SATYEINiE. 
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wider range, — Ypthima Asterope inhabiting all Tropical Africa and a 
great part of Southern Asia, and Melanitis Leda extending throughout 
the Old- World Tropics. 
Genus YPTHIMA. 
Fpthima, Westw., Gen. Diurn. Lep., ii. p. 394 (185 1). 
Yphthima, Hewitson, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 3rd Ser., ii. p. 283 (1865), 
Monograph. 
Imago. — Head small, hairy in front ; eyes smooth ; antennce short, 
slender, with an elongate, narrow, but distinct club ; palpi long, slender, 
divergent, thickly clothed inferiorly with long bristly hairs, except the 
terminal joint, which is long, slender, and with only a few short hairs. 
Thorax short, narrow ; downy and hairy beneath. Fore-wings with 
apex rather pronounced ; hind-margin entire ; costal nervure much, 
median nervure slightly, swollen at base ; discoidal cell short, broad, 
abruptly sub-truncate, the middle and lower disco-cellular nervules form- 
ing a slightly-curved continuous line ; first subcostal nervule originating 
just before extremity of cell, second at a considerable distance beyond it. 
Eind-ivings much rounded externally, entire ; discoidal cell short, broad, 
obliquely truncated at extremity. Fore-legs in the S extremely small, 
quite concealed among the hair of the prothorax, reduced to one 
rounded piece attached to the coxa ; in the 5 small (but very much 
larger than in the c?), of the ordinary development, slender, scaly. 
Middle and hind legs rather short, slender, clothed with scales, the 
femora slightly hairy beneath. 
Abdomen short, slender. 
This genus is mainly Asiatic, seventeen of the twenty-two recorded 
species being natives of Asia or the Indo-Malayan Islands. Two of these 
(y. Asterope, King, and Y. JVareda, KoUar) extend to Africa, where 
they are widely distributed, and two others (Y. Batesii, Felder, from 
Madagascar, and Y. Itonia, Hewits., from the White Nile) appear to 
be confined to the Ethiopian Eegion. The three remaining species 
inhabit Australia or the Austro-Malayan Islands. The only species 
that enters the South- African Sub-Region is the very widely-ranging 
Y. Asterope} 
The Ypthimce are small and dull-coloured butterflies, usually of 
an unvaried obscure greyish-brown on the upper side, bearing a well- 
marked bipupillate black ocellus near the apex of the fore-wings, and 
from one to six smaller unipupillate ocelli towards the hind-margin of 
the hind-wings. The under side is closely hatched with minute, irregular, 
short, dark and light lines, and the ocelli on it are usually more con- 
spicuous than on the upper side. 
The extraordinary atrophy of the fore-legs of the male, and the 
^ Professor Westwood (App. to Oates's " Matabeleland," 1881, p. 350) gives Y. Nareda 
as having been taken by the late Mr. Gates near the Victoria Falls of the Zambesi River. 
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