NYMPHALID/E. SATYRIN^. MYCALESIS. 119 



(d.) As in (c), but with a second small ocellus attached beneath the large one. 



(e.) The upper ocellus with a smaller one attached beneath it ; and the lower ocellus with 

 a smaller one above it, all four encircled with one outer ring. 



(f.) As in (c), but with a small ocellus beneath the lower ocellus, making five in all. 



(g. ) The median band is also variable in width and distinctness, and varies in colour from 

 pure white to dull ochreous and in some specimens to greyish white. 



In the himhcniig the second and third ocelli are sometimes entirely wanting (usually in 

 Andaman specimens, sometimes also in Nicobar and continental Indian examples) ; in some 

 specimens they are rudimentary, in others distinct and equal to the seventh anal one in size. 

 Occasionally, but very rarely, the seventh (anal) ocellus is obsolete. The Andaman specimens 

 referred to above are the M. druiia of modern writers ; some specimens agree fairly well with 

 the figure of that species. They have the fascia always ochreous, and a male specimen sent 

 to Mr. Moore for identification, with the second and third ocelli on the underside of the 

 hindwing absent, has been named M. jiislina by him, but it does not agree with Cramer's figure 

 of that species, as the latter has all the ocelli present. 



M. mineus has been taken in Naini Tal and Mussoorie in the North-West Himalayas, and 

 is found throughout India, except in the dry North-West, extending through the Malay 

 Peninsula in the regions of heavy rainfall. We have specimens from Tenasserim, Pegu, Sylhet, 

 Cachar, the Naga Hills, Assam, Sikkim, Calcutta, Bombay, the Godaveri districts, Travancore, 

 Ceylon, the Andaman and Nicobar islands. The specimens from the Andamans are fairly 

 constant having usually two ocelli on the forewingand the median fascia ochreous ; the Nicobar 

 specimens are more variable like those from Continental India. Mr. Otto Lloller has taken 

 numerous specimens in the Sikhim tarai from July to September, and in the Sikhim Hills in 

 May and August ; also Mr. Wood-Mason in Cachar between those months. We have specimens 

 from the Godavari District, Travancore and Ceylon, which have the median fascia on the 

 underside very narrow and pure white ; they are also of very small size, 18 inches only 

 in expanse. Typical specimens with a white fascia also occur in the Malay peninsula. 



98. LlycalesiS polydecta, Cramer. 

 Papilio fyoJydectn, Cramer, Pap. Ex., vol. ii, pi. cxliv, figs. E, F (1777) ; Mycalesis polydecta, Butler, Ann. 

 and Mag. of Nat. Hist., third series, vol. xx, p. 402, pi. ix, figs. 5, 6 (i?i6t), female ; idem, id., Cat. Lep. B. M., 

 Satyridt^, p. 135, n. 33 (186S) ; idem, id., Cat. Fabr. Lep. B. M., p. 34, n. g (1869) ; Calysisme polydecta, Moore, 

 Trans. Ent. Soc. Lend., 1S80, p. 162. 



Habitat : Tranquebar ? (Cramer), Burma, Sumatra, Borneo, Celebes. 



Expanse : 2-2 inches. 



Description : " Upperside fuscous, with the margins slightly paler ; forewing with a 

 large ocellus; hindwing vi\\h. two smaller ocelli, the inner the larger of the two. Underside 

 paler, with a whitish median fascia, the outer area bearing ocelli, five on the forewing, seven 

 on the hindwing; the outer margin pale with black lines." 



"Cramer gives the locality of this species as Tranquebar ; but I have a specimen, exactly 

 agreeing with his figure, from Borneo. In the British Museum we have it from Celebes, 

 and a variety from Sumatra without ocelli on the upperside of the hindwing." (Butler, 1. c. 

 in Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist.) 



We have specimens from Burma which have been identified by Mr. Moore as varieties of 

 M. polydccta ; they agree fairly well with Cramer's figure, but better still with Butler's figure of 

 this species, and they differ only from M. mineus in having a separate ocellus between the 

 second and third median nervules on the underside of the forewing ; thus showing either four 

 or five ocelli as follows : — a moderate-.sized lower ocellus on the first median interspace, a 

 rather smaller one on the second median interspace, and a subapical one the same size with 

 a smaller one attached below it, and sometimes another attached above it. 



With reference to the foregoing note by Butler regarding the British Museum specimens, 

 Distant, in his " Rhopalocera Malayana," (p. 51) remarks : — " Mr. Butler has also included 

 M. polydecla in his Malaccan species. The form he has figured (Ann. and Mag. of Nat. 

 Hist., third series, vol. xx, pi. ix, figs. 5, 6, 18G7), however, does not agree with Cramer's 



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