24 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



Genus YPTHIMA. 



Tpthima, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett, p. 63 (1816). 



"Wings small, broad : f orewing triangular ; costa arched, apex rounded, exterior 

 margin slightly convex, posterior margin straight ; costal vein short, much swollen 

 at base ; first subcostal branch emitted before end of the cell, second at one-third, 

 third at one-half, fourth and fifth at two-thirds beyond ; upper discocellular angled 

 close to subcostal, concave below, lower concave, radials from the upper and middle 

 angles ; median vein slightly swollen at the base, middle branch from near end of 

 the cell : hindwing broadly oval ; costal vein curved towards the base ; first subcostal 

 branch emitted before end of the cell ; discocellulars oblique, concave, radial from 

 angle of their middle ; middle median branch from near end of the cell ; submedian 

 and internal veins slightly recurved. Body small, slender ; palpi long, slender, first 

 and second joints pilose beneath, third joint long ; legs and antennge slender. 



YPTHIMA SINGALA (Plate 12, Fig. 3, 3a). 

 Yphthima Singala, Felder, Verh. Zool. Bot. Gesc. 1868, p. 283. 



Male. Upperside brown : hindwing with one, sometimes two small indistinct 

 subanal spots encircled with yellow. Underside cinereous, numerously covered with 

 short brown strigee : forewing with transverse indistinct brown discal and marginal 

 band, and a prominent bipupilled ocellus : hindwing with six small well-formed ocelli 

 disposed in regular linear order, the first upper being very minute. Female. 

 Upperside : forewing with a subapical bipupilled ocellus : hindwing with three small 

 subanal ocelli. Underside as in male. 



Expanse, $ Ith, ? 1A inch. 



" Rare. A few specimens only taken in long grass on borders of coffee- 

 plantations at Buselowe, 3000 feet elevation" (Hutchison). 



YPTHIMA THORA (Plate 12, Fig. 4, 4a). 



Male. Upperside brown : forewing with a prominent subapical bipupilled 

 ocellus : hindwing with a small indistinct subanal ocellus. Underside cinereous, 

 numerously covered with short delicate brown strigje : forewing with a very indistinct 

 discal and marginal band, ocellus prominent : hindwing with five very minute ocelli, 

 disposed in linear order. 



Expanse, S li^inch. 



