146 NYMPHALID^. 



Western and Central India ; the Deccan ; Burma ; extending to 

 China on the east, and to Arabia, Aden, Nubia and Abyssinia on 

 the west. 



174. Ypthima megalia, de Niceville, J. A. S. B. 1897, p. 546, pi. 1, 



<S . " Upper side : both wings shining hair-brown, with an in- 

 distinct subinarginal fuscous fascia; cilia cinereous. Fore wing 

 with the usual subapical deep black ocellus bipupilled with silver, 

 outwardly defined by a dull yellow ring. Hind wing with a 

 similar unipupilled subanal small ocellus. Underside : fore wing 

 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 blue and the outer yellow ring wider than on the upper- 

 side. Hind wing with no trace of ocelli, striolated as on the fore 

 wing, but the white and yellow striolse not so much intermixed, 

 there being an ill-defined broad yellow fascia across the disc from 

 middle of costa to middle of abdominal margin, followed by a still 

 broader but equally ill-defined whitish fascia, which is broken 

 into broadly in the middle of the outer margin by a large tri- 

 angular patch of the vellow striolation." 



Exp. " S 1*9 inches " (49 mm.). 



Hab. Northern Shan States, Upper Burma. 



" Described from a single example" {de Mceville). 



Unknown to me. 



Genus EREBIA. 



Erebia, Balm. Kong. Vet.-Akad. Handl. xxxvii, 1816, p. 58 ; M. Si- 

 de N. Butt. Ind, i, 1883, p. 239, pt. 



Callerebia, Butler, A. M. N. H. (3) xx, 1867, p. 217 ; M. <§■ de N. 

 Butt. Ind. i, 1883, p. 243, pt. ; Moore, Lep. Ind. ii, 1893-96, 

 p. 96, pt. 



Paralasa, pt, Moore, Lep. 2nd. ii, 1893, p. 103. 



Type, E. ligea, Linn., from Europe. 



Bange. Palaearctic Region, and in India the Himalayas at high 

 elevations. 



Most of the Indian forms have been arranged under Butler's 

 genus Callerebia, but the structural differences between Callerebia 

 and Erebia are very slight, and the chief differential characters, 

 viz., the shape of the hind wing and of the antennae, are bridged 

 over by the Siberian E. parmenis, Bceb., on the one hand, and the 

 Indian forms E. mani, E. Jcalinda and E. shallada on the other. 

 It seems therefore to me that no good purpose can be served by 

 separating the Indian and European forms under different genera. 

 The characters given below have been drawn up from the Indian 

 forms. 



cT $ . Eore wing broadly triangular or narrow ; costa strongly 



