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N. fuelleborni Thurau (29 a) has the eye-spot area on the forewing pure white and the light spot at the apex fuelleborni • 
of the cell on the hindwing is wanting, but otherwise it agrees almost entirely with jordani. German East Africa. 
N. parallelopupillata Karsch (29 a, b) differs from the other species in having the white pupils in P ara,lr, °- 
the eye-spot of the forewing placed directly behind one another, so that a line drawn through them would ' v 
intersect the hindmargin. The hindwing on both surfaces has yellow-ringed eye-spots in cellules 2 and 3 
and beneath in addition an eye-spot in cellule 6, but cellule 1 c has two white dots and 4 and 5 each 
have one. Usambara. 
15. Genus: \ptliiiiia Him. 
Small, delicate-winged species, only differing from the other genera of the group in having the median 
vein of the forewing thickened at the base. The forelegs of the c? are extremely small. As in the two 
preceding genera the forewing has before the apex a large bi-pupilied eye-spot in cellules 4 and 5. The 
under surface of the hindwing is nearly always clouded or distinctly striated. 
The genus occurs in all the warmer parts of the Old World and is also represented in the confines 
of the Palearctic Region. In the Ethiopian Region comparatively few species occur on the continent; the 
majority are confined to Madagascar. Concerning the habits and the early stages of Ypthima cf. vol. I, 
p. 91, and vol. IX, p. 28G. From the Palearctic Region 30 forms are known, from the Indo-Australian 120; 
cf. vol. I, p. 91—93, pi. 34, and vol. IX, p. 286—294, pi. 99. 
First Group. 
The antenna reaches at least to the apex of the cell on the forewing. The eye-spots of both wings with red, red- 
yellow or orange-yellow ring. Species from Madagascar. 
Y. goudoti Mab. Wings above dark brown, margins entire; the forewing in cellule 2 with a small, goudoti. 
white-pupilled eye-spot, its broad red-yellow ring forming with the ring of the anterior eye-spot a large oval 
area; hindwing above with 2 or 3 eye-spots broadly ringed with red-yellow. The wings beneath grey, rather 
sparsely irrorated and striated with brown; the eye-spots of the forewing as above; the hindwing beneath 
entirely without eye-spots. 
Y. tamatavae Bdv. Distal margin of the hindwing undulate; wings above dark brown; forewing tamatavae. 
without eye-spot in cellule 2; the red-yellow ring of the eye-spot in cellules 4—5 is as broad as the diameter 
of the black part or broader; the hindwing above with contiguous eye-spots in cellules 2 and 3. Forewing 
beneath at the costal and distal margins striated and more or less spotted with grey; the hindwing beneath 
grey, striated with brown and with irregular dark brown spots, at the middle a large one which is continued 
as an irregular transverse band almost to the inner margin; in this band at the base of vein 5 is placed a 
sharply ^prominent whitish yellow spot; eye-spots are wanting. 
Y. zanjuga Mab. (29 b) is very similar to the preceding species and has like the latter a dark sub- xanjuga. 
marginal : line on both wings above. Reneath it only differs in the distinct transverse lines in the cell of 
the fore wing, the more uniformly marbled hindwing without larger black-brown spots and in the absence of 
the light spot at the base of vein 5; the eye-spots are represented by black dots. 
Y. argyrina Mab. has the margins of the wings entire and is smaller than the two preceding, but argyrina. 
otherwise closely resembles them above. Reneath it differs from all other species in the numerous angular 
silvery spots on the hindwing; these spots bound a dark brown median band on both sides and also form a 
submarginal transverse row, proximally to which are placed in an almost straight row 4 black, white-pupilled 
eye-spots, narrowly ringed with red-yellow, in cellules 1 c—3 and 6; the spot in cellule lc is bi-pupilled; 
the forewing beneath is of a uniform ground-colour, not clouded, and with some silvery spots only between 
the apex and the eye-spot. 
Y. dyscola Mab. (28 f, 29 c) has the margins of the wings entire and is above marked almost entirely dyscola. 
as the preceding species, the red-yellow rings of the eye-spots being very broad and the eye-spots of the 
hindwing confluent; both wings, however, without dark submarginal line. Forewing beneath uniform dark 
brown, only at the apex somewhat irrorated with grey; hindwing beneath slightly striated with brown, beyond 
the middle marbled with chocolate-brown, sprinkled with yellowish scales and at the distal marginjbroadly 
suffused with violet without eye-spots. 
Y. ibitina Ward has the wings above black-brown, grey at the eye-spots; expanse about 36 mm. ibitina. 
The eye-spots on the upperside of the hindwing are placed in a red-yellow transverse band. On the under 
surface of the forewing the eye-spot is surrounded by a large, grey, oval area, extending from the costal to 
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