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NYMPHALID^. 
often entirely absent. One male expands 43 millim., which is unusually 
large for this species. 
According to Marshall and de Niceville, Y. avanta is found in the Western 
Himalayas from April to August. It is common in Kulu, and its range 
extends to Kashmir on the west and to Sikkim on the east. 
Ypthima philomela. 
Pajn/iu pfii/ome/a, Johaiisseiij Amoen. Acad. vi. p. 404 (1764). 
Pajnlio baldus, Fabricius, Syst. Ent., App. p. 829 (1775). 
Yphthima baldus, HewitsoDj Trans. Eut. Soc. Lond. (3) ii. p. 286 (1864). 
Ypthima baldus, Piyer, Rhopalocera Nihonica, p. 30, pi. ix. fig. 3. 
Ypthima philomela, Marshall & de NicevillCj Butt. Ind. i. p. 216 (1882). 
Yphthima argus, Butler, Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond., Zool. p. 56 (1878). 
Ypthima evanescens, Butl. Ann. k Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) vii. p. 134 (1881). 
Male. Brown. Primaries with a bipupillated subapical ocellus ; a patch of darker scales on 
each side of the median nervure. Secondaries have from two to six ocelli. Under surface 
pale greyish white, with numerous fine brown transverse lines and three brown fasciie, 
that nearest the base often indistinct : primaries with ocellus as' above : secondaries with 
six complete ocelli. 
Female. Paler, with a broad whitish band striated with brown on the submarginal area of all the 
wings ; the ocelli, which are similar to those of the male, are set in this band. 
Var. argUSj Eutler. " Ala; supra fuscte ; anticaj ocello subapicali nigro ochreo cincto alboque 
bipupillato ; posticse maris ocellis duobus inter venas apud marginem analem positis ; femiuse 
oeellis tribus uno subapicali minuto. Corpus fuscum. 
" Alac subtus albo-cinerea) fusco-strigosse ; antic;e maris ocello ut supra ; feminaj ocello obscure 
albo ad cella) finem ; posticae ocellis quinque subapicalibus tribusque analibus, uno auali 
bipupillato. Corpus cinereum. Alar. exp. unc. 1|. 
" Differs from Y. baldus, Fab., in having five instead of six ocelli on hind wings. Fore wings : 
costa longer ; female showing an extra ocellus at the end of the cell below, also with a small 
subapical ocellus above." {Butler, I. c.) 
Var. evanescens, Uutler. ' Above like Y. lisandra, below more like Y. zodia ; wings below 
white, (Iciisoly striated witli short brown lines, and crossed before the middle by two sub- 
parallel yellowish stripes, the outer one angulated on the secondaries ; external border also 
regularly yellowish, but paler than the stripes : primaries with a largo subapical yellow-zoned 
bia(-k ocellus, witli two silver pupils ; secondaries with six very minute yellow-zoned black 
ocelli with single silver pupils; these ocelli are arranged as in Y. sldlera. Expanse of wings 
1 inch .5 lines. — Nikko." (Buller, I. c.) 
This species is \ ei y variable both in size and shape ; also as regards the 
number and definition of ocelli, which on the secondaries range from one in 
