SATYRIDJi:. 



MYCALESIS. III. 



VIIL— :MYCALESIS INTEERUPTA. $. Figs. 1, 2. $. Fig. 3. 



Myodesis Interntpta, H. Grose Smith, "Entomologist's Monthly Magazine," 

 vol. 25, p. 299 (1889). 



Exp. 2-2J inches. 



Male. Uppekside. Anterior wings with the inner two-thirds bright 

 tawny, the outer half of the costa and the rest of the wings dark brown. 

 There is a subapical black spot nearly lost in the brownish colom% but centred 

 with white ; and a similar spot between the middle and lowest median nervules, 

 the bright tawny of the base extending above this spot between the upper and 

 middle median nervules. Posterior wings dark brown, greenish taw^ny towards 

 the base and anal angle ; two narrow submarginal dark brown lines, inside 

 which are four black spots centred with white, the three lowest surrounded with 

 a pale brown ring, the first spot nearly obsolete, the third much the largest. 

 Costa white ; a large tuft of grey hairs at the base of the cell. 



Underside. Anterior wings : basal half fulvous, shading into a bright 

 chestnut-brown transverse line a little beyond the middle, followed by a pale 

 yellowish-brown space shading outwardly to dusky brown, in which are two 

 large black ocelli (the lower the larger), centred with white, surrounded with an 

 orange ring margined with dark brown, the space beyond to the outer margin 

 tawny, crossed by two sinuate dark brown lines. Posterior wings : basal half 

 bluish-brown, shading into a bright chestnut-brown band a little beyond the 

 middle ; the sjmce beyond greyish-blue, shading outwardly to dusky brown. 

 in which are situate five ocelli, similar to those on the anterior wings, the first 

 and fourth the largest, the second the smallest, the third and fifth about the 

 same size ; the space beyond tawny, with two submarginal lines as on the 

 anterior wdngs. 



Body brown above ; thorax clothed with greenish hairs ; antennae brown 



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