SATYRID^. 



MYCALESIS. Y. 



XV.— MYCALESIS YALERLINA. S. Figs. 1, 2. 



Exp. If inches. 



Male. Upperside. Both wings brown, crossed by a pale brown band 

 extending from the uppermost median nervule a Httle beyond the end of the 

 cell of the anterior to a little beyond the lowest median nervule on the posterior 

 wings ; the band is narrowest at the top, widening rapidly to the inner margin 

 of the anterior, and continuing across the posterior wings of the same width, 

 but narrowing slightly towards its end. On the anterior wings beyond the 

 band are two black spots centred by small white dots, one subapical, the other 

 between the two lowest median nervules ; on the posterior wings are two similar 

 spots surrounded by dark fulvous rings, the uppermost between the two lowest 

 median nervules, the other, nearer the margin, a little before the anal angle. 



Underside. Differs from M. Valeria, Grose-Smith, on the anterior wings in 

 the white band being very much wider towards the inner margin, in having two 

 obscure spots between the two large spots, and in the absence of the dark bar 

 which crosses the cell of M. Valeria to the inner margin. On the posterior wings 

 the band crossing the disc is white instead of stramineous, the spots beyond the 

 band are surrounded by separate narrow fulvous rings, not confluent as in 

 M. Valeria, and the space beyond the band to the outer margin is of the same 

 colour as the basal part of the wings and not crossed by a stramineous area as 

 in M. Valeria. 



Hab. Kapa-Kapa, British New Guinea. 



In the Collection of Mr. Grose-Smith. 



This butterfly also resembles M. Barbara, Grose-Smith, on the upperside, but the bands arc 

 much paler and wider. 



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