130 NYMPHALID^. 



brown ; the discal bands of spots are pale ochraceous with paler 

 centres, the band on the fore wing anteriorly widens as in the 

 typical form, surrounding a dusky spot, but the spot is often 

 white- centred. Underside as in the typical form, but much darker, 

 especially the hind wing, more thickly irrorated with brown scales ; 

 these in the fore wing form irregular, short, narrow transverse 

 marks in the cell ; the discal bands white on both fore and hind 

 wing. 



Exp. c? 2 42-50 mm. (1-68-2-00"). 



Bab. Sikhim at high elevations ; the Chumbi Valley. 



Genus YPTHIMA. 



Ypthima, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. 1816, p. 63; M. fy de N. 



Butt. Ind. i, 1883, p. 212 • Moore, pt., Lep. Ind. ii, 1893-96, p. 75. 

 Thymipa, Kolasa, Nadiria, Pandima, Lohana, et Dallacha, Moore, 



Lep. Ind. ii, 1893-96, pp. 58, 82, 85, 86, 92, & 94. 



Type, Y. philomela, Johannsen, from Java. 



Range. Africa; the whole of the I ado-Malayan Region, extend- 

 ing to China and Australia. 



rf $ • Fore wing triangular, costa widely arched ; apex rounded 

 or subacute ; termen straight, tornus rounded, dorsum straight ; 

 cell comparatively very broad, of moderate length, about half length 

 of wing ; upper discocellular about half length of middle, lower 

 longest, concave and oblique; veins 10 and 11 emitted after apex 

 of cell, 11 and median vein considerably inflated at base. Hind 

 wing ovate, costa and termen arched ; dorsum straight, slightly 

 emarginate towards tornus ; cell long, well over half length of 

 wing ; discocellulars very oblique ; vein 8 bordering costa to apex 

 of wing. Antennae slender, short, less than half length of fore 

 wing, club very slight ; palpi long, slender, oblique, with ante- 

 riorly a fringe of long hairs; eyes naked; intermediate and 

 posterior femora scaled, not hairy beneath, longer than tibiae. 

 Male secondary sex-mark present in some of the forms in the shape 

 of a patch of specialized scales on the upperside of the fore wing 

 below and above the median nervure. 



Key to the forms of Ypthima # . 



A . Underside of hind wing with two subapical 

 ocelli. 

 a. The ocelli on underside of hind wing in 

 pairs in echelon. 

 a'. Expanse under 50 mm. 



a 2 . Underside of fore wing without 

 subbasal transverse fascia. 

 a 3 . Two subapical ocelli on underside 

 of hind wing coalescent, anterior 

 one minute. Expanse 32-35 mm. Y. philomela, p. 133. 



* Does not nclude Y. megalia, de Niceville (p. 146), which is unknown to me. 



