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In dealing with Y. vwfsc/iulski/i, Ehvcs and I^dwards write — " The insect 

 w^hich we have taken to represent this name agrees in every respect with 

 the figure of Menotries above cited, except that the latter does not show 

 the velutinous patch on the disk of tlic fore wing. It would be a mere 

 waste of time to attempt to trace the full synonymy of this species, as we can 

 only separate it with certainty from its allies by the form of the clasp ; but 

 we have treated ampliitltca. Men., as a synonym in deference to Staudinger's 

 opinion as expressed in Rom. Mem. vi. p. 203. Hah. Nagasaki, Japan; 

 Fusan, Korea [Leech) ; Kiukiang [Pratt) ; Shanghai [Fryer).'" 



Staudingcr records Y. motsclnihkyi from Amurland and expresses his 

 opinion that nareda, Kollar, from Northern India, is a local form of that 

 species. 



Ypthiina perfecta. (Plate X. fig. 7, 6 .) 



Ypthima motschulskyi, var. perfecta ,'Le.ec\\ (ante, p. 88). 



Ypthima perfecta, Ehves & Edwards, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1893, p. 19. 



This insect, which I described and figured as a form of Y. motschulsJcyi. is 

 now considered by Elwes and Edwards a distinct species. They write of it : — 

 " This is distinguished from its allies by the well-defined straight-sided ocellar 

 space on the underside of the fore wing, which is open both to the costa and 

 the inner margin, and the irregular pale band on the underside of the hind 

 wing, but most certainly by the different form of the clasp." 



This species is common in Western and Central China. It varies con- 

 siderably in size and number of ocelli. In typical examples there is only one 

 ocellus on each wing, in some specimens there is a small ocellus beneath or 

 adjoining that at apex of primaries, and the number of ocelli on secondaries 

 ranges from one (in the type) to four on the under surface ; the usual number 

 is one on the primaries and three on the secondaries, but they may be 

 increased to two on the primaries and four on the secondaries. 



Ypthima obscura. 



Ypthima obscura, Elwes & Edwards, Trans. Eut. Soc. Lond. 1893, p. 17. 



Male. Upperside fuliginous brown, with pale grey fringes ; ocellus of the fore wing barely indi- 

 cated : one well-defined subanal ocellus on the hind wing, the dark velutinous patch on the 

 fore wing indistinct. Underside greyish white, the striolation moderately close and fine, the 

 latter on the distal half of the fore wing coalescing to form a brown cloud arising in the 



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