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Show 238 MR. F. MOORE ON LEPIDOPTERA [Feb. 21, YPTHIMA INDECORA, n. sp. (Plate XII. fig. 7.) Nearest to Y. inica, Hewits. Upperside brown : fore wing with a darker subbasal oblique shade; a prominent, bipupilled, subapical ocellus : hind wing with two smaller subanal ocelli. Underside covered with very slender grey striga?; two very faint brown fascia? crossing middle of both wings, those on the hind wing waved : hind wing with two subapical and three subanal, extremely minute, and indistinct silver-pupilled ocelli. Expanse, S If. ? 1§ inch. Hab. Kangra district. In coll. Rev. Hocking & F. Moore. YPTHIMA NAREDA. Satyrus nareda, Kollar, Hiigel's Kaschmir, iv. p. 451 (1844). Ypthima nareda, Hewits. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1865, p. 285, pl. 17. f. 6 (nee f. 7). NYMPH ALiNiE. DlLIPA MORGIANA. Apatura morgiana, Westw. Doubleday's Gen. D. Lep. p. 305 (1850). Dilipa morgiana, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E.I. C. i. p. 201, pl. 6 «. f. 5. "August. 6000 feet." LlMENITIS TRIVENA. Limenitis trivena, Moore, Ent. Monthly Mag. 1864, p. 133. CHARAXES FABIUS. Papilio fabius, Fabricius, Spec. Ins. ii. p. 12 (1781), <3 . Papilio solon, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 1, p. 69 (1793), $ . " Dharmsala ; July. Taken at sugar." EULEPIS ATHAMAS. Papilio athamas, Drury, 111. Exot. Ins. i. pl. 2. f. 4 (1773). Kangra ; Kulu ; 3000 feet. EULEPIS HAMASTA, n. Sp. Smaller than E. athamas. Fore wing differs in the medial band being broader in the male, the subapical spot also broader and more regularly quadrate, its upper angle being nearer the apical spot, of which latter there are two in the female, one above the other : hind wing with a more prominent submarginal series of white spots, the three lower spots being conspicuously larger and lunular in shape, with contiguous greyish outer lunules. Expanse 2 | to 2 | inches. Hab. Dharmsala, 6200 feet; March, June. In coll. British Museum. " The wildest butterfly that I know. Takes very long flights at a time and returns to the same point. Very shy." |