10 SATYRID.E. — MYCALESIS. 



above, reddish bcne.ith. Tip reddish, i)receded by a blackish sioacc. Lody 

 beneath white ; palpi and legs lined with white. 



Female. Larger than the male, but otherwise similar, except on the upper 

 surface. On the anterior wings the tawny basal area is more extended, the 

 lower ocellus being completely surrounded by it. On the posterior wings there 

 are only three ocelli above, the small upper ocellus in the male having here 

 quite disappeared. 



Hab. Eubiana Lagoon, Solomon Islands (Woodford). 



In tlie Collection of Mr. H. Grose Smith. 



Allied to M. Messene, Hewitson, and M. Sara, Mathew, but with rather narrower wings. 



IX.~MYCALESIS MARGINATA. ^ . Fig. 4. $ . Figs. 5, G. 



Mydosama Marginata, Moore, " Transactions of the Entomological Society 

 of London" (1881), p. 307. 



Exp. If-l-H) inches. 



3fale. Upperside. Anterior wings oblong, the hind margin being very 

 long, and the apex rather pointed. Yellowish-fulvous, shading into brown at the 

 base ; the hind margins and the costa of the anterior wings with a dark brown, 

 moderately broad, regular border. Posterior wings with three ocelli towards the 

 anal angle, composed of a central black spot, surrounded by fulvous and black 

 rings ; the middle one rests on the dark border, and the upper one stands almost 

 within it. 



Underside light ochreous, with two rather broad slightly irregular rufous 

 bars crossing the centre of the wings ; two submarginal black lines, and an 

 outer one at the base of the fringes, which are dark on the anterior, and tawny 

 on the posterior wings ; and a row of ocelli, five on the anterior, and seven on 

 the posterior wings, formed as above, but with a more or less conspicuous white 

 centre to the black spot. On the anterior wings the first and fourth, and on the 

 posterior wings the first, fourth, and fifth are the largest. On the posterior 

 wings, the row of ocelli is bordered within by an additional slightly festooned 

 rufous stripe. 



Body clothed with olive-green hair above, and yellowish -grey hair beneath. 



Female. Upperside similar to the male. Anterior wings with a white dot 

 near the inner edge of the dark border between the two lower median nervures. 



