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Show 1874.] MR. F. MOORE ON NEW ASIATIC LEPIDOPTERA. 567 the c Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera' (p. 394) to ostrea, believing Hiibner's figure to represent a species distinct from Cramer's otrea; but I fiud, after a careful examination of a lengthened series of specimens in the British Museum and others in m y own collection, that Hiibner's figure well represents a male of Cramer's species (otrea), whose figure (pi. 314. f. A, B ) is that of a female. The name ostrea, therefore, cannot be retained, as it was applied to Hiibner's figure, and not to the specimens which Prof. Westwood erroneously determined as representing it. YPHTHIMA NEWARA. Tphthima nareda, Hewits. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1865, pi. 17. fig. 7 (nee fig. 6). Male. Upperside brown: fore wing with single subapical ocellus; hind wing with two subanal ocelli, the former bipupilled, and the latter with a single pupil of bright blue. Underside yellowish grey, partly covered with numerous short brown strigae ; both wings with a narrow submarginal brown fascia : fore wing with single bipupilled ocellus as above : hind wing with three ocelli, the apical one very large, the anal bipupilled, the others with single bright blue pupil. Female brown, externally with short pale strigae ; both wings with single ocellus above. Underside as in male. Exp. If inch. Hab. Nepal. In Coll. W . C. Hewitson and F. Moore. Differs from Y. nareda, Kollar, in being somewhat larger, the female striated above, the ocelli of both sexes much larger on the underside, and the position of the ocellus on fore wing being less inwardly oblique. YPHTHIMA NIK^A. Upperside dark brown : pupils of ocelli blue : fore wing with a subapical bipupilled ocellus (smaller than in T. sakra) : hind wing with two subanal ocelli; male sometimes with only one subanal ocellus. Underside grey, with numerous short brown narrow strigse : fore wing with ocellus as above, and a distinct brown submarginal transverse fascia : hind wing with five ocelli, the two apical being the largest and joined together, though having a yellow band between them ; the other three ocelli in a linear series from anal an°4e, the anal one bipupilled. Exp. ly-'u inch. Hab. N . W . Himalayas. In Coll. Capt. A. M . Lang and F. Moore. Differs from Y. sakra in its smaller size, darker colour above and greyer below; and may be distinguished by the difference of the apical ocelli on the bind wing, which in Y. sakra have no intervening yellow band. YPHTHIMA AVANTA. Upperside dark brown, with an indistinct bipupilled ocellus on the fore wing, and two subanal ocelli on hind wing. |