52 llllOl'ALOCKnA MALAYANA. 



the same suiTouudins pak' gi-eyisli line;* postcrim- wings with the second and third small ocellated spots 

 of typical specimens totally absent, iln thu tigiire here given the sevt'nth and smallest spot has been 

 omitted.) 



This variety I have received from Province Wellesley. 



JI^B. — Continental India ; -Bombay (colls. Moore & Dist.) ; Silhet (Brit. Mns.l — Ceylon (coll. Moore). — 

 Andaman Islands (Calcutta Mus.)— Tenasscrim (Limborg). — Malay Peninsula; Penang ; Province Wellesley 

 (coll. Dist.); Malacca (Brit.Mus. and coll. Godm. \- Salv.)— Sumatra (Snellen). — Java (coll. Moore).— China ; 

 Hong Kong (colls. Moore and Brit. Mus.). 



I have compared the two specimens tigm-ed (Tab. IV., figs. 13, 14) with the Linuean 

 typical specimens in the possession of the Linnean Society of London, and have satisfied 

 myself as to their identity. This is a very variable species, but not more so than we might 

 expect, when we remember analogous cases of Satyrid variation in Europe. Even in England 

 Hijiiutrcliia hijpcranthiis affords a good example, and an inspection of the figures of the six varieties 

 of that species, as given by Mr. Newman, f will convince any one of the little specific value afforded 

 by either the size or number of these ocellated spots in that species. Had a Malayan descriptive 

 entomologist been dealing with these British varieties, as occasionally received by him, there is 

 little doabt that some at least of them would have been described as distinct species. In my 

 opinion the operation has only been reversed with respect to .1/. inineus, and this must frequently 

 occur with us all when describing unique specimens from abroad. It is only when many 

 specimens are accumulated that the strength of this varietal view of the value of ocellated spots 

 can l)e fully apprehended, as has been abundantly shown in the American genus Euptycliia by 

 Messrs. Godman and Salvin, I and as Mr. Darwin had taught us to expect. § Linnaeus himself 

 can also be adduced as a witness to the varietal character of his species. Dr. Aurivillius, of 

 Stockholm, has very kindly forwarded me a coloured copy of a figure in the unpublished 

 'Icones' of Clerck, below which, as Dr. Aurivillius informs me, " Linne himself has written 

 ' 84 Mineus,' and which therefore may be relied on as typical." This figure apparently represents 

 an extreme variety (female), in which the ocellated spots of the underside of the wings are very 

 small, and the area in which they are placed very pale. 



5. Mycalesis blasius. (Tab. VII., fig. 7.) 



rapiliu niiimis, Fabricius, Eut. Syst., Suppl. p. 426, u. -188-489 (1798). 



Mycalesis Blasius, 13utl., Proc. Zool. Sue. 1807, p. 720, fig. 4; Cat. Satyr, p. 137, u. 40 (18(j8) ; Cat. Fabr. 



Lcp. p. 34, u. 10 (1869) ; Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 825. 

 Mycalesis liirida, Butl., Trans. Ent. Soc. 1879, p. 3. 

 Calysisiiie Blasius, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1880, p. 162; Lep. Ceyl. i. p. 21, t. xi. f. 2, 2a (1881). 



Male. Wings above fuliginous-brown ; in some specimens the anterior wings have a small obscure 

 white-centred spot near bases of fourth and lifth subcostal nervules. Wings beneath fuliginous-brown ; 

 both wings crossed by a narrow, pale, whitish fascia, which passes a little beyond the apices of the discoidal 

 cells. Anterior wings with four submarginal ocellated spots, black with white centres and ochraceous 



•■•• Mr. Moore (Lep. Ceyl. i. p. 22) describes a like varietal form as not uncommon in Ceylon, and wliicli is indicated 

 in bis figure, I'late XL, i'. 4 b. 



t ' nmish Butterflies,' p. 'Jo. J Biol. Ceutr. Am. Bbop. p. 87. § ' Descent of Man,' ed. 2, p. 427 et seq. 



