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feet; here tliey were fairly abundant" (Butt. India, i. 230). Mr. W. L. Distant 

 (Ann. N. H. 1882, 406) records specimens obtained by Mr. F. E. Robinson, in the 

 Pulni Hills. Mr. G. F. Hampson possesses specimens taken in the Anaymalai 

 Hills, at 4500 feet elevation iu February. 



Genus NADIRIA. 



Imaoo. — Wings broader than in typical Ypthima. Forewing with the costa 

 more arched, subcostal and median vein much swollen ; cell broader. No Andro- 

 CONIA. Eindiving with the costa more arched ; cell broader ; three linearly-disposed 

 apical ocelli, and two anal ocelli on the underside. Antennae with a shorter and 

 somewhat stouter club. 



Type. — N. Bolanica. 



NADIRIA BOIANICA (Plate 112, figs. 5, 5a, ^ ? ). 



Tpthima Bolanica, Marshall, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1882, p. 759, S. Marshall and de Niceville, 

 Butt, of ludia, etc. i. p. 231 (1883). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark purpurescent-brown. Cilia brown with a distinct 

 whitish-cinereous inner liue. Foreiving with the subcostal and median vein very 

 tumid at the base ; a prominent large subapical black ocellus with two silvery- 

 blue pupils, a yellowish ring and an outer brown ring, the surroundino- border 

 mottled with lilacine-grey and then edged by the darker brown curved continuous 

 submarginal and discal fascia. Hindwing with a slightly-apparent darker brown 

 submarginal line, a single small prominent black subanal ocellus between the two 

 lower medians, pupilled with silvery-blue and yellow ringed, sometimes the two minute 

 silvery-blue dots of the geminated anal ocellus of the underside are also visible. 



Underside whitish-cinereous, thickly covered with purpurescent ochreous-brown 

 strig^, which are broadest on the basal area. Foreiving with the subapical ocellus 

 as on upperside, but more prominent, and the broad brown curved- submarginal and 

 the oblique-discal fascia broadly confluent above the posterior angle ; two short ill- 

 defined brown bands also across end of the cell. Hindwing crossed by a rather 

 broad brown excurved discal band, which is slightly angulated posteriorly, and an ill- 

 defined submarginal wavy fascia ; three upper Hnearly-disposed slightly decreasing 

 ocelli, disposed between tlie upper subcostal and upper median veinlet, and a some- 

 what larger subanal ocellus and a smaller geminated anal pair, all being prominently 

 oval-pupiiled with silvery-blue and with a dark narrow yellow ring. 



Female. Upperside as in the male, except that the ocellus on both wings is 

 larger. Underside also as in the male, the ocelli larger, more prominent, and with 

 brighter yellow ring. 



Expanse, c? In, to I/qj ? li~o to I^-q inch. 



