. Butterflies. Vol. Lepidoptera. 144 nymphalidjE. wings non-fasciated in most specimens, or with only the sub- terminal fascia on the fore wing. The clasp in the male differs, however, considerably from that of Y. huebneri. Exp. <$ 2 33-39 mm. (1-25-1-50"). Hab. Himalayas ; Kashmir; S. India, Mysore and the Anaimalai Hills (fide Elwes). Race ceylonica, Hewitson.— <3 2 • Upperside vandyke-brown to dark sepia-brown. Fore wing uniform, with the usual single preapical ocellus. Hind wing: posterior half, sometimes less than half, pure white, with two or three small posterior
. Butterflies. Vol. Lepidoptera. 144 nymphalidjE. wings non-fasciated in most specimens, or with only the sub- terminal fascia on the fore wing. The clasp in the male differs, however, considerably from that of Y. huebneri. Exp. <$ 2 33-39 mm. (1-25-1-50"). Hab. Himalayas ; Kashmir; S. India, Mysore and the Anaimalai Hills (fide Elwes). Race ceylonica, Hewitson.— <3 2 • Upperside vandyke-brown to dark sepia-brown. Fore wing uniform, with the usual single preapical ocellus. Hind wing: posterior half, sometimes less than half, pure white, with two or three small posterior ocelli, a lunular incomplete subterminal and an even slender terminal brown line. Underside white,with somewhat sparse, Fig- 34. short, delicate, fine transverse brown Ypthima huebneri Kirby. gtri tti d r towards the Race ceylomcu, Hew., k. p ^ p • -n • •,, Upper and under sides. °* the *0re ^ Fore WmS ™th the ocellus, a brown ring surrounding it very broad and very broadly and diffusely produced downwards, discal and subterminal transverse fasciae obscure. Hind wing with four ocelli in a curve, the anal bipupilled; traces of a discal trans- verse brown fascia and of a lunular subterminal brown line. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen brown ; abdomen white beneath. Exp. S 2 34-40 mm. (1-34-1-58"). Bab. Beugal, Orissa ; ,S. India, the Nilgiris, Travancore ; Ceylon. 171. Ypthima bolanica, Marshall, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 759 S; M. fy de N. Butt. Ind. i, 1883, p. 231 ; Moore (Nadiria), Lep. Ind. ii, 1893- 96, p. 85, pi. 112, figs. 5, 5 a, J 2. 6 2 • Upperside umber-brown. Fore wing with a single, slightly oval, oblique, bipupilled, fulvous-ringed, large, black ocellus placed in a paler ocellar area; the ocellus and the sur- rounding area both defined outwardly by a broad darker brown line. Hind wing uniform, with a very much smaller but similar unipupilled ocellus. Cilia brown, with a distinct interior whitish line. Underside brown, irrorated with minute, short, tra
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