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YPTHIMA. By Dr. C. Aurivillius. 
andriana. 
vinsoni. 
rakoto. 
tri oph¬ 
thalmia. 
mabillei . 
mopsus. 
smithi. 
sufferli. 
albivittuld. 
excellens. 
the hinduiargin. The hindwing is beneath ash-grey in the middle and has the hindinargin blackish with an 
ash-grey stripe; the distal part is brown-grey and encloses an irregular ash-grey spot, which is placed 
behind the two yellow-ringed eye-spots. 
In the species which follow the rings of the eye-spots on the upper surface are lighter and narrower than in the 
preceding and the eye-spots of the hindwing are not joined together but quite free or at most touching one another. The 
Irindwing always has the margins entire. 
Y. andriana Mab. Distal margin of the forewing uniformly curved; wings above dark brown; the 
hindwing above with two free eye-spots in cellules 2 and 3, beneath very dark reddish brown, irrorated with 
light at the apex and the distal margin and with a small spot at the base of vein 5, but entirely without 
eye-spots. Expanse 36 — 38 mm. 
Y. vinsoni Gaea. (29 b) only differs from andriana in having the hindwing beneath lighter, in the 
middle, at the apex and at the anal angle more or less whitish, and with 2 or 3 distinct eye-spots, in cellules 
(1 c), 2 and 6. The forewing beneath at the apex distinctly shaded with white. 
Y. rakoto Ward is confusingly like vinsoni , only differing in having the forewing beneath not whitish 
at the apex and the hindwing uniform dark brown in the basal part and at the distal margin broadly but only 
slightly lighter. The ? has an eye-spot also in cellule 6 on the upperside of the hindwing. 
Y. triophthalma Mab. (29 b) is a fourth similar species, coming especially close to vinsoni, from which 
it chiefly differs only in the hindwing beneath having a distinct eye-spot also in cellule 3. The eye-spots 
in cellules 3 and 6 are separated by a whitish transverse band, which is directed from the apex towards the 
inner margin. North Madagascar. 
Y. mabillei Anriv. measures 43—45 mm. and is consequently larger than the preceding species. Wings 
above dark brown with a blackish submarginal line; the forewing above with one, the hindwing above with 
2 (cf) or 3 eye-spots narrowly ringed with orange-yellow. Fore wing beneath dark brown with brown-grey 
eye-spot area. Hindwing beneath at the base and at the distal margin dark brown, across the middle 
broadly violet-grey with brown striae, entirely without eye-spots. Distal margin of the forewing weakly 
curved without angle. 
Y. mopsus Mab. is similar to mabillei , but still larger and without eye-spot in cellule 3 of the hindwing. 
The hindwing beneath with eye-spots in cellules 1 c, 2 and 6, dark brown to beyond the middle, only behind 
the middle, just before the eye-spots, more or less lighter and all over with distinct, black transverse striae. 
The two following species differ from all the others in having the distal margin of the hindwing distinctly angled 
at vein 5 or 6. They are regarded by Butler as a separate genus, Callypthima. 
Y. smithi Mab. The hindwing angled at the end of vein 5. Wings above black-brown with bluish 
grey reflection and rather broad black marginal band; forewing with one, hindwing with two (cf) or three (?) 
eye-spots margined with orange-yellow. Forewing beneath coloured almost as above, but lighter; hindwing 
beneath marbled with dark brown and blue-grey, near the middle of the costal margin with a large yellowish 
white spot, which is accompanied by a small spot of the same colour at the apex of the cell; no eye-spots. 
Y. sufferti Auriv. differs from smithi in that the distal margin of the forewing is angled between veins 
6 and 7, the forewing above is dark brown, scarcely lighter at the distal margin, the eye-spot of the forewing 
is larger and has a much broader orange-yellow ring, the yellow rings of the eye-spots on the upperside of 
the hindwing are merged together into a short band and the hindwing beneath is much lighter, ash-grey, at 
the middle of the inner margin even whitish, and has two large chestnut-brown spots at the costal margin 
and an irregular marginal band of the same colour between the anal angle and vein 6. 
The last three species of the first group are distinguished from all the rest by having the under surface of the 
hindwing for a greater or lesser extent pure white without striae and bearing three well developed eye-spots. The wings 
are dark brown above, with the usual eye-spot on the forewing and two or three ocelli on the hiftdwing; all the eye-spots 
have free orange-yellow rings. 
Y. albivittula. Hindwing beneath black-brown to far beyond the apex of the cell, then Avith a narrow 
white transverse band, at the distal margin again black-brown, the eye-spots surrounded by the black-brown 
colour. In the type-form albivittula Mab. ? the eye-spots of the hindwing are placed in cellules 2, 3 and 
6. — excellens Btlr. has also three eye-spots on the under surface of the hindwing, but these are placed in 
cellules 1 c, 2 and 6. 
