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Show 406 MR. H. J. ELWES ON BUTTERFLIES FROM SIKKIM. [May 2, ZOPHOESSA ATKINSONIA. Z. atkinsonia, Hew. Ent. Mo. Mag. 1876, p. 151 ; Hewits, Desc. Lep. in Coll. Atkinson, 1879, p. 2, t. 1. figs. 2, 3. One specimen of this species, which is found at about 8000 feet near Darjeeling, and probably in the interior. The published figure of this species is bad, being much too rufous, and the markings much brighter than in any of four specimens in my collection. The type, however, is somewhat brighter than the average. SATYRUS PADMA, Koll. Kaschm. p. 445, t. xv. figs. 1, 2. I received twenty specimens of a species which, if not identical with, is very close to S. padma, though not so large as Kollar's figure, and differing somewhat in the underside of the wing from any examples I have from the north-west. The white spot on the costal margin seems to distinguish this from any other species in m y collection except S. weranga, Lang, which is much smaller ; but all these Himalayan Satyri are very nearly allied, and we do not yet know much about them. MYCALESIS VISALA, Moore, Cat. Lep. E.I. C. p. 230. A single pair of this species, which is not uncommon near Darjeeling. The apex of the fore wing is sharply angled, almost pointed. The female differs only in larger size and paler colour. MYCALESIS, sp. A single female specimen, which at present I am not able to determine. YPTHIMA SAKRA, Moore, Cat. Lep. E.I. C. p. 286. A large number of this species, mostly in bad condition. The ocelli vary from three to five above in the males ; but the females, besides being paler in colour above, have usually an additional small ocellus on the fore wing. YPTHIMA, sp. A single male specimen, which I cannot identify with any known species, but which I refrain from naming, as it seems to me there are already too many names in this difficult and little understood genus. It is 1| inch in expanse, dark brown above, with large dark ocellus, ringed yellow and double-pupilled, on fore wing above. On the hind wing one large central double ocellus and two small ones. Beneath it is grey, with minute pale brown strise and two irregular transverse fasciae on both wings. Margin darker. Hind wing with three double ocelli in a paler band. It resembles T. methora, Hew., more than any other species I know, but differs considerably beneath from a Burmese specimen of that insect. |