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great difference, and positively none of the little ocellated form as it occurs in 

 M. Perseus F. Both light and dark individuals are, however, met with in the 

 present species in the dry as well as in the wet season. 



This butterfly is very common at Batavia and elsewhere in W. J., and 

 according to Fruiistorfer also in the mountains of E. J. The upper surface of 

 the fore-wings of the c? is black for the greatest part but it is incorrect to call 

 this a scent-spot for although some sent-scales are, indeed, to be found there, 

 as in the c? of M. Nala Felder, by far the greatest part of the scales in the 

 area referred to are simply ordinary scales coloured an intense black by a dark 

 pigment. The 9 are more yellowish brown but some resemble the c? in colour. 

 Wet or dry season makes no difference in this respect. Even in 9 taken at 

 the height of the wet season black dots replace the two ocelli of the under side 

 of the hind-wings. The form SAGnriFERA of Fruhstorfer is perhaps simply a 

 somewhat unusually developed 9. Fruhstorfer, on the authority of Dr. Martin, 

 describes the caterpillar which is said much to resemble that of M. Mineus L., 

 and to be produced from similar greenish white eggs deposited singly. The 

 larva is supposed to be entirely nocturnal, during the day hiding itself deep 

 in the stems of grass, feeding only at might and on being touched drops, 

 feigning death. His description does not completely accord with mine. I 

 found the larva on roumpout benggala (Paspalum mollicomum Kunth). It 

 was of the same type as that of Ypthima Pandocus Moore, only slightly 

 larger, brown marbled with dark grey or loam-coloured with a dark dorsal 

 line and small blood-red spots ; stigmata black. The two processes on 

 the head and the posterior appendages as in Y. Pandocus. The pupa was 

 of a uniform brown. The perfect insect emerged on March 4''' from a pupa 

 of February 23"^"^. 



Martin notes that this butterfly emerges, not like its allies between 8 and 

 10 o'clock in the forenoon, but only between 2 and 3 o'clock in the afternoon, 

 and does not begin to fly until twilight, so that he regards it as a twilight 

 butterfly, which I consider very probable from the fact that, like other 

 allied kinds, it is only seen on being disturbed by accident when it speedily settles 

 down again. 



7. Fusca Feld. (PI. XVIII, fig. 56). 



Felder, Wien, Enlom. Mon., iv, /. 401, A^o. 24 (i860). Dasyomma Fuscum. 



Hewitson, Exot. Buttcrfl., iii, Mycal. fig. 26 (1862). . Mycalesis Diniche. 



V, J/j'^fl/., y/^. 61, 62 (1874). .. Margites. 



Distant, Rhop. Mai., /. '^i, tab. S,/ig. i (1882 — 1886). „ Fusca. 



