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Show 1886.] LEPIDOPTERA FROM WESTERN INDIA. 359 "Common on the 25th September about Kala Pani and on the road between Abbottabad and Bugnoter."-/. TV. Y. The incorrect identification of Y. avanta has been given to Major Yerbury for this species ; though common in India, it is a very rare species in European collections, as also is Y. avanta-a smaller Butterfly, more nearly resembling Y. newboldi in form, the under surface of its wings ash-grey, densely striated with brown and distinctly crossed by olive-brown bands ; the ocelli of the secondaries small, oval, and with large silver pupils. The four (unfortunately rather worn) specimens in the present collection, though they differ from one another in minor details, correspond in all their principal features with m y type of Y. ordinata. 11. YPTHIMA NAREDA. Satyrus nareda, Kollar in Hiig. Kaschm. iv. 2, p. 451 (1848). d, Dewal, 26th August, 1885. " Common at Murree in August."-J. TV. Y. 12. YPTHIMA SAKRA. Ypthima sakra, Moore, Cat. Lep. E.I. Co. Mus. i. p. 286. n. 508 (1857); Hewitson, Trans. Ent. Soc.ser. 3, vol. ii. pi. 18. fig. 18 (1865). d , Murree, 12th September; Thundiani, 24th September, 1885. " Ypthima nikaea. Dewal, 26th August. Not uncommon about Murree and towards Thundiani, end of August and beginning of September. The form Y. sakra (differing in having no intervening yellow bands to the ocelli) was also obtained."-J. TV. Y. The true T. nikaa is unknown to me, but Mr. Moore describes it as having the " underside grey," whereas in this species (Y. sakra) it is distinctly yellow ; he also says that the apical ocelli of the hind wings are "joined together, though having a yellow band between them," the only part of this description which is to me unintelligible, but to which Major Yerbury evidently refers as the distinctive character between the two named forms. In the Hewitson cabinet there is a series of five Y. sakra, the smallest specimen, labelled "nikcea, M.," differing in having the two apical ocelli separate though enclosed in an 8-shaped yellow zone : though the under surface is still yellow instead of grey, this may be the typical Y. nikcea; if so, it is connected with Y. sakra, of Marshall and De Niceville, by one of the two specimens now sent, in which the ocelli, though not absolutely confluent, touch one another upon the vein as in Hewit-son's figure. Hewitson's type of T. sakra, therefore, is clearly one of these intermediate specimens. NYMPHALIN^E. 13. H Y P O L I M N A S MISIPPUS. Papilio misippus, Linnaeus, Mus. Lud. Ulr. p. 264 (1764). d, Campbellpore, 9th November, 1885. "Flew to light at night during R. A. Mess." "Rare: only four specimens in all taken-3 o* and 1 2 - November and December."- J. TV. Y. |
