imoPALOCEllA M.ILAVAXA. 51 



Male. Wiiiss above fuliKinous-l)ro\vn. Anterior wiiiRs with a faint, pale, straight fascia, which passes 

 a little beyoml eud of cell, aud from which to outer margin the colour is slightly paler ; a black spot with 

 a white centre and a faint ocliraceous margin between first and second median nervules, and two 

 marginal fuscous lines, the innermost of which becomes faint and obsolete towards apex ; fringe smoky 

 ocbraceous. Posterior wings with two distinct marginal lines, on each side of which the colour is dull 

 ochraceous (in some specimens a minuti' white-centred fuscous spot between second and third median 

 nervules). Wings beneath with the colour l)righter and paler; both wings crossed by a narrow fascia, on 

 anterior wings passing somewhat beyond, and on posterior wings about end of cell ; anterior wings with 

 two submarginal ocellated spots, which are black, with white centres and yellow margins, the first and 

 smallest situate on the discoidal nervules, and perfectly surrounded by a pale greyish line, the second 

 and largest placed on tlie second and tliird median nervules, with a pal<- suiToiniding greyish line, which 

 terminates inwardly on the transverse white fascia (both these spots sometimes throw off a smaller one, 

 the upper one generally posteriorly and the lower one usually anteriorly, as shown in the female figure 

 here given) ; two pale greyish marginal lines, the inner one waved, and the fringe also pale greyish. 

 Posterior wings with seven submarginal ocellated spots of a similar pattern and colour to those on anterior 

 wings, of which the second and third are minute, the whole scries being surrounded by a much waved pale 

 greyish fascia, which in some specimens tends to coalesce and perfectly surround the sixth and seventh 

 spots ; two pale greyish marginal fascia, the inner one most strongly waved, and the marginal fringe also 

 pale gi-ej-ish. Body and legs concolorous with wings. 



Male with a tuft of long pale hairs situate near costal base of posterior wings. 



Female. Larger than male; anterior wings above with the ocellated spot larger and brighter; 

 posterior wings above with two more obscure ocellated spots situate on the second and third median nervules 

 (there are sometimes indications of the commencement of a third spot between the third median ner^iile and 

 snbmedian nervure). Wings beneath as in male, but with all the spots and markings larger and brighter. 



Exp. wings, J 42 to 45 millim. ; 2 (JO millim. 



Yar. II. Mi/ailesis crphciiK, Butl.. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. xx. p. 402, pi. !». f. 3, 4 (18G7) ; Cat. Satyr, 

 p. 134, n. 30 (1868). . 

 Mycahsis hhisiiis, var. Ceplieus. Kirby, Syu. Cat. Diurn. Lcp. pp. Hil. itO, u. '29 (1871). 

 Cah/xisiii/' Cei'lii'iis. Moore, Trans. Eut. Soc. 1880, i'. 103. 



Male. This variety differs on the underside of the anterior wing in having an additional spot in front 

 of lower ocellated spot, and enclosed by the same pale greyish line ; and on the underside of the posterior 

 wings in having the second and third submarginal spots a little longer, which render the series apparently 

 a little more arched, as Butler describes.* 



This specimen was collected in Penang by Lieut. Pioberts. 



Yar. h. (Tab. lY., fig. 7.) 



Male. Diflers from typical specimens on the underside of the wings by the lower ocellated spot of the 

 anterior wing having a smaller one attached or non-attached to it beneath, l)ut which is also enclosed by 



* I am i)o.ssibly in agreement with Mr. Butler in estimating his M. ceplmia as l.ut a varietal fomi of M. wiiieiis. as in 

 his "Tabular View of the Buttei-flies of Malacca" (Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. .504, 1877) he does not enumerate 

 it, though he includes others which were not collected by Capt. Pinwill. That writer correctly remarked in his description 

 that it was allied to M. milieus, and I cannot agree with Mr. Kirby in considering it as a variety of M. biasius. Mr. I'.utler 

 has also included M. polydecta in his Malaccan species. The form he has figured (Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. .3, vol. xs. 

 pi. ix. f. -> & 6), however, does not agree with Cramer's figure of that species, and ft-om an examination of the Malaccan 

 specimens thus identified in the British JIuseum I certainly incline to the opinion that such are but varieties of M. vtineus, 

 and that the tnie M. polydecta, Cram., cannot as such be at present included in this fauna. 



