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Show 1886.] LEPIDOPTERA OF MHOW. 423 12. YPTHIMA MAHRATTA. Ypthima mahratta, Moore, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, vol. liii, pt. 2, no. i. p. 1 (1884). Mhow, July and November; Neemuch, September to November, 13. YPTHIMA ALEMOLA. Ypthima alemola, Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1885, p. 127. April to July. 14. YPTHIMA D^EDALEA, n. sp. Allied to Y. ariaspa, Moore. Upperside dark brown, with the ocelli as in Y. inica, the one on the hind wing being minute, but with a clear ring of yellow round it. Underside pale grey, marginal lines brown • both wings covered with short brown strigse, uniformly disposed, with a submarginal whitish fascia, bordered on the outer side by an incomplete brown, slightly zigzag line ; pupils of the ocelli pale blue, metallic; fore wing with. one subapical large ocellus, bi-pupilled: hind wing with three light distinct ocelli-one large (slightly smaller than the one on the fore wing), subapical, placed well inside the wing, almost in the disk, and with its upper part overlapping the second subcostal nervule; one a little smaller, in the interspace between the second and third median nervules ; and a third, the smallest, is duplex at the anal angle ; these ocelli are very curious: commencing with the largest one near the apex of the fore wings, they are gradually smaller, and the three first are in a perfectly straight line, the minute duplex one at the anal angle being at an obtuse angle inwards; all the ocelli have broad uniform yellow rings with brown borders, and the duplicate ocellus at the anal angle is distinctly divided with yellow, but not cut between by the brown ring, which borders the outer yellow only, making it a complete duplex ocellus. Expanse of wings 1 ^ inch. Mhow, June 1882. 15. YPTHIMA RARA. Ypthima rara, Butler, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 145, pi. xxiv. f. 1. May to November, very plentiful; Neemuch, November. 16. YPTHIMA COMPLEXIVA, n. sp. (Plate XL. fig. 2, $ .) Shape, colour, and markings above identical with Y. rara. The underside is, however, quite different, colour pale greyish, covered with dark chocolate-brown strigae, and with an indistinct incomplete submarginal zigzag line, more distinct in parts of the hind wings : fore wings with a large subapical ocellus, bi-pupilled, with a deep yellow ring, bordered with brown, pupils bright blue metallic, and with another smaller blind ocellus just below it, also with a yellow ring round it: hind wings with three black, very minute spots where the ocelli should be placed, as in Y. inica. Expanse of wings lfV inch. Depalpore, November. |