84 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



Habitat. — Nilgiri Hills, S. India. 



DrsTraBUTiON. — According to Mr. G. F. Hampson (" MS. Notes ") this is 

 " common on rocky hill sides. It has four broods in the year. Taken at Dun- 

 sandle, Nilgiris, 6700 feet elevation from February to May, and at the Sholur Ghat, 

 6500 feet, in March. Is not found below 5000 feet, and chiefly frequents places on 

 the top of the plateau where sheet-rocks crop out on grass hill sides. It is also 

 found on the Anaymalai Hills, 4300 feet, south of the Palghat Gap in February, 

 flying with K. Yphthimoides." Captain E. Y. "Watson obtained specimens at 

 Coonoor and Ootacamund in August. 



KOLASA YPHTHIMOIDES (Plate 112, figs. 4, 4a, ^ ? ). 



Callerebia Yphthimoides, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lend. 1881, p. 307. 



Ypthima Ypldliimoides, Marshall and de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 230 (1883). Distant, 



Trans. Eiit. Soc. Lond. 1884, p. 49, pi. 3, fig. 4. 

 Yptliima Rohinsoiii, Distant, Annals of Nat. Hist. 1882, p. 406. Marshall and de Niceville, Butt, of 



India, etc. i. p. 229. 



Imago. — ^Male. Upperside uniformly dark olivescent-brown ; cilia cinerescent- 

 brown. Forewing with an obtusely-oval subapical ocellus, bipupilled with silvery- 

 blue and encircled by a very slender dark ochreous outer ring. Rindwing with two 

 small median ocelli pupilled with silvery-blue. Uuderside numerously covered with 

 pale brownish-grey strigse, which are duller and uniformly-disposed on the fore- 

 winof, but on the hindwing the strigas are paler grey and more prominently-disposed 

 in transverse broad fasciae, similar to those in K. Chenui. Foreioing with an ocellus, 

 as above, and slight traces of a submargiual and a discal darker fascia. Hindwing 

 with one, sometimes two, small apical ocelli, two median, and two minute anal 

 ocelli, the two latter being sometimes geminated, each with a single silvery-blue 

 pupil and slender dark ochreous ring. 



Female. Upperside as in the male, except that the outer borders are mottled 

 with pale brownish-grey strigae ; sometimes there is a geminated pair of minute anal 

 ocelli on the hindwing. Underside paler than in the male, the pale strigas and the 

 fasciae being more defined. Body beneath, palpi and legs brown in the male, but 

 brownish-grey in the female ; antennae with reddish tip. 



Expanse, c? 1| to If, ? H to 2 inches. 



Habitat. — Travancore Hills, S. India. 



DisTEiBOTiON.— " Obtained by Mr. Bourdillon at Colathoorpolay Patnas, 4000 

 feet elevation, Travancore, in April." Mr. Fergusson writing from Trevandrum 

 says, " it is to be found on the hills here only on grass land near the tops of the hills. 

 My specimens were taken in two localities — one a small patch of grass about an 

 acre in extent at an elevation of 3500 feet, and the other on a grass hill about 3000 



