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on one or both pairs of wings. They have recently been 

 divided into many genera, which, however, are not yet univers- 

 ally recognised by entomologists, and it is therefore unnecessary 

 to notice them further in a work of this description. 



MYCALESIS SIMONSII. 



{Plate XXXV., Fig. 5.) 



Mycaksis simonsti, Butler, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (4), xix., 

 p. 458(1877). 



Wings above sandy-yellow, with a straight, transverse, pale- 

 bordered light brown post-median line across both wings ; 

 costal and apical areas of fore-wings reddish-brown, particularly 

 in the female, the base and outer border more or less tinted 

 with the same colour ; the margins and a sub-marginal line 

 darker brown ; two white-pupilled black ocelli, one small 

 towards the apex, the other large between the first and second 

 median branches ; hind-wings with six more or less strongly 

 indicated discal black dots ; outer margin reddish-brown. Fe- 

 male with a slender sub-marginal reddish-brown line. Under 

 surface pale rusty-reddish, mottled with ferruginous; the basal 

 area bounded externally by a pale-bordered post-median ferru- 

 ginous line, deeper in colour than the basal area ; a marginal 

 line, and indications of a sub-marginal line, ferruginous ; 

 fore-wings with the ocelli less distinct than above, with an 

 additional smaller indistinct ocellus above and below the 

 sub-apical one; hind-wings with an irregular ferruginous line 

 crossing the cell ; discal dots more distinct than above, more 

 or less pupillated with white. {Butler.) 



Expanse of wings, 1 inch, 10 to 11 lines. 



Allied to M. eliasis, Hewitson. 



The types of this species are in the British Museum, and 

 were collected by Mr. F A. A Simons at Lake Nyasa. 



