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Show 1885.] OF BOMBAY AND THE DECCAN. . 127 12. CALYSISME VISALA. M. visala, Moore, Cat. Lep. E. I. C. i. p. 230 (1857). Poona, October. Taken in company with the above. 13. YPTHIMA ALEMOLA, n. sp. Poona, October to June. Very common. Allied to Y. asterope, Hiibner, and Y. mahratta, Moore. 6" 2 - Upper side very similar to Y. asterope, which is an African insect. Underside much paler and of a different hue, greyish white, very plentifully covered with pale reddish-brown striae, more dense in the fore than in the hind wings; fore wings with a brown fascia from the costa round the ocellus back to the costa, diffuse and deep below the ocellus ; hind wings with three sinuous fasciae across the wing-first before the middle, second beyond the middle, third sub-marginal ; one or other of these fasciae is very often obsolete. The striae are denser towards the base of the wing, leaving the outer half of the wing whitish ; two anal and one apical blind dot, in the place of the well-formed ocelli with yellow rings of Y. asterope ; one or other of these dots is often wanting, in some specimens all are wanting. I have examined over two hundred examples of this species. Expanse of wings lyo-1TT> hich. 14. YPTHIMA HUEBNERI. Y. hubneri, Kirby, Syn. Cat. D. L. p. 95 (1871). Y.philomela, Hiibner (nee Linnaeus), Zur. Exot. Schmett. figs. 83, 84 (1818). Mahableshwur, May. 15. YPTHIMA BALDUS. Pap. baldus, Fabr. Syst. Ent. App. p. 829. Bombay, November. 16. YPTHIMA MAHRATTA. Y. mahratta, Moore, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, vol. liii. pt. 2, no. l,p. 1 (1884). Bombay, October and November. 17- LETHE NEELGHERRIENSIS. Satyrus (Cyllo) neelgherriensis, Guerin in Delessert's Voy. dans l'Inde, pt. 2, p. 74, pi. 21. figs. 1, la (1843). Belgaum, no date; Poona, November. ACR^EIN^E. 18. TELCHINIA VIOLJE. Pap. viola, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 460 (1775). Poona, January to April; Bombay, September. |