286 Mr. Roland Trimen on 



Mycalesis Eusirus. (p. 128) . 



Mycalrsis Eusirus, Hopffer, Monatsberichto cl. Koiiigl. 

 Akad. d. Wissenscli. zu Berlin, 1855, p. 641. 



Mycalesis Evenus. (p. 129) . 

 Mycalesis Evenus, HopfFer, loc. eit. 



Mycalesis Cappra. (p. 129). 



Mycalesis Ca/ffra, Wallengren, Lop. Rliop. Caffr., 

 p. 34, n. 2 ( 9 ) . 



In my work on South African Butterflies, I have given 

 these three, together with Mycalesis Gamhius, Doubleday, 

 and M. injusfa, Wallengren, as one species, regarding Eusi- 

 rus and Gajj'ra as specifically identical with Evenus. Under 

 M. Eusirus, Mr. Butler writes thus (p. 129) : — '' Mr. 

 Trimen, having received a single specimen of the variety 

 injusfa, has considered himself fully justified in sinking 

 the species Eusirus, which he places as a synonym of 

 the more recent Evenus; injusta does not, however, 

 link these species, nor do any connecting forms appear 

 to exist." As I think this gives an incorrect idea of 

 what I have published, I proceed to transcribe the pas- 

 sage {Rhop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 208) : — " There can be no 

 doubt that Hopffer's Eusirus is nothing more than a 

 strongly-marked example of the (J Evenus. Such was 

 my decided impression on merely comparing the excel- 

 lent figures in Peters' '' Reise ; " and a specimen of the 

 variety since received from Kaffraria entirely confirms 

 it. Variability in the size and number of the ocelli is a 

 character common to the greater part of the Satyridce, 

 and Mycalesis is no exception to the rule. In the speci- 

 men referred to, there is a further very minute ocellus 

 close to the termination of the pale streak. Wallengren's 

 M. injtista appears to be this variety, especially as he 

 notes its resemblance to Cramer's Jtistina, to which it 

 certainly seems very nearly allied. Cramer's figure, 

 however, gives hvo ziczac lines beneath, between ocelli 

 and the line parallel to hind-margin, and depicts no 

 stria3 in discoidal cell. He states the species to inhabit 

 Coromandel. 31. Cajjra, Wlgr., is very clearly a pale $ 

 of Evenus, only varying as regards the number and dis- 

 tinctness of the ocelli." 



