64 LEPIDOPTERA INBICA. 



beginning of October, and in the lo^er Bagh River Valley, Kashmir, at the end 

 of June " (MS. Notes). Specimens are in Mr. Gr. F. Hampson's collection from the 

 Kulu Valley, 500 feet elevation, taken by Mr. E. Graham Young. 



THYMIPA METHORA. 



Wet-season Brood (Plate 107, fig. 2, 2a, b, ^J, ? ). 



TpJith'ma Methora, Hewitson, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1S64, p. 291, pi. 18, fig. 20, 21, ?. 

 Tpthima Methora, Butler., Catal. Satyr. Brit. Mus. p. 149 (1868). Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 

 1888, p. 326. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark olivescent-brown, with a faintly-indicated 

 darker narrow transverse discal and a submarginal recurved fascia. Forewing with 

 a large prominent apical black ocellus with pale ochreous outer ring and bipupilled 

 with silvery-blue ; a faintly-indicated broad dusky glandular patch, which is clothed 

 with short dentate-tipt battledore-scales, some longer serrate-tipt scales, and a few 

 moderately long blackish androconia with broad clavate base, short hair-like end and 

 tassel-tip. Tlindtnng with six distinct ocelli, placed in echelon, the two upper being 

 moderately small, the two median moderately large, and the two anal small, all 

 narrowly ringed with pale ochreous, and the four latter silvery-blue pupilled. 

 Underside pale ochreous-cinereous ; densely covered with thickish dark brown 

 strigfB. Both wings crossed by an ill-defined subbasal, a discal, and a submarginal 

 brown fascia, the two latter on the hindwinsr beius: ano:ulated. Forewinq with the 

 ocellus larger and very prominent. Hindwing with the ocelli also somewhat larger 

 and all very prominent. 



Female. Upperside paler ; mottled with pale ochreous-cinereous strigae, the 

 discal and submarginal fascia more distinct and broader, the ocellus on forewing 

 larger, the ocelli on the hindwing also somewhat larger, the upper one sometimes 

 being obsolete. Underside bi'ighter ochreous-cinereous, marked as in the male. 

 Body above clothed with glossy olivescent-brown hairs, beneath pale ochreous- 

 cinereous ; legs brownish above, cinereous beneath ; palpi clothed in front with 

 blackish-tipt hairs. 



Expanse, c? 2 to 2f , ? 2| inches. 



Drt-season Brood (Plate 107, fig. 2c, (J). 

 Male. Upperside as in wet-season brood, except that the ocelli on the hind- 

 wing are somewhat smaller, and sometimes one or both of the upper are absent; 

 glnndnhir patch and androconia ih.e same. Underside paler and ochreous-cinereous 

 in tint, the brown strigjB somewhat less prominent, the transverse brown fascia3 more 

 defined, and the discal fascia distinctly angulatcd on the hindwing ; the ocellus on 



