112 NYiMPIIALID.E. SATYRIN.E. MYCALESIS. 



ocellus, except perhaps in M. rttncka ; but there can be little doubt that the two descriptions 

 indicate the same species, which stands as y)/. iimius, Fabricius. 



On the UPPERSiDE the median white bar of the underside is usually faintly visible on 

 both wings, which are otherwise without markings, except two marginal whitish fine lines, the 

 inner one less distinct and more waved than the other. On the underside of \.\\q foregoing there 

 is a subapical ocellus, and a larger one below it placed between the two lower median 

 nervules, and extending beyond them. The himbving has a small ocellus placed between the 

 subcostal branches, a larger contiguous ocellus placed below it, and a third sub-equal with 

 the second, between the two lower median nervules and extending beyond them ; all these 

 ocelli are black with a white pupil, rufous iris, then a ring of the brown ground-colour, and 

 lastly surrounded with an outer plumbeous ring. This latter ring does not extend completely 

 round the two upper ocelli of the hindwing, but forms one common margin to both, constricted 

 where the two ocelli join. The median white band does not quite reacii the costa on the 

 forewing, nor the abdominal margin in the hindwing, and is widest at the costal margin of the 

 hindwing. The female is somewhat paler coloured above and below ; the ocelli are rather 

 larger, the marginal lines more distinct, and the sexual tufts of hair, &c., are of course absent. 



Some specimens from Sibsagar, Assam, have the margin of both wings on the underside, 

 but more especially on the hindwing, thickly inorated with white scales between the ocelli and 

 the two fine marginal whitish lines. 



M. inediis is common in the Nicobars from August to November, and probably through- 

 out the year. Mr. Wood-Mason took it in Cachar in May, Mr. Oates at Pegu in the same 

 month, and Dr. Anderson in the Mergui archipelago in December and March. Colonel Lang's 

 collection contains specimens from Oudh and also from Un.balla ; the latter is probably its 

 most westerly limit of distribution. Mr. Otto Moller has taken it in the Sikkim tarai in 

 August and September, and Mr. Taylor at Khurdah, Orissa, in November. 



A closely allied .species which appears to be distinct, though placed as a synomym of M. 

 medus by Moore and Distant, has been described by liutler under the name of M. cinerea.* It 

 inhabits tiie Malay peninsula. 



93- Mycalesis ruaeka, Moore. (Plate xvi, fig. 56 <?). 



M. runekn, Moore, Horsfield and Moore, Cat. Lep. E. I. C vol. i, p. 234, n. 501 (1857); Oisotncena 

 runeka, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1880, p. 160. 



Habitat : Plains and hills of N.-E. India, British Burma. 



Expanse: 21 to 2 3 inches. 



Description: "Upperside uniform dark brown. Underside dark brown, paler 

 along the exterior margins ; a transverse yellowish-white band crossing both wings. Foraving 

 with two, Jnndu<iug\i\\h three pale-brown ocelli." {Moore, 1. c, in Cat. Lep. E. I. C.) The 

 FEMALE is similar in colour and markings, but lacks the sexual pouches and tufts of hair. 



M. runeka is siuiilar in colour to M. medus on the upperside, but the small obsolescent 

 ocelli of the underside, especially of the forewing, serve to distinguish it from the latter. Some 

 specimens from Sikkim and Sibsagar, Assam, have the outer margin of both wings, and especially 

 the hindwing, between the ocelli and the two fine marginal dark-brown lines, thickly irrorated 

 with greyish scales. There is a male specimen in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, two from 

 Shillong in Mr. de Niceville's collection, and others from Tenasserim in ^Lajor Marshall's collec- 

 tion, in which the median band of the underside has almost entirely disappeared, leaving hardly 



• Mycitlesis citicren, Butler. Hahitat : Singapore. Expanse : ic)4 inches. Description. " Male; Upper- 

 side obsiure brown, marbled with silky whitish all over, but especi.dly on \\\& forewing \ a very indistinct 

 oblique median band of the same colour. Body cinereous. Undkkside coloured almost as in M. Jicsioiie, 

 [ = ^1/. mcdiis\ but ashy-fuscous, the white band shortened, the marginal line cinereous not white ; the 

 marginal band wider, dilated at the anal angle ; the submarginal line more whitish, the ocelli smaller ; the 

 irides brownish and more slender, with all the cinctures more conspicuous and partly snow white." 



" Nearly allied to M. hcsione, [=Af. i/iedus] but grey, not brown, and with p.iler marbiings above, and 

 different marginal lines below ; the ocellus-zones also brigliter and varied with white." (Butler, Aun. aud Mag. 

 of Nat. Hist., third series, vol. xx, p. 401, pi viii, fig. 9 (1867), viulc. 



