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THYMIPA SAKRA (Plate 109, figs. 2, 2a, b,cJ ? ). 

 Jjf>/(i/;ma (Saftra, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. East India Compy. i. p. 236 (1857). HewitsoD, Trans. 



Ent. Soc. Lond. 1864, p. 290, pi. 18, fig. 18. 

 Tpthima SaJcra, Butler, Catal. Satyr. Brit. Mus. p. 149 (1868). Marshall and de NiceTille, Butt, of 



India, etc. i. p. 232 (1883). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside deep olivescent-brown ; both wings with a broad 

 dai'ker marginal band, which is slightly bordered inwardly by a few pale ochreous 

 strig«, and the hindwing with a very slender pale cinerescent-ochreous extreme outer 

 marginal line. Cilia brownish-cinereous, Foreiring with a prominent subapical 

 ocellus bipupilled with silvery-blue, and with a slender ochreous outer ring, and, in 

 some few specimens, a very minute ocellus is present between the middle and lower 

 medians, being more prominent on the underside ; glandular jJatch mdistincilj defined, 

 clothed with rather short broad dentate-tipt scales and with a few intervening black 

 dndroconia, which have a short broad dilated-bulbous base, hair-like end and tassel- 

 tip. Hindwing with two prominent median ocelli, the lower one the largest, and, 

 generally, there is also a small anal ocellus, and sometimes a minute apical ocellus, 

 which latter is also occasionally as large as the upper median ocellus. Underside 

 olivescent-ochreous, densely covered throughout with uniformly-dispnsed dark 

 olive scent-brown strigse. Foreioing with the ocellus, as above, very prominent and 

 ringed with bright ochreous and bipupilled with sUvery-blue. Bindwing with a 

 very prominent large subapical geminated pair, bipupilled, both being encompassed 

 in one outer bright ochreous ring ; two median ocelli, and a large geminated anal 

 bi-pupilled ocellus. 



Female. "With somewhat broader wings than in the male. Upperside as in 

 the male, except that the outer discal area of both wings is broadly more con- 

 spicuously studded with cinerescent-ochreous strigee. Underside as in the male. 

 Body beneath, palpi and legs beneath pale cinerescent-ochreous ; legs above 

 brown ; hairs of palpi whitish tipt ; antennge dusky brown, annulated with white, 

 tip reddish. 



Expanse, ^ 2 to 2\, ? 2f inches. 



Habitat. — B. Himalayas. 



Distribution. — Typical Sakra is confined to the Eastern Himalayas. Mr. H. J. 

 Elwes (Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, 326) records it as " the commonest species of the 

 genus in Sikkim, at from 4000 to 8000 feet elevation, and occurs as low as 2000 

 feet, from March to November. It is one of the commonest roadside insects in 

 Sikkim among grass and bushes." 



THYMIPA ATISTENI (Plate 109, figs. 3, 3a, (? ? ). 

 Tpthima Sakra, Marshall and de Niceville, Butt, of India, i. pi. 17, fig. 67, (J. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside similar to typical Sakra. Underside densely covered 



