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YPTHIMA CEYLONICA (Plate 12, Fig. 5, 5a). 

 Yphthima Ceylonica, Hewitson, Trans. Eat. Soc. 1865, p. 288, pi. 18, f. 14, 15. 



Male and female. Upperside brown : forewing with a large apical bipupilled 

 ocellus : hindwing white on the exterior half, with two central submarginal ocelli and 

 a third smaller imperfect ocellus at anal angle, a brown sinuous marginal line and an 

 even outer line. Underside cinereous-white, sparsely covered with delicate brown 

 strigge, which are less numerous on the hindwing : forewing with the ocellus more 

 elongated than above and brown bordered • hindwing with one apical and three lower 

 ocelli. 



Expanse, $ 1t%, ? 1^^ inch. 



Very common at Galle and Colombo among grass and weeds by the roadside. 

 Flight short, constantly settling down on leaves or in grass" (Hutchison). 



Genus ELYMNIAS. 

 Elymnias, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 37 (1816) ; Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1871, p. 519. 



Wings short, broad ; forewing triangular ; costal margin very convex, apex 

 acute, exterior margin slightly oblique and sinuous, posterior margin slightly convex ; 

 male with a patch of thickened adpressed scales above submedian vein ; costal vein 

 much swollen at its base, extending to middle of the costa; subcostal arched near 

 base, first and second branches emitted before end of the cell, third trifid ; cell 

 broad, short; discocellulars oblique, upper angled, lower concave; upper radial from 

 lower angle ; upper and middle median branches emitted from lower end of the cell ; 

 submedian bent near the base : hindwing subtriangular, anterior margin ver^^ 

 convex, exterior margin convex, sinuous, angled or caudate in middle ; costal vein 

 short looped at its base and emitting a spur upward ; first subcostal emitted at half 

 length of the cell, second from end of cell and extending to apex; cell short and 

 broad ; upper discocellular erect, lower concave, radial from their angle ; two upper 

 median branches from end of the cell. Body slender; palpi long, slender, pilose 

 above ; legs slender, squamose ; antennae very slender. 



ELYMNIAS FRATERNA (Plate 13, Fig. 1 a, h). 



Elymnias fr at erna, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1871, p. 520, pi. 42, f. 3, $. 



Male. Upperside dark purple-brown: forewing with exterior margin shghtly 



fulvous; an obhque subapical indistinct blue maculated fascia: hindwing with a 



broad fulvous marginal band having paler centres between the veins. Underside 



dark purphsh-ferruginous, a triangular apical space and outer borders broadly 



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