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allied to L. armandina, Oberthur,* from Moupin and Western China, 

 from which it differs in the discal fascia of theforewingonthe upperside 

 not being " bordered outwardly with yellowish," and the bands of the 

 hindwing on the underside not being " violet-grey." 



Described from a male taken in Native Sikkim at 10,000 feet, in 

 August, 1895, kindly given to me by Mr. Gr. C. Dudgeon ; and another 

 in Mr. Dudgeon's collection from Gantok, also in Native Sikkim, taken 

 at 7,000 feet in July, 1895. 



3. Ypthima megalia, n. sp., Plate I, Fig. 5, d\ 



Habitat : North Shan States, Upper Burma. 



Expanse: cT, 1-9 inches. 



Description : Male. Upperside, both wings shining hair-brown, with 

 an indistinct submarginal fuscous fascia. Cilia cinereous. Forewing 

 with the usual subapical deep black ocellus bipupilled with silver, 

 outwardly defined with a dull yellow ring. Hindwing with a similar 

 nnipupilled subanal small ocellus. Underside, forewing pale brown, 

 finely and evenly striolated throughout (except narrowly along the 

 inner margin) with white and ochreous of a curious shade ; the ocellus 

 as above but larger, with the pupils metallic pale blue, and the outer 

 yellow ring wider than on the upperside. Hindwing with no trace of 

 ocelli ; striolated as in the forewing, but the white and yellow striolee 

 not so much intermixed, there being an ill-defined broad yellow fascia 

 across the disc from the middle of the costa to the middle of the abdo- 

 minal margin, followed by a still broader bat equally ill-defined whitish 

 fascia, which is broken into broadly on the middle of the outer margin 

 by a large triangular patch of the yellow striolation. 



Y. megalia comes into Group IX of Elwes' Revision of the genus 

 Ypthima, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1893, p. 44, and is nearly allied to 

 Y. megalomma, Butler, and Y. insolita, Leech, both from China. From 

 the former (as figured by Leech in Butt. China,, p. 86, pi. ix, fig. 2, male) 

 it differs in its more elongate (less broad and rounded) wings, and the 

 ocelli of both wings on the upperside very considerably smaller, half 

 the size in fact. The ocelli in Y. megalomma appear to be variable as 

 regards numbers, Mr. Leech's figure shews them as in Y. megalia, but 

 in the type and in two others in Mr. Leech's collection there is an extra 

 ocellus in the forewing on the underside in the first median interspace. 

 Y. megalia differs from Y. insolita, 1. c, pi. ix, fig. 1, male, in also having 

 the ocelli much smaller ; that species on both surfaces has a second 

 ocellus in the first median interspace on the forewing, and three ocelli 

 (otie apical and two anal) on the underside of the hindwing. 



* Delis armandina, Oberthur, Etudes cVEnt., vol. vi, p. 16, n, 8, pi, vii, fig. 6, male 

 (1881) ; Zophoessa armandina, Leech, Butt, from China, Japan, and Corea, p. 43 (1892). 



