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MYCALESIS. IT. 



XII.— MYCALESIS VALERIA, i. Figs. 1, 2. $. Fig. 3. 



Mijcaksis Valeria, H. Grose-Smith, " Novitates Zoologicae," Vol. ^11. , 

 p. 87 (March, 1898). 



Exp. i . If inches. ? . 2 inches. 



31ale. Upperside. Blackish brown ; anterior wings with two black spots 

 on the disc, centred by a white dot, one before the apex, the other between the 

 two lowest median nervules ; the white band which crosses the disc on the 

 underside is faintly visible through the wings. Posterior wings with the disc 

 crossed from the middle of the costal margin to the lowest median nervule by 

 a broad transverse white band which is widest on the costa and somewhat 

 narrower at its termination, below which on either side of the lowest median 

 nervule are two black spots centred by a white dot. 



Underside. Closely resembles M. Barbara, Gr.-Sm., but on the anterior 

 wings the white band across the disc is rather narrower, and on the posterior 

 wino-s is rather broader ; on the posterior wings the spots in the discal row of 

 ocelli are larger, and those on either side of the lowest median nervule are 

 surrounded by broad orange rings. 



Female. Upperside. Paler than the male; anterior wings with a broad 

 white band which crosses the middle of the disc from the upper median nervule, 

 where it is narrowest, to the inner margin where it is broadest, dusted with 

 brown scales between the median nervules ; the two discal spots as in the male. 

 Posterior wings with the white band as in the male, but wider and more diffused 

 and extending down to the spots on either side of the lowest median nervule, 

 where it becomes tawny and confluent with the orange rings round the last- 

 named spots. 



Underside. As in the male, but the white bands are broader, and the spots 

 in the middle of the row of ocelli crossing the disc are nearly obsolete. 



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