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Gular stalk or even against the side of a rock sometimes, always close 

 to the ground. The imago is common enough in the Kanara Dis- 

 trict above and below the ghats at all times of the year, always in 

 jungles, however, hardly ever venturing into any considerable open 

 space. There is no reason why it should not occur in Kolaba or 

 Thana. In the monsoon the colours of the underside become much 

 brighter, the white bands then becoming leaden or silvery. The in- 

 sect is confined to the hills of Southern India. Needless to say the 

 larva feed on grasses. It will eat rice. 



lO. Mycalesls visala, Moore. — Male and female : tipperside dark vandyke- 

 brown ; both wings with double subteiminal pale line. Forewing with a single, 

 white-centred, fulvous-ringed, black ocellus, generally set in a square pale 

 ai-ea in interspace 2 ; occasionally a similar small ocellue without pale area in 

 interspace 5. Hindwing uniform, sometimes with one or two obscure postmedian 

 ocelli. Underside : ground-colour similar ; fore and hindwing crossed by a trans- 

 verse dusky-white discal band, well defined inwardly, diffuse outwardly, fol- 

 lowed by a postdiscal series of ocelli surrounded by a dusky-yellowish, some- 

 times purplish-white line ; the ocelli are similar to the ocelli on the upperside 

 and vary from two to four on the fore and from five to seven (the preapical 

 two being sometimes obsolescent) on the hindwing ; of these the posterior /oz<y 

 are in a straight line ; finally, beyond the rows of ocelli there is a double, pale 

 or purplish-white subterminal line. Exp. 52-61 mm. 



In the dry weather the upperside becomes lighter in colour ; the underside 

 varies from ochraceous brown to dusky brown of a darker shade ; the basal half 

 of wings is conspicuously darker than the outer half ; the whole surface irror- 

 ated with fine brown striae ; sometimes a distinct dark discal fascia crosses both 

 wings ; ocelli nearly obsolete, indicated by minute white or black specks, the 

 posterior four on the hindwing in a straight line. Antennae, thorax and abdo- 

 men brown ; the club of the antenna3 with black and ochraceous marks. The 

 male has a patch of specialised scales set in a satiny area on underside near 

 dorsum of forewing and a patch of specialised scales near costa of upperside of 

 hindwing covered by a pencil of long hairs {vide fig. 6). 



Habits. — The transformations of this species are not known. Its 

 distribution is Himalayas, Bengal, Central Provinces, South India, 

 Burma and Tenasserim. The insect is plentiful in the bamboo jungles 

 of Western "Ghats, especially in the vicinity of rivers and evergreen 

 iunoles. The sex-mark on the underside of the forewino- of the male 

 is long and extends beyond the transverse line crossing the wings 

 which distinguishes it from M. pohjdecta. The acuteness of the fore- 

 wing is most apparent in the dry -season forms. 



1 1. Mycalesls perseus, F. — Male and female : upperside dark to some- 



