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plated singly between the nor vales, and the sixth and seventh together are situate between the third 

 median nervule and submedian nervure, and are surrounded by one outer greyish margin ; marginal lines 

 and fringe us in anterior wings. Body ami legs coucoloroLis with win^s ; antenna; itull uchraeeous, narrowly 

 fuscous beneath ; club brighter and paler, broadly black beneath near apex. 



Male with two long tufts of pale hairs sittiati- :tl subcostal base of posterior wings. 



Exp. winf^H 14 millim. 



Hah. — Malay Peninsula; Malacca (Brit. Mus.) — Java icolls. Moore and Snellen). — Sumatra icolL 

 Moore}. 



This species appears to have a somewhat restricted area of distribution. Mr. Butler has 

 described and figured,* under the name of Mijmlem nautilus, a form which he justly states is 

 "closely allied to M. jatumhmtt" This insect was taken in Malacca (where M, junnrduiui is 

 found) by Lieut. Roberts, in whose collection the type remains. 



Genus YPTHIMA. 



Yfthima, Hiibuer, Verz, bek. Schraett. p. 03 (18101 ; Westw., Gen. Diarn. Lop, p. tffli (1851); Triiatu, Klmp. 

 Afr. Austr. p. 205 (1866) ; Moore, Lop. Ceyl. i. p, 24 f 1881 1. 



Wings short and broad. Anterior wings subtriangular, with the costa arched and the apex rounded ; 

 the outer margin entire anil slightly convex : inner margin nearly strri-lit : <-«-■-— r-tl nrrvmv -Iv 

 swollen at base; first subcostal nervule only emitted before end of eell ; upper disco -cellular nervule anglrd 

 inwardly near base, from thence concave, lower one also concave ; median nervure slightly swollen at base. 

 Posterior wings ovate, the costa strongly rounded and deflexed to apex, tlie outer margin entire ; median 

 uervules well separated at their bases, the iirst emitted from about end of cell ; disco-cellular nervulee 

 oblique, slightly concave, the lower one longest- 



This genus has a wide area of dispersal ; it is found in Western, Southern, and Eastern 

 Africa (as far north as Abyssinia), is represented in Madagascar, is not uncommon in Tropical 

 Asia, and found on that continent as far north as Japan, distributed throughout the Malayan 

 Archipelago, and extending to Australia. Our knowledge of the genus is slowly increasing* 

 Prof, AV est, wood, in 1351, + could enumerate only ten species; in 18f>o Mr, Hewitson * mono- 

 graphed the genus, and included twenty -four species therein ; since that time many more have 

 beeu described, and the present nnmber of reputed species is little short of forty. We know 

 little of their habits. According to Gapt. Lang, § the Himalayan species are ** of very feeble 

 flight, IV^pieiiting hanks, hedges, and grassy land." In Ceylon Mr. Hutchison || describes one 

 species as taken only in long grass on borders oi cofiee-planiations at an elevation of 3000 feet, 

 and another as being very common among the roadside grasses and weeds, its flight short, 

 "constantly settling down on leaves, or in grass/' 



1. Ypthima corticaria. (Tab. VL, fig. 8.) 



Yfirltfitifi mrtitarur, 11a tier ♦ Trans. Linn. See. aer. 2, Zool. vol. i, p, 587, n. 8 ^1877). 



Mule and female. Wings above fuliginous-brown. Anterior win^s with a large an borate paler fnsna, 

 placed transversely on apical half, and Oil which is a large ocellated spot, which is black, with two inner 



* Aau, k Mai;. Nut. Hist. xx. p. 40i, pi. ix. f, 7 <IHU7>. f Gen. J>inru. Lep. pp. 395, WO, 



I Trans. Ent. Soc. ser. a. vol. ii. p. '288. § Proc, ZooL Soc. 1866, p. fi<^. 



Moon's Lt-p. C*yl. i. pp. '24 t ±'t. 



