YPTHIMA. 133 



b' . Underside of wing's not marked with 

 transverse dark fasciae. 

 <r. Apical and posterior ocelli on under- 

 side of hind wing in line Y. lycus, p. 140. 



b' 2 . Apical and posterior ocelli on under 



side of hind wing in echelon Y. inica, p. 145. 



153. Ypthima philomela, Johannsen (Papilio), Amosn. Acad. vi,1764, 



p. 404 ; Linn. (Papilio) Syst. Nat. i, pt. 2, 1767, p. 768. 

 Ypthima tabella, Marshall, in M. # de N. Butt. Ind. i, 1883, 



p. 234; Moore (Thymipa), Lep. Ind. ii, 1893-96, p. 73, pi. 110, 



figs. 2, 2 a, S . 

 Ypthima baldus, JElwes 8f Ediu. (nee Fabr.) Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893. 



p. 14, pi. i, figs. 15 & 16. 



Race indecora. 



Ypthima indecora, Moore, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 238, pi. 12, fig. 7 ; M % 

 <§r de N. Bidt. Ind. i. 1883, p. 218 ; Moore (Thymipa), Lep. Ind. 

 ii, 1893-96, p. 63, pi. 107, figs. 1, 1 a, 1 b, $ . 



Wet-season form. — <5 2 . Upperside brown, terminal margins of 

 wings broadly darker. Pore wing with a slightly oblique bi- 

 pupilled, comparatively large, yellow-ringed, black ocellus near apex. 

 Hind wing with generally two similar but smaller postdiscal poste- 

 rior ocelli. Underside ochraceous white, closely irrorated witb 

 delicate slender transverse brown striae ; both fore and hind wing*, 

 with obscure subterminal transverse brown fasciae ; sometimes 

 wanting. Pore wing with the ocellus as on the upperside, bat 

 with the yellow iris broader, surrounded by an obscure brown 

 ring. Hind wing with six unipupilled similar but smaller ocelli, 

 more or less in echelon in pairs ; tornal ocellus geminate. 

 Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen brown, paler beneath. 



Dry-season form. — $ $ • Upperside similar to the wet-season 

 form but paler, subterminal bands less distinct. Underside also 

 similar, the ground-colour more dusky ochraceous, the brown 

 striae somewhat diffuse ; ocelli on underside miuceri to mere 

 snecks 



Exp. S $ 32-35 mm. (1-27-1*38"). 



Hah. S. India, the Nilgiris and "Wynaad. Described originally 

 from Java. 



Race indecora, Moore, closely resembles the typical form both 

 in the wet- and dry- season varieties, but is constantly larger with 

 larger ocelli. On the upperside in the S the secondary sex-mark 

 on the fore wing is far more clearly defined, and both the fore and 

 hind wings have more or less distinct transverse discal and sub- 

 terminal dark bands in both sexes. Underside : ground-colour from 

 dull ochraceous white in the wet-season form to almost dark 

 ochraceous brown in the dry-season form, both fore and hind 

 wings irrorated with transverse dark brown short striae ; the ocelli 

 as in the typical form, but on the hind wing more distinctly in 

 echelon of twos ; in the dry -season variety these ocelli are reduced 



