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blue pupils on the fore wings; sometimes these are placed 

 on a fulvous or tawny band. In the Slatilinus group the 

 eyes are smaller, and have often two white dots between 

 them ; and this shades into the Semele group ; and this 

 again into the Briseis and Circe groups, where there is a 

 white or yellowish band, more or less divided by the nervures, 

 across both wings. Tiiree or four North Indian species, 

 closely resembling Circe in appearance, have been separated 

 under the generic name Aulocera. Two of the most 

 interesting HipparchicB from Western Asia are H. Bischoffii, 

 in which the hind wings are fidvous, and Parisatis, unilbrm 

 brownish black, edged with bluish white. 



AJycalesis is a large genus, to which most of the smaller 

 Snfi/riti<s from Africa, Asia, and the Australian Region, 

 belong. They are usually brown, but sometimes fulvous, 

 yellowish, white, or even purplish. (I forgot to mention 

 before that many dark-coloured Saiyrina exhibit a bluish, 

 purplish or greenish lustre in some lights. This is very 

 conspicuous in some of the European species ot Hipparchia 

 and Maniola.) Mycalesis usually exhibits more or less of a 

 marginal row of eyes ; but the most conspicuous, and often 

 the only one visible above, is usually that nearest to the 

 hinder angle of the fore wings. There is usually a transverse 

 pale line running across all the wings beneath, within the 

 eyes. These insects are usually about the size of S. Janira ; 

 but the genus Yplhima, and its allies which foUow^, are 

 seldom much larger than Cceiionyiiiphce. Their range is 

 similar to that of Mycalesis, but they may be at once distin- 

 guished from it by their unilbrm brown colour, with a black 

 eye in a yellow ring near the lip of the lore wings, always 

 enclosing two white pupils. There is usually a variable 

 number of eyes on the hind wings, most numerous 

 beneath. 



After this genus comes Heteropsis, a small dark brown 

 butterfly from Madagascar, remarkable for the produced lips 

 to the fore wings. 



The genus Coeuonympha is European and Californian ; 

 the Californian species are paler than ours. The South 

 Russian Triphysa Phryne is remarkable for the disparity of 

 the sexes; the male is brown, and the female dirty white; 

 the under surface has conspicuous white nervures. 



