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(Butt. Ind. 227) from " Pegu, in May and June, and taken by Captain C. H. E. 

 Adamson at Gyne," in January. Dr. J. Anderson found it " very common in 

 the Mergui Archipelago, from December to March." (J. Linn.. Soc. Zool. 1886, 

 32.) 



Distribution Outside Indian Area. — Mr. W. L. Distant (Rhop. Malayana, p. 5) 

 describes and figures a female of the wet-season form from Malacca, Malay Penin- 

 sula. "We also possess it from Malacca. Mr. Distant also records it from Sumatra 

 and Java, on the authority of Herr Snellen. Tbe latter locality is doubtless an 

 error, for this species, as -we possess several specimens received from Herr Snellen, 

 labelled, " philomela," of Eubner, and all of them have six ocelli, disposed in three 

 pairs, on the underside of the hindwing, and are undoubted philomela of Linnaeus, 

 which latter species is quite distinct, and belongs to another division of the 

 Ypthimffi group. 



Of the illustrations of Y. Hubneri on our Plate No. Ill, fig. 1 represents 

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

 Calcutta males of the wet-season brood, and fig. Ic, a Nilgiri female of the same 

 brood; figs. Id, e, represent the male and female of the dry-season brood, these 

 being the type specimens of " Howra," fig. f is from one of the dry-season males 

 reared by Mr. de Niceville in Calcutta ; fig. g is a male, and fig. h the female 

 Mahabeshwar type specimens of jocularia, kindly lent by Colonel Swinhoe. 



YPTHIMA CEYLONICA. 



Wet-Season Brood (Plate 112, figs. 2, 2a, ^ ? ). 



Yphthima Oeylonica, Hewitson, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1865, p. 288, pi. 18, figs. 14, 15, ^ . 

 Tpthima CeyJonica, Butler, Catal. Satyr. Brit. Mus. p. 152 (1868). Moore, Lap. of Ceylon, i, p. 25, 

 pi. 12, figs. 5, 5a, ? (1880). Marshall and de Mcevillp, Butt, of India, i. p. 228 (1883). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside brown ; cilia of forewing cinerescent-brown, of hind- 

 wing white. Foreiving with a prominent large apical bipupilled ocellus, and a few 

 very slightly-defined siibmarginal pale cinerescent strigee. Hindwing with the lower 

 half pure white, the extreme outer edge-line and a contiguous submarginal sinuous 

 line being dark brown ; bordering the latter are two small black median ocelli, and, 

 generally, a smaller anal ocellus, each with a slightly-defined minute white pupil, 

 ochreous ring, and then a brown ring ; sometimes a small apical black spot is also 

 present. Underside cinerescent-white, purest white on the hindwing ; sparsely 

 covered with delicate transverse brown strig^, which are much less numerous, more 

 slender, and more widely separated on the discal area of the hindwing. Forewing 

 with the ocellus larger than above, broadly pale ochreous ringed, and outwardly by 

 a brown ring, the latter ring broadly extending below the ocellus, and descending 

 as a brown streak to the posterior margin ; a slightly-defined discal and submarginal 

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