102 NYMPIIALID.E. SATVRIN.E. MVCALESIS. 



The patch of black hairs on the upperside of the forewing near the abdominal margin in the 

 male is of course absent. Underside similar to the male, but the outer violet band extends to 

 the margin beyond the marginal lines, and the third ocellus on the hindwing is decidedly smaller 

 than the others. 



Butler in the Cat. Lep. B. M., Su/yriJie, p. m {1868), referring to C. zicinns, Felder, 

 from tlie Celebes, says : " In C. epiminthia there are five ocelli in the foreiviirg, the second and 

 fifth largest, the third smallest ; in the hindwing there are also five, the first and last larger. 

 None of the ocelli could, strictly speaking, be described as black ; they are olivaceous, 

 with a yellow iris, edged outwardly with dark brown, and they have a diagonal white pupil 

 irrorated with black atoms ; these ocelli, moreover, all stand upon a pale violet ground." In 

 making these remarks Butler has evidently misapplied the name C. epiminthia, for, as described 

 by Westwood, neither that species nor C. nothis have any trace of ocelli on the underside of 

 the forewing ; and we have specimens of C. epiminthia agreeing with the original description. 



Several males of this rare Butterfly were taken by Captain C. H. E. Adamson in the 

 neighbourhood of Moulmein in October, one of which has been sent to us, and Captain C. T. 

 Bingham took a single female in the Meplay valley, also in Upper Tenasserim, in October. 

 Besides these we have no other records of its capture. 



The figure is taken from a male specimen from Moulmein, in the collection of Major 

 Marshall, and shows both the upper and undersides. 



An allied species, which is considered to be a local subspecies of C. enptychioiJcs, Felder 

 (from Borneo), has been described from Malacca by Butler under the name of C. hmnilis ;* 

 it differs from both the Indian species in the absence of the purple shot on the upperside, and 

 in the presence of an ocellus on the forewing on the underside. 



Genus 8.— MYOALESIS, HUbner. (Plate XVI). 



lilycaU'sis, Hiibner, Vcrz. bck. Schmett., p. 54 (1816) ; id., Westwood, Gen. D. L., p. 392 (1851). 

 "Body slender, finely hairy. Wings rather large, plainly and uniformly coloured, those of 

 the MALE generally with a tuft of hairs on the upperside. Head rather small ; with a small coni- 

 cal tuft of hairs in front. Eyes naked [or hairyt] prominent. Antenna scarcely half the length of 

 the forewing, very slender ; joints scarcely distinct, terminated by a long but very slender club. 

 Patpi porrected obliquely ; the tip elevated rather above the level of the top of the eyes, 

 and advanced in front rather farther than the length of the head, very slender ; the first and 

 middle joints sparingly clothed beneath with long, porrect, delicate bristles ; the middle of 

 the second joint also clothed on the back with a tuft of short hairs ; terminal joint very 

 slender, acute at the tip, short, and scarcely setose. Thorax rather small, rather compressed, 

 and very convex. AMotnen slender. Forewing with the costal 7na7-gin strongly arched ; 

 apex rounded ; outer margin varying from slightly convex to slightly concave, entire, about 

 three-fifths of the length of the costal ; inner margin about one-fourth longer than the outer, 

 rather dilated in the male. Costal nervure strongly dilated at the base ; subcostal nervure 

 with the first and second branches arising before the anterior extremity of the discoidal cell, 

 which extends to the middle of the wing ; upper disco-cellular very minute ; middle one longer, 

 curved, rather obliquely directed towards the base of the wing ; outer disco-cellular much 

 longer, strongly arched, united with the third branch of the median nervure at a short 

 distance from its origin. In the species in which the base of the median nervure is not 

 swollen, the space between its first and second branches is much longer than usual, the 



* Ccilites hiimtlis, Butler, Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist., third series, vol. xx, p. 403, pi. viii, fig. 8, 

 and pi. ix. fig. 2 (1867), Jeiiiate ; C. en/iij'cAiot/ies, yar. /tiimi/is, T)'\f,ta.nt, Rhop. Malay., p. 45, fig. 15 (1882), 

 female. Habitat; Ayerpanas, Malacca. Expanse: 3'o5 inches. Description: "Female: Upphrside 

 swarthy, the external area of ihe foreui/iiff a little darker, of the hbidwing paler, with an obscure marginal 

 line ; kiiuiiuing with a very indistinct siibanal blind ocellus, circled with pale ochreous ; the inner margin 

 paler. Body swarthy; /J 7<^i!««(? ferruginous. Underside paler ochraceous, with a wide median band, and 

 another submarginal bearing ocelli, violet ; a cloudy discal band swarthy ; two distinct irregular marginal 

 lines, swarthy ; fotcwiiig with a small subapical ocellus ; hindiving with five, the third and fourth small, 

 the iifth large, all black, banded with yellow and beyond that with swarthy and minutely pupilled with white ; 

 /'(j^/y ochraceous." ( /hitter, \.c.) 



t 'I'he eyes of the typical African species of Mycalesis are naked, but they are hairy in most of the Indian 

 species : see key to the groups. 



