shoit brown and grey dashes. In Y. ceylonica, Hewitson, 

 the hind-wings are white. The species are rather numerous 

 in Asia and Africa, but do not quite reach Europe, though 

 one of them, K asterope (Klug), is found in Syria. They are 

 insects of very feeble flight, frequenting grassy places. 



YPTHIMA BERA. 

 (P.atcXXXV. t Fig.z) 



Yphthima bera^ Hewitson, Ent. M. Mag., xiv., p. 107 (1877). 



Upper side. Rufous-brown. Fore-wings with one ocellus 

 near the apex, with rufous border, and marked by two minute 

 white spots, and enclosed in a large border of pale brown, 

 triangular at its lower extremity, and zig-zag on its inner side. 

 A sub-marginal line of brown. Hind-wings with two ocelli 

 between the median nervules, a rufous border and white pupil ; 

 two sub-marginal bands of brown. 



Under side. Fore-wings as above, except that there is an 

 indistinct band of brown crossing the cell. Hind-wings with 

 a band of brown before the middle, a sub-marginal series 

 of five black ocelli, -with a rufous border and pupil of white, 

 the whole enclosed by a common linear brown band, the 

 ocellus second from the costal margin smaller than the others. 



Expands i T 6 o inches. (Hewitson.) 



From Lake Nyasa. There are four specimens in the Hewit- 

 son collection in the British Museum. Mr. Trimen describes 

 another South African species of Ypthima as having a weak 

 flight, and frequently settling on the ground. 



GENUS CCENONYMPHA. 

 Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett, p. 65 (1816); 

 Westwood, Gen. Diurn. Lepid., p. 396 (1851) ; Schatz and 

 Rober, Exot. Schmett, ii., p. 212 (1889). 

 Type, C. tipJiGn> Rott. 



