lo6 NY.MPHALID/E. SATYRIN.E. MYCALESIS. 



This species has only as yet been taken in the vicinity of Port Blair in the South Anda- 

 mans in May, July and August. Though closely allied to M. anaxias, it appears to be a 

 distinct species, differing in its smaller size and in the narrower, better defined character of 

 the white subapical band, especially on the underside, where in M. anaKias the band extends 

 towards the apex by suffusion with the brown ground. 



86. Llycalesis anazias, Hewitson. (Plate XVI, Fig. 54 <?). 



M. anaxias, Hewitson, Ex. Butt., vol. iii, Mycalcsis pi. iv, figs. 25, 26 (1S62), wa/^; Virapa anaxias, 

 Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1880, p. 156. 



Habitat : Nilgiris, Trevandruin, Travancore, Sikkim, Assam, Naga Hills, Khasi Hills, 

 Upper Tenasserim. 



Expanse : $ , z-\ ; ? , 2-4 inches. 



Description: "Male: Upperside brown. Foreioing crossed near the apex by an 

 oblique band of white. Underside, dark brown from the base to beyond the middle (its border 

 on the forewing angular), followed by a broad margin clouded with lilac and grey, and 

 rufous brown ; traversed by three lines of dark brown : the cilia lilac. Forewing with the white 

 band as above, and three small ocelli, two above, one below the band. Hindtving with five 

 ocelli, all black, with white pupils, the iris rufous and indistinct." {Hnvitson, 1. c). The 

 Female differs from the male in its larger size, broader and more rounded forewing and 

 paler colouration, in consequence of which the ocelli of the underside not unfrequently 

 show through on the upperside. The ocellation of the underside varies greatly in this species, 

 being most developed in Nilgiri specimens, in some of which the hiiidwing bears seven 

 ocelli, as in M. radza, the fifth ocellus is considerably the largest, the first and sixth about 

 half the size, the rest smaller ; the fourth ocellus has the largest white pupil, which remains 

 as a white dot in specimens where some of the ocelli are obsolete. In specimens from 

 Tenasserim the white subapical band is as narrow on the upperside as in 1\I. radza, but on 

 the underside only appearing as a cloudy white border to the sharply defined deep brown 

 ground ; the ocelli too are almost entirely obsolete in the male, the first, fifth, sixth and seventh 

 being visible on the hindzving as minute ocelli ; the rest including those on the forewing 

 only as very small whitish dots. In the female the ocelli are prominent, but differ somewhat 

 in their proportions from those of Nilgiri specimens, those on the hindwing increasing 

 regularly from the second to the fifth and decreasing to the seventh. 



M. anaxias was taken by Limborg in Upper Tenasserim at 3,000 to 6,000 feet eleva. 

 tion. Captain C. T. Bingham took it in the Donat Range in the same locality in January and 

 October, and Mr. Harold Fergusson has taken it in the Ashamboo Hills, Travancore, not 

 uncommonly in March and May at 3,000 to 4,000 feet elevation. It is apparently found 

 only in hilly country. 



The figure shows the upper and undersides of a male specimen from Sikkim taken by 

 Mr. de Niceville in October at 2,000 feet elevation, and now in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. 



The next species should, if these groups are to be recognised as generically separate, 

 form the type of a new genus ; in colouring it is almost identical with Tenasserim specimens 

 of M. anaxias, but the wings are altogether broader and more rounded ; in the forewing the 

 costa is comparatively shorter and much more arched, the apex is much more obtuse with a 

 tendency to become acuminate, the exterior margin is convex and nearly erect instead of being 

 straight and oblique, the tuft of hairs over the glandular pouch on the upperside of the 

 forewing is light brown and placed above the submedian nervure, whereas in M. anaxias it is 

 black and placed on the nervure lying along it. Further the neuration of the hindwing is 

 widely different ; in M. anaxias the upper disco-cellular nervule is short, connecting the radial 

 at once with the subcostal at a considerable distance beyond the origin of the first subcostal 

 branch, while in M. anaxioides the upper disco-cellular is projected backwards from the 

 base of the radial for some distance, then curving sharply round upwards it joins the subcostal 

 just in advance of the origin of the first branch. 



