1920[ Holland, Lepidoptera of the Congo 139 



(93) 21. Mycalesis desolata Butler 



Mycalesis desolata Butler, 1876, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (4) XVIII, p. 480. 

 Mycalesis leptoglena Karsch, 1893, Berl. Ent. Zeit., XXXVIII, p. 208, PI. v, fig. 7. 

 Mycalesis desolata Aurivillius, 1911, Seitz, Gross-Schmett., XIII, p. 93. 



Of this species there are five males, four of which agree absohitely 

 with the published descriptions and figure, but the fifth has the sub- 

 marginal ocelli much larger, with round black centers pupilled with 

 white, contrasting with the dull ground-color of the wings in a very 

 striking manner. In the typical form the ocelh are more or less obsolete. 

 The specimens were all taken at Niangara in November. 



(94) 22. Mycalesis safitza sethiops Rothschild and Jordan 

 Mycalesis safitza cethiops Rothschild and Jordan, 1905, Nov. Zool.,XII, p. 175. 



M. safitza was described and figured by Hewitson (cf. Gen. Diurn. 

 Lep., 1851, II, p. 394, note, PL lxvi, fig. 3). Of the form a;thiops there 

 are fifteen males and two females, all of which were taken at Faradje 

 and Niangara in November and December. There are also two males 

 and seven females taken at Medje in the months of July and August, 

 which are so much like the others in their markings that it is impossible 

 to separate them, though they are somewhat larger in size. 



(95) 22fl. Mycalesis safitza evenus (Hopffer) 



Mycalesis evenus Hopffer, 1855, Monatsber. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, p. 641; 1862, 

 Peters, Reise n. Mossambique, Ins. ,p 394, PI. xxv, figs. 5, 6. Aurivillius, 1911, 

 Seitz, Gross-Schmett., p. 93, PI. xxviie. 



Of this, the dry -season form of M. safitza, there are two males and 

 two females. One of the males was taken at Medje in August, the other 

 at Faradje in November. Both of the females were captured at Niangara 

 in November. 



(96) 23. Mycalesis langi, new species 



Plate X, Figure 10, cf 



cf . The fore wing with a small, but distinct, sexual brand at the middle of 

 vein 1, which at this point is slightly bent costad. The hind wing with a pale yellowish 

 brown pencil of hairs on the upper margin of the cell about the middle and beyond it with 

 a black tuft of hairs on the sixth interspace. The upper side of both wings is totally 

 devoid of all ocelli. The prevalent color is mouse-gray, the discal area of the fore 

 wings being black and velvety, this black area covering the end of the cell and the 

 origin of the submedian nervules, extending to the inner margin from near the outer 

 angle to within one-third of the distance from the base. The hind wings also are 

 black, or very dark brown, except on the outer and inner margins. Both wings have a 

 very fine black marginal line, paralleled inwardly by a similar fine submarginal 

 line, separated from the outer line by a space less than half a millimeter in diameter. 



