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Of the illustrations of T. Baldus on our Plate, No. 106, fig. 1 represents the 

 larva and pupa reared in Calcutta by Mr. L. de Niceville, figs, la, b, c, male and 

 female from Bombay, fig. d, a Calcutta male, fig. e, an Assam male, and fig. f, a 

 Calcutta female of the tvet season brood ; and fig. g, a Bombay female, fig. h, a 

 Travancore male, and fig. i, a Calcutta male, of the dry season brood. 



THYMIPA INDECORA. 



"Wet-season Brood (Plate 107, figs. 1, la, c?). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside brown ; both wings with a darker dusky-brown 

 submarginal line. Foreioincj with a broad dusky-black medial-discal oh\\(\ne rjlandidar 

 patch extending within the cell, the patch being clothed with short broad serrate- 

 tipt battledore-scales, long narrow basally-attenuated acutely serrate-tipt scales, 

 interspersed with numerous very long and extremely slender filiform blaclc androconia 

 with tassel-tips ; a prominent large subapical bipupilled ocellus. Hindiving with a 

 slightly-apparent dusky median fascia, two large median ocelli, and the small duplex 

 anal ocellus and the apical ocellus of the underside slightly apparent. Underside 

 pale cinereous-ochreous thickly covered with slender brown strig^e ; with faint 

 traces of a transverse discal fascia and of a submarginal line on the forewing. 

 Foreiving with the apical ocellus as above, Hindwing with tbree geminated pairs 

 of large prominent ocelli disposed in echelon — two upper, two median, and two anal, 

 the latter being the smallest. 



Expanse, If to If inch. 



Det-seasoit Brood (Plate 107, fig. lb, (J). 

 Ypthima indecora, Moore, Proc. Zool. See. Lend. 1882, p. 238, pi. 12, fig. 7, ^ . Marshall and de 

 Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., i. p. 218 (1883). 



Male. Upperside as in the wet-season brood, the dusky marginal line, medial 

 fascia, and the dusky black glandular patch on forewing clothed with the same kind 

 and shaped scales and androconia. Underside cinereous-ochreous, somewhat more 

 densely covered with striga3 than the wet-season form, the submarginal brown 

 line and discal fascia on the forewing more defined, the ocellus as above. Hindwing 

 with two similarly defined medial brown fasciae, both of the latter being somewhat 

 angulated, the three pairs of ocelli disposed as in the wet-season brood, being 

 minutely defined. Female. Upperside as in male, except that the submarginal line 

 is inwardly speckled by a few cinereous stripes. Underside as in male. 



Expanse, c? ? If to If inches. 



Habitat. — IST. W. Himalayas. 



DiSTKiBUTiON. — This species is confined to the "Western Himalayas. " It has 

 been taken in Pangi, Kulu, and Kangra, in April and July " (Butt, of India, i. 218). 

 Major H. B. Hellard obtained it at " Masuri at the end of September or 



