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brown fascia. Hindwing with a prominent black apical ocellus, two median and a 

 bipupilled anal ocellus, each distinctly formed with an ochreous ring and slender 

 outer brown ring. 



Female. Upperside as in the male, except that the ocelli are somewhat larger, 

 and those on the hindwing slightly blurred by contiguous brown strigse, some few 

 strigse also being visible across the white area. Underside more densely packed 

 with brown strigEe than in the male, on both wings, the ocelh being the same, but 

 very prominent. Body beneath white ; palpi brown above, edged with white, the 

 frontal hairs brown and white ; legs brown above, white beneath ; antennae dark 

 brown, annulated with white, tip reddish. 



Dry-Season Brood. 



Male. Upperside slightly paler brown. Hindwing with the marginal and 

 sinuous submarginal brown line less defined ; two ill-defined median minute ocelli. 

 Underside also slightly paler. Hindwing with the apical and lower ocelli all very 

 minute. 



Female. Upperside paler. Ocelli on the hindwing with the marginal and 

 sinuous submarginal brown line very slenderly defined. Underside paler, some- 

 what ochreous-white, the strigae paler, and the ocelli on hindwing very minute. 



Expanse, S Ij^g to Ij-g, ? l^-^ to l^^^, inches. 



Habitat. — Ceylon ; S. India ; Orissa. 



DrsTEiBUTiON. — In Ceylon, according to Captain F. J. Hutchison, it is *' very 

 common at Galle and Colombo, among grass and weeds by the road side. Flight 

 short, constantly settling down on leaves, or in the grass " (Lep. Ceylon, i. 25). 

 Mr. F. M. Mackwood notes that it is " very abundant from the level of the coast to 

 the highest ranges, and at all times oF the year." Major J. W. Yerbury recently 

 obtained the wet-season brood at Trincomaliin July and September. " Till recently 

 it was believed to be confined to the Island of Ceylon, but it has now been taken in 

 Travancore by Mr. H. Fergusson, and was found extremely common in Orissa by 

 Mr. W. C. Taylor. Mr. Kirby records it from Madras " (Butt. Ind. i. 228). Mr. F. 

 C. Hampson (J. A. S. Beng., 1888, 350) obtained it in the " Nilgiris at 2000 to 4000 

 feet elevation on the Southern Slopes, where it takes the place of Y. Hubneri of the 

 Northern Slopes ; very common ; March ; August." Lieut. E. Y. Watson has 

 obtained it at Berhampore in Gangam, having taken the wet-season brood in 

 September, 1887, and the dry-season brood in February of the same year. 



Genus KOLASA. 

 Imago. — Forewing comparatively longer, less triangular, and the exterior margin 

 less oblique than in typical Ypthima (Hubneri). Hindwing longer, narrower, exterior 



