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Show 148 MR. A. G. BUTLER ON INDIAN BUTTERFLIES. [Mar. 2, under surface of the primaries they agree almost entirely with C. nirmala, but show the submarginal stripe strongly as in C. annada; on the underside of the secondaries they are coloured like C. annada, but have rounded ocelli varying in number from two to five. In expanse they are intermediate, and therefore correspond with G. scanda in this respect. N.W. Himalayas, up to 6000 feet. 5. YPTHIMA ORDINATA, n. sp. (Plate XV. fig. 3.) Nearly allied to T. lisandra, rather darker : primaries above with the ocellus less widely zoned ; secondaries with three ocelli in an oblique decreasing series from third median branch to anal angle: wings below decidedly browner, the transverse stripes less prominent; secondaries with six ocelli forming a regular but interrupted series, two at apical angle and two on median interspaces of nearly equal size, and two smaller, unequal and confluent, at anal angle ; all these ocelli have a single small plumbageous pupil. Expanse of wings 1 inch 5 lines. One specimen. Bengal. The ocelli on the under surface of secondaries in T. lisandra form a distinctly irregular series, and are generally much less uniform in size. N Y M P H A L I N ^ E , Bates. 6. C H A R A X E S W A T T I , n. sp. (Plate X V . fig. 2.) $ . Allied to C. bay a and C. affinis (see P. Z. S. 1865, pl. xxxvii.) ; but differing from the former in the absence of the white pupils in the black submarginal spots on the upper surface of secondaries ; from the latter in the greater size and more distinctly diamond-like shape of these spots, and the much more regular inner margin of the broad black border of primaries ; and from both in the coloration of the under surface, which is dull clay-yellowish washed with shining lilacine grey, excepting upon the outer borders and on the lunated discal belt bounding the submarginal ocelloid spots internally ; bands indicated by black lines edged externally with white; margins and lunated belt dull ferruginous brownish. Expanse of wings 3 inches 6 lines. Bishnath, Upper Assam, August 1877. Only one example was taken; but Dr. Watt says that it is not uncommon. 7. LIMENITIS TRIVENA. Limenitis trivena, Moore, Ent. Month. Mag. i. p. 133, note (Nov. 1864). Ravee Basin, N.W. Himalayas, on wooded slopes near water. 8. NEPTIS MAHENDRA. Neptis mahendra, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 18/2, p. 560, pl. 32. fig. 3. Common in the Ravee Basin; one specimen also taken in the |