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Psyche 
[Sept -Dec. 
Neonympha pyracmon Butl. 
Primaries: with full evenly rounded termen; secondaries: 
termen sinuate, with slight projection on Cu x in both sexes, but 
the wing comparatively small and round (i.e. not as developed 
as in the next species) . 
Male upperside: velvety brown, i.e. of a smoother and 
lighter color than maniola or dorothea , with dull cinereous, in- 
stead of fuscous, cilia. Secondaries: second discal visible as a 
wavy dark fuscous line margined outwardly with fulvous red; 
praeterminal spots rimmed with the same bright hue (very 
different from the pale aureoles of maniola ); clot of similar 
fulvous red tint above Cu 2 , corresponding to triangular diffu- 
sion of subterminal bar beneath. 
Androconial mark: short and narrow, much smaller than in 
dorothea , with deeply sinuate outer edge, its crests traversed 
by the veins; only just reaching second discal at these points; 
consisting of three patches (in Cu 2 , CUi and M 3 ) decreasing 
upwards, roughly trapezoid in shape but with outer sides 
deeply scooped; and of a very slight crescent (instead of 
triangle) in cell R + M with its convexity against cross vein 
and reaching down to about level of Cui. (See fig. 4.) 
Female upperside: less differentiated from male than in 
dorothea , with similar to male but broader red rims, red blot 
and red margin to wavy second discal on warm brownish 
ground in secondaries; primaries with distinct reddish second 
discal. 
Male and female, underside: both wings smooth greyish 
ochreous with a suggestion of olivaceous and very sparse striae. 
Primaries: lines running subparallel to each other and termen; 
all three comparatively thick, of a clear fulvous red on both 
wings; praeterminal dots blended into a continuous fulvous 
red line. Secondaries: lines, especially second discal, extraor- 
dinarily developed, continuous, broad, clearly displaying their 
mellow fulvous red tint; second discal so strongly toothed 
outwardly in its bold course (essentially of a different, direct, 
type than in dorothea or maniola where its outward deviation 
in M x causes the eye to miss its connection with the second 
discal of primaries) up to costa, where it connects with the 
second discal of primaries, that it interferes with the marginal 
markings as it projects terminally along veins Cu 2 , Cu 1? M 2 , 
