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DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES OF RHOPALOCERA. 

 BY W. C. HEWITSON, F.L.S. 



The following species, of wliicli tlie first three are from Lake 

 Njassa, and the last from China, are in my own collection. 



Mtcalesis Exa. 



Upper-side rufous-brown. Both wings crossed by two sub-nmrginal brown lines. 

 Anterior wing marked by two black ocelli, with rufous border and white pupil, the 

 apical ocellus considerably smaller than the other. 



Under-side grey-brown, darkest from the base to the middle, and undulated with 

 darker brown. Both wings crossed at the middle by a continuous undulated rufous- 

 brown baud. Anterior wing with the ocelli as above, except that the lower one is 

 Burrounded by a circle of brown. Posterior wing with a series of seven ocelli : the 

 second and third from the costal margin minute, the fourth and fifth largest, all 

 black, with rufous borders and pupils of white. 



Expanse, ly\j inch. 



Yery like 21. Mirian on the under-side, but marked on the upper- 

 side by ocelli, which that species is without. 



Mtcalesis Biesha. 



Upper-side rufous-brown. Both wings crossed by two sub-marginal bands of 

 brown. Anterior wing crossed at the middle by an indistinct band of brown : marked 

 by two ocelli boi-dered with orange, the pupils white. Posterior wing with two 

 similar ocelli between the median nervules. 



Under-side rufous, irrorate with paler colour. Both wings crossed below the 

 base by a pale brown band, bordered inwardly by paler colour, and by two sub- 

 marginal bands of white : both ci'ossed at the middle by a common band of white, 

 followed on the anterior wing by the ocelli as above, but surrounded by a circle of 

 white : followed on the posterior wing by a series of seven ocelli, bordered above 

 and below by a common linear band of white, the iris orange -yellow, the pupils 

 white : the first (near the costal margin), fourth, and fifth largest. 



Expanse, l-j'^ inch. 



This species scarcely differs on the under-side from M. Mineus. 



Tphtuima Bera. 



Upper-side rufous-brown. Anterior wing with one ocellus near the apex, with 

 rufous border, and marked by two minute white spots, and enclosed in a large circle 

 of pale brown, triangular at its lower extremity, and zig-zag on its inner side. A 

 sub-marginal line of brown. Posterior wing with two ocelli between the median 

 nervules, with rufous border and white pupil : two sub-marginal bands of brown. 



Under-side : anterior wing as above, except that there is an indistinct band of 

 brown crossing the cell. Posterior wing with a band of brown before the middle, a 

 sub-marginal series of fine black ocelli, with rufous border and pupil of white, the 

 whole enclosed by a common linear brown band, the ocellus second fi'om the costal 

 margin smaller than the others. 



Expanse, l/.j inch. 



A very distinct species. 



