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anything but its daik inner margin ; the ocelli are also almost nulimentary. In Burma it is not un- 

 common from January to May, and possibly in other months. Captain C. T. Bingham has taken 

 it in the Donat range, and at Meplay and various places in the Tlioungyeen valley ; Mr. C. T. 

 Hill tookit at Tavoy in March ; Mr. Wood-Mason took it in Cachar in April ■, and Dr. Anderson 

 in the Mergui Archipelago in December. In the neighbourhood of Calcutta it is not uncommon in 

 November; and it is also recorded from the Khasi hills, Sikkim, where Mr. de Niceville has 

 taken it in October, and the Dehra Doon, but it appears to be unknown in the south. 



The figure shows the upper and undersides of a male specimen in Major Marshall's 

 collection taken in the Barrackpore Park near Calcutta. 



94. Mycalesis mandata, Moore. 



M. vtandata, Moore, Horsfield and IMoore, Cat. I.ep. E. I. C, vol. i, p. 233. " 499(1857): '"'/•, B"t1er, Cat. 

 Lep. B. M., Satyyidcr, p. 139, n. 51 (i858) ; M. gawaliha, Butler, Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist., tl.ird series, vol. 

 xi.x, pi. ii, figs. 3, 3a, 3* ( 1867 ) ; Oysahi^na mandata, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1880, p. 160 ; idem, id.. 

 Lep. Cey., p. 22, pi. 11, figs, i, \a ( 1880). 



Habitat : Malabar, Canara, Wynaad, Travancore, Ceylon. 



Expanse: i"5 to 2'i inches. 



Description : "Upperside brown, with transverse band of underside indistinctly 

 seen through the wing. Underside with broad transverse very while band crossing both 

 wings. Foreioing with two small ocelli, himiwing with three ocelli, the anterior being small, 

 and all encircled with a silvery line." 



"y?^»w;-y&.— Differs from Mycalesis hes'ioHe\^M. medus\ on the underside in having the 

 transverse band three times the width that it is in that species." ^.Moore, I.e. in Cat. Lep, 

 E. I. C.) The FEMALE only differs in lacking the sexual pouches and tufts of hair. 



The UPPERSIDE has also the two marginal dark lines bordered intvardly with a whitish line 

 as in M. viedus ; and on the UNDERSIDE the same lines but rather more conspictious, the ocelli 

 are similar in number, size and position, but the yellow iris is narrower and darker, and the 

 external silvery cincture considerably more prominent. 



M. mandata is found in Ceylon and in the south of peninsular India. In Ceylon it 

 "frequents open ground at edges of forests. It is found in the plains, and up to about 3,000 feet 

 in the Western and Central Provinces from May to September. Flight slow and for short 

 distances; it settles down among long grass and is easily captured." {H7itih{soti). Mr. 

 Harold Ferguson has taken it in May at Eridge in the Ashamboo hills in Travancore. 



95- Mycalesis mandosa, Butler. 



M. mandosa, Butler, Cat. Lep. B. M., Satyridit, p. 139, pi. iii, fig. 9 (186S) ; Oisotriana mandosa, Moore, 

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



PIabitat: South India, Malabar. 



Expanse : i 85 to 2 -06 inches. 



Description: "The largest of the M. hesione [=71/. tnedusl group. Upperside 

 coloured as in M. mandata. Forrccing more elongate. Ilindtving with the margin more 

 sinuate. UNDERSIDE darker brown, the external margin sprinkled with whitish scales ; 

 the ocelli placed as in M. /usione not as in AI. mandata ; a broad snow-white median band, 

 gradually narrowing towards the costa of the. for ewing, but on the hindiving exactly as in M. 

 mandata ; the ocelli of the fornving brown, very indistinct, of the hindtmng black, banded 

 with fuscous and inwardly bounded with a plumbous lunule." {ButUr, I.e.) The female only 

 differs in lacking the sexual pouches and tufts of hair. 



A pair, male and female, of this species has been sent to us by Mr. G. Vidal, which were 

 taken at Malwan in the South Concan in March. These are only i '85 inches in expanse, and 

 though larger than average specimens of ^/. mandata are not so large as M, runcka ; they have 

 the same marginal lines on the upper and undersides, and the form of the white band is the 

 same, the only distinctions between them and /)/. mandata being in the small size of the 

 ocelli, especially on the forewing, where they are obsolescent ; there is no perceptible 

 difference m the position of the ocelli in any of the species of this group. 



