164 Bombay natural history society. 



The unique female specimen above described is contained in Mr. 

 Otto Holler's collection, and was obtained at Kala Pookri, 10,000 

 feet, in Native Sikkim, on 19th July, 1888, 



2. MYCALESIS (Samaria) MISENUS, n. sp., PL A, Fig. 8, £ . 



Habitat : Sikkim, Kkasi Hills. 



Expanse : 6 , 22 to 24 ; ? , 2*4 to 26 inches. 



Description : Male and female. Upperside, both icings may be 

 known from ilf* nicotia, Doubleday and Hewitson (this being the 

 rains-form, while M. lancji, de Niceville, is the dry-season form of one 

 species), by the ground-colour being darker, the ocellus of the fovewing 

 in the first median interspace almost invariably smaller. Underside, 

 both wings with the ground-colour fuscous instead of pale brown, the 

 striations pale brown instead of ochreous. Male may be known by 

 the "scent-fan " below the costa of the hindwing on the upperside 

 being ochreous, in both forms of M. nicotia it is deep black. 



Mr. Otto Moller and I independently discriminated this species as 

 distinct from 31. nicotia by the conspicuously darker ground-colour 

 of the underside ; it was only afterwards that the marked difference 

 between the two species in the colour of the hairs of the " scent-fan" 

 was noticed. "With a darker ground-colour in M. miseniis one would 

 expect to find these hairs darker (had this been possible) than in 31. 

 nicotia, but the contrary is the case. 



I have described this species from three males and two females 

 from Sikkim obtained by Mr. Otto Moller (from April 1st to May 1st, 

 i.e., in the dry-season), and two males and four females from the 

 Khasi Hills by the Rev. "Walter A. Hamilton. It appears probable 

 that this species only occurs in the ocellated form, as is the case in 

 M. (Samanta) heri, Moore, and H. (Pachama) suarcokns, "Wood- 

 Mason and de Mceville. Mr. Elwes seems to have misunderstood 

 M. nicotia* but I think that the above remarks will enable any one to 

 discriminate between that species and 31. miscnus. The upperside 

 of typical 31. nicotia is well figured in the "Genera of Diurnal 

 Lepidoptera ; " I also have given a good figure of both sides of the 

 non-ocellated form of it (31. langi) in Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1884, 

 pi. iii, fig. 3, male. Mr. Elwes' figure of M. nicotia does not show 

 the basal striation of the underside, which is a most characteristic 

 feature of the species, and appears to have been drawn from a 

 female of 31. suarcokns . 



* Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1888, p. 306, n. 25, pi. ix, fig 5, female. 



