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Show 568 MR. F. MOORE ON NEW ASIATIC LEPIDOPTERA. [Nov. 3, Underside grey, numerously covered with dark brown narrow striae, 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. Exp. 1| inch. Hab. Lower Bagh river-valley, Cashmere (Capt. H. B. Hellard). YPHTHIMA ARIASPA. Male. Upperside dark brown : fore wing with a subapical bipupilled ocellus : hind wing with a small subanal ocellus. Underside whitish grey, with numerous narrow brown uniform prominent strigae : fore wing with ocellus as above : hind wing with a single large subapical ocellus, and two smaller ocelli from anal angle. Exp. 1 ^ inch. Hab. Punjab. In Coll. Oxford Museum and F. Moore. This species is similar in appearance to Y. nareda ; the ocelli of the upperside are smaller, the ground-colour of the underside being much paler, more uniformly covered with striga?, and without transverse brown fasciae. Subfam. ELYMNIINJE. E L Y M N I A S SINGHALA. Female. Upperside dark velvety fuliginous brown : fore wing with pale yellow-speckled quadrate patches on exterior margin: hind wing with a broad transverse submarginal series of narrow and broad partially confluent pale yellow streaks, some small streaks also along the exterior margin: cilia whitish. Underside dark brown, palest exteriorly ; apex of fore and hind wings suffused with pale pink : both wings covered with numerous short transverse black confluent strigae, which are broadest and darkest at the base of fore wing and along exterior margin of hind wing: hind wing with a submarginal series of six black dots each on a pale pinkish space, the upper spot having a small contiguous pure white spot. Exp. 3 inches. Hab. Colombo, Ceylon (Capt. F. J. Hutchison). Subfam. NYMPHALIN.<E. A R G Y N N I S VITATHA. Allied to A. aglaia; markings similar but more prominent. Underside of hind wing with the whole of the space from base to the transverse discal series of silvery spots, as well as their outer bordered spots, and marginal lunules, dark powdery green. Exp. 2\ inches. Hab. Cashmere, N. side of Rajdiangan Pass and Gurais (Capt. H. B. Hellard). ARGYNNIS SIPORA. (Plate LXVI. fig. 11.) Allied to A. pales. Upperside pale fulvous in the male, dusky fulvous in the female. |
