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and discal brownisli fascia, on the underside of both sexes, are both angulated in 

 their course across the wings ; -whereas in Savara, they are straight, and in 

 Boheriyi, the discal fascia is scarcely traceable, the subbasal fascia being quite 

 obsolete. 



Section 2. 

 Ocelli on underside of hindwing placed in linear series. 



THYMIPA NIK^A (Plate 109, figs. 1, la, ^). 



Yptliima Nikcea, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1874, p. 567. Marshall and de Niceville, Butt, of 

 India, etc. i. p. 232 (1883). Waterhouse, Aid to the Identif. of Ins. pi. 179, fig. 8, ? . 



Tpthima Sakra, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond, 1866, p. 359 ; Annals of Xat. Hist. 1888, p. 136 ; tw.c 

 Moore. 



Imago. — Male. Smaller than T. Sahra. Upperside. Both wings with smaller 

 and less prominent ocelli — these being about half the size ; with two median ocelli 

 on the hindwing, sometimes one only (the lower) being present ; marginal band less 

 defined and narrow; glayidular patch very indistinctly defined, clothed with more or 

 less short broad scales with serrate-tips, interspersed with a very few long black 

 androconia, which have an elongated broad base, hair-like end and tassel-tip. 

 Underside duller, pale cinerescent-ochreous ; more densely covered with brown 

 strigse, especially on the forewing. Both wings with a well-defined slender pale 

 ochreous extreme marginal line, and the forewing with traces of a broad discal and a 

 marginal bi'own fascia ; ocelli smaller, the apical geminated pair on the hindwing 

 has, generally, separated black centres and intervening portion of the yellow ring, 

 sometimes the upper median ocellus is also absent. 



Female. Upperside paler brown ; extreme marginal slender pale line on the 

 hindwing distinct ; discal area studded with pale strigsB. Underside also paler than 

 in male, more cinerescent in tint, the apical geminated-ocellus on the hindwing 

 somewhat larger. 



Expanse, c? ? 1 H) ^^o 2 inches. 



Habitat. — N. W. Himalayas. 



Distribution.— Major J. "W. Yerbury (Ann, N. H. 1888, 136) records it as 

 being " common on the lower slopes of Thundiani above Kala Pani ; and a few were 

 taken al Murree and at Dewal, in August and September." Major H. B. Hellard 

 took it at " Simla, Masuri, and in Kashmir, from June to October" (MS. Xotes). 

 Col. A. M. Lang, in his MS. Notes records it from the " Simla Hills and Lower 

 Kunawar, in June and July." Mr. W. Doherty (Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, 

 119) obtained it in "Kumaon generally, at 3000 to 11,000 feet, being common in 

 the higher regions. 



