TPTIIIMA. 89 
Var. chinensis, var. nov. (Tlato X. fig. 5, J .) The basal two thirds of the wings in both sexes 
is clouded with fuliginous : the apical ocellus of primaries is larger, the iris broader, and the 
small subanal ocellus of secondaries, when present, is nearer the large one than in the 
tj'pe. The under surface is whitish grey, without any ochroous tint, striated with brown ; 
the inner marginal area of primaries is also clouded with fuliginous brown, and the two lower 
ocelli of secondaries are invariably contiguous ; (the ocellus at outer angle of secondaries is 
very much smaller in the male) ; there is no brown submargiual band, and the fringes are 
much paler. In some examples of each sex there is a small ocellus below the apical one of 
primaries, and one or two specimens of the female have the outer half of all the wings irro- 
rated with grey, as in Indian specimens of the same sox. 
Expanse, cj 50 millira., 5 50 millim. 
Occiu's at Kiukiaug iu May, and at Chaug-yaug in August ; but does not 
appear to inhabit Western China. 
According to Maxshall and de Niceville, Y. neimra frequents Nepal, 
Sikkim, Assam, Cachar, Upper Burma ; and specimens were obtained by 
the Yunan Expedition. These last will probably prove to be identical with 
Epinephele i)hania, Oberthiir (Etud. d'Ent. xv. p. 17, pi. 2. fig. 17), also from 
Yunan. 
Ypthima avanta. 
Ypthima avanta, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1874, p. 567; Marshall & de Niceville, 
Butt. Ind. i. p. 218, pi. xvii. fig. 66, c? (1882); Waterliouse, Aid Ident. Ins. ii. 
pi. 179. fig. 6. 
" Upperside dark brown, with an indistinct bipupilled ocellus on the fore wing, and two subanal 
ocelli on hind wing. Underside grey, numerously covered with dark brown narrow striie, 
and crossed with three brown fasciae, the subbasal being indistinct. Fore wing with a bright 
oval ocellus bipupilled with silver. Hind wing with seven small prominent silver-pupilled 
ocelli, the upper third minute, the two anal geminated." {Moore, I. c.) 
" T. avanta closely resembles Y. shujala on the upperside, but has a sexual patch on the fore wing 
of the male, which Y. singala lacks. On the underside the ocellation, too, is somewhat 
similar, but Y. singala almost always lacks the transverse dark fascice, which in Y. avanta 
are conspicuous. From Y. InJecora it differs on the upperside in having the ocelli of the 
hind wing blind, and that of the fore wing small, very indistinct, sometimes i]uite obsolete ; 
and on the underside in having the ocelli distinct (though varying in size in different speci- 
mens), and always prominently pupilled with silver. From Y. phUomela it is distinguished 
by the four lower ocelli on the underside of the hind wing being arranged in linear order, not 
in pairs in echelon." {Marshall ^ KiceviUi', 1. c.) 
I have only received specimens of this species from Chang-yang and Ichang, 
Central China, although it probably occurs in other parts of that country. 
The apical ocellus on upper surface of primaries is usually indistinct and 
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