NYMPIIALID.^. SATYRIN.E. MYCALESIS. 129 



We have never seen a specimen of tliis species. The underside of the forewing bearing 

 two ocelli only is a character not found in any other species of this group. 



108. Mycalesis malsara, Moore. 



M. malsara, Moore, Horsfield and Moore, Cat. Lep. E. I C, vol. i, p. 231, n. 492 (1857); id., Hewitson, 

 Ex. Butt., vol. iii, p. 80, Mycalesis pi. i, figs. 5, 6 (1862) ; Samanta malsara, Moore, Trans. Ent, Soc. Lond., 

 1880, p. 166. 



Habitat : Mussoorie, Sikkim, Khasi Hills, Sibsagar, Cherra Punji. 



ExpAN.SE : I -90 to 2*25 inches. 



Description : " Upperside dark brown. Forewing with a transverse brownish-white 

 band, and upper and lower ocelli. Hitidwitig with very indistinct transverse brownish-white 

 streak, and two small ocelli. Underside with transverse yellowish-white band well defined 

 across both wings. Forewing with five ocelli, the first and third minute. Hindzving with 

 seven larger ocelli, the third and seventh smallest." (Moore, I. c.) 



The above is the original description ; the following is a more detailed description by 

 Hewitson, who gives excellent figures of both upper and undersides in his "Exotic 

 Butterflies" :— 



"Upperside rufous-brown ; /^>y7>;'/«o crossed beyond the middle by a band of white, 

 followed by three blind ocelli (tlie middle one minute) ; /iiiid-witig\\\\.\\ one ocellus, indistinct ; 

 the outer margins of both wings rufous-white, traversed by two black lines. Underside 

 rufous, undulated ; crossed beyond the middle by a band of yellowish-white, interrupted where 

 the wings meet, followed by a broad band of dark brown with numerous ocelli ; on the 

 forewiug five, the second and fifth largest ; on the hindwing seven, the first, second and fifth 

 largest, most of them with white pupils and rufous borders, the wliole enclosed on each wing 

 by a tortuous line of lilac ; the margins broadly white [yellowish-white?] traversed by two 

 dark lines." ( l/ezvitson, 1. c.) 



In some specimens there are only two blind ocelli on the upperside of the forewing ; 

 sometimes no ocelli, sometimes two on the hindwing. The width of the discal band on the 

 underside is also very variable ; in some Sikkim, and in a Mussoorie specimen in the Indian 

 Museum, Calcutta, it is less than half as wide as in other Sikkim and Sibsagar specimens. 

 The FEMALE differs in being paler, all the markings more distinct, and in the absence of the 

 male sexual secondary characters. 



Mr. de Niceville took it commonly in Sikkim in October, both in the tarai and lower hills. 



109. Mycalesis niCOtia, Hewitson. 

 M. nicotia, Hewitson, Gen. D. L., p 394, pi. \y~\\, fig. a, (I'^ii), female ; id., Ex. Butt., vol. iii, Mycalesis 

 pi. i, fig. I, tnale ; Samanta nicotia, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. Eoiid-,,1880, p. 167. 

 Habitat : Sikkim ; S. India {aptui Butler.) 

 Expanse : 2 '3 to 2-5 inches. 



Description: "Uppkrside dark brown; the outer margin paler, traversed by 

 two submarginal lines of dark brown. Foreiving with two ocelli, one near the apex, 

 small ; the other below it, large. Hindwing with one ocellus near the middle of 

 the outer margin ; all black with white pupils and rufous borders." {f/eivitson, 1. c. in Ex. 

 Butt.) " Undkrside rufous brown, undulated with numerous darker stride, broadly 

 margined with lilac [grey], on which are three black lines [the margin is rufous between 

 the two marginal lines] ; crossed beyond the middle by a narrow common band of yellow, 

 followed by a broader band of dark brown in which are numerous ocelli ; on ihe/orezoiiig 

 five, the lowest much the largest ; on the /li/idiaing sewen, the first oval, larger than the three 

 following, which are small, the fifth largest, the sixth and seventh small ; all deep black, with 

 rufous margins and white pupils." {//ezuitson, 1. c. in Gen. D. L.) 



In the Indian Museum, Calcutta, there is a single male specimen of this species from 

 Sikkim, where it was taken in August. On the upperside of the forewing there is an ocellule 

 attached to the upper ocellus posteriorly, and corresponding with the third ocellus of the 



