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other larger ; two submargin.il Mack lines, the margin white. Uliiilwuia crossed beyond the 

 middle by an indistinct banil (seen through) ; followed by two ocelli towards the anal angle, 

 the one nearest the angle minute, oval, and ill-formed : a submarginal line of rufous-white : 

 the margin broadly white, traversed by a very fine black line. U.nderside rufous, the basal 

 half undulated with dark brown ; crossed beyond the middle by a continuous band of white, 

 followed by a broad band of purple-brown marked with several ocelli : on the fomoiug by 

 three ; the first (which is minute) and second near the apex ; the third (larger) beyond the 

 middle : on the himhving by five, three of them near the apex (the tlurd indistinct), two 

 near the anal angle, large, all with white pupils and rufous border ; both ivings with 

 white and rufous submarginal bands ; the margins white." (Ileivilson, 1. c.) 



In the figure by Ilewitson of the upperside, the ocellus of the hindwing between the 

 first and second median Ijranches is the largest of all ; in that of the underside the anal ocellus 

 of the hindwing is bipupi'.led, almost geminate. The large size and pure white marginal 

 lines of this Butterfly distinguish it from all other Indian species of Mycalesis, as well as the 

 large size of the anterior subanal ocellus of the hindwing on the upperside. The locality, 

 " Deccan," given by Ilewitson is probably erroneous, but it is a very rare Butterfly. 



103. Mycalosis suaveolcns, w.-m. and de n. 



Habitat : Cachar. 



Expanse : <?, 2-5 inches. 



Description : Male : Wings above and below dark sepia, tinged with ashy-white. 

 Foreiving with the costal and outer margins regularly arched. With a narrow and very 

 indistinct light brownish discal band extending parallel to the outer margin from the subcostal 

 nervure to the third median nervule ; with two velvety-black, white-pupilled ocelli encircled 

 by a slender iris of ochreous-brown of almost the same shade as, but more distinctly expressed 

 than, the discal band ; with the first of these ocelli the smaller, triple (having a minute 

 white-pupilled ocellule run together with it at either end), and so placed that its pupil lies in 

 the fold between the discoidal nervules ; with the second ocellus much the larger, circular, 

 and placed in the middle of the first median interspace, whence it extends a short distance 

 into the two adjoining interspaces ; and with two obsolete anteciliary pale lines. Hindioing 

 above with a single perfect and slightly elongated ocellus in the first median interspace, the 

 bounding nervules of which it does not reach ; with a minute rudimentary ocellus on the fold 

 of the third median interspace on one side only ; and with the pale anteciliary lines more 

 distinct than in the forewing. Underside darker and more richly coloured, but not striated ; 

 with a narrow cretaceous-white common discal band extending from the subcostal nervure in 

 the forewing to the submedian nervure in the hindwing, where it runs into the inner of the 

 two pale anteciliary lines, which, equally distinct in both wings, are somewhat coarser in the 

 forewing ; and with a third pale line following the outer configuration of the ocelli. Fo7e' 

 zi'itig ocellated as above. Hindwing with seven ocelli arranged in two decreasing series, the 

 first of which consists of four slightly decreasing ocelli, and the second of three more rapidly 

 decreasing ones, of which the first corresponds to the one visible above, but is larger, extend- 

 ing beyond the limits of its interspace on both sides, so as to touch the second, which is 

 united to the third or anal. AntenncB above concolourous with the wings and body, below 

 lighter and indistinctly annulated, becoming orange towards the black orange-tipped club. 



A single specimen was taken on Nemotha, N. Cachar, at an elevation of 3,300 feet, in 

 September. Mr. Wood-Mason notes : "The scent-glands and fans, which are much as in 

 M- malsara, Moore, emitted a powerful and delicious odour resembling that of vanilla for 

 some hours after the death of the insect." 



Between Pachama and Samanta Moore places a Javan species, M. vioorei, Felder,* as 

 the type of a distinct genus of which it is the sole representative, and which he characterises as 



* Mycnlesis moo'ei, Fek'er, Keise Nov , Lep., vol. iii, p. 502, n. 870, pi. Ixvii, fig. 9 (1866), male. 

 Habitat : Java. Expanse : 2 inches. Desckiption : " Male : Upperside fuscous, with an obsolete darker 

 external line, beyond which the margin is paler. Hindwing with a very obsolete line before the margin. 



