132 NYMPHALID.E. SATYRIN^. MYCALESIS. 



MALE with two minute discal ocelli. Underside ocliieous-yellow, marginal lines bright 

 yellow. Borewiiig with an elongated subapical white spot and large prominent lower ocellus, 

 the lower portion of which is suffused with black ; five transverse lines commencing from thf 

 base, and circle round the subapical spot and lower ocellus ochreous-red ; a silvery band across 

 the middle of the wing, and anotlier round the upper spot and lower ocellus. Hindioing with 

 a subapical and two subanal white spots distantly encircled by a black line, and then by a 

 red line, each again enclosed by a silvery band ; a subbasal silvery band and two red lines. 

 Body brown ; palpi at the side and legs beneath greyish." {Moore, I.e. in Lep. Cey). 



"Very common, and easy to capture. Taken at Galle and Kaudy. " {Captain Wade). 

 It is apparently confined to the island of Ceylon. 



114- MycalesiS JTinonia, Butler. (Plate XVI, Fig. 57(?). 



M.junonia, Butler, Cat, Lep. B.M., Satyridce, p. 146, pi. iii, fig. 4(1868); Nissangajunonia, Moore, Trans. 

 Eiit. Soc. Lond., 1880, p 170. 



Habitat : Hills of South India. 



Expanse : i-6 to rS inches. 



Description : "Male and Female : Upperside fuscous, with the margin pale, with 

 a [two] black line [s] on it, the cilia varied with greyish and fuscous. Forezoiiio with two black 

 ocelli pupilled with white, the upper one circled with brown, the lower one much larger, 

 circled above with an irregular whitish lunule. Hindivitig with one or two minute indistinct 

 discal ocelli [often absent]. Underside olivaceous, otherwise marked almost as in M. patnia." 

 (Butler, l.c.)Th female is rather larger than the male, and lacks the secondary sexual characteis. 



Mr. Harold Fergusson writes of this species that in Travancore it was not common in April, 

 and only to be found in heavy forest at about 800 feet elevation ; and later on in May that it 

 was fairly common in the hills at the end of the month. There are specimens in the Indian 

 Museum, Calcutta, taken at Koppa Anchee, Kadur District, Mysore. 



The figure shows the upper and undersides of a male specimen in the Indian Museum, 

 taken at Trevandrum, South India. 



The remaining groups of this section are chiefly confined to the Austro-Malayan region; 

 one species only, M. Jiisciim,* Felder, is found as- far north as the Malay Peninsula. It belongs 

 to a group separated by Moore as a new genus under the name of AIydosaina.-\ The same group 

 was previously characterised by Felder as Dasyoninia, but that name was rejected owing to 

 its having been previously used in the order Diptera. 



Tivdfth GiOKp. —'LoEZh, Moore. "Male: Fore^ving somewhat elongate and narrow; 

 costa arched at the base and apex ; exterior margin oblique, slightly convex ; second subcostal 

 branch emitted at some distance beyond the cell. Plindiving bluntly ovate ; costa arched 

 at base ; apex, exterior margin and anal angle convex ; a tuft of fine hair at base of subcostal, 

 and a slender tuft covering a groove on middle of submedian nervure ; cell short, broad 

 in the middle ; subcostal concave at its base, first branch emitted close to end of the cell, 



* Dasyomvtn fiisaim, Felder, Wien. Ent. Monatsch., vol. iv, p. 401, n. 27 (i860) : Mycalesis diniche, 

 Hewitson, Ex Butt , vol. iii, p. 85, Mycatcsis pi. iv, fig. 23(1862), ;«a/<; ; id., Journ. Linn. Sue, Zoology, 

 vol. viii, p. 146 (1865) ; M. mmgites, id., Kx. Butt., vol. v, Jljyc.ttfs/s pi. ix, fig 59 (1874), female ; Mydosamx 

 y"«itK;«, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc Lond., \%'&o,'p. \^o■, Mycaiesis fitsca. Distant, Rhup. Malay., p. 53, pi. v, 

 fig I (1882), fciiiale. Habitat: Malay Peninsula, Singapore, Sumatra, Borneo. Exi'anse: Male, I'g; 

 female, 23 inches (from Hewitson's figures) Desckiption : "Male: Upperside fuscous h'o>eiviiig 

 with a'blind ocellus. y//«</«'/«^ with the disc slightly .suffused with violet, with two ocelli scarcely distinct. 

 Undeksi.me. Both wings brown, powdered with fulvous, with two ferruginous discal lines. Forewing \/iih 

 four ocelli. Hindiuing with seven on a ferruginous ground." (Felder, \. c.) 



t Genus Mydosania, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1880, p. 170. "Wings short. Forewiiig Teg\\\ax\y 

 arched along the costa ; exterior margin slightly convex and oblique; second subcostal branch emitted imme- 

 diately before end of the cell ; disco-cellulars very slightly concave. Himiwing bluntly conical ; costa convex; 

 exterior margin and angles convex, slightly waved ; cell broadly triangular ; first subcostal br,.nch emitted close 

 to end of the cell, and in the male swollen at its base ; disco-cellulars oblique, slightly concave ; two upper 

 median branches emitted from end of the cell. Male with a tuft of fine hair covering a glandular patch at 

 base of first subcostal branch. Club of ««/<•««« moderate. /'^//>/ less laxly clothed beneath than in i\7j.'i(j«j;a, 

 and the terminal joint shorter. Eyes hairy." {Moore, 1. c.) 



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