SATYRIN^. 



105 



26. (1.) Mycalesis Safitza, Hewitson. 



$ Mijcalesis Safitza, Hewits., Gen. Diurn. Lep., p. 394, n. 10, pi. 66, f. 3 



(1851); Exot. Butt., iii. p. 80, pi. 40, f. 4 (1862). 

 ^ Mycalesis Eusirus, Hopff., " Moiiatsber. d. K. Akad. Wissensch., Eerl., 



1855, p. 641, n. 13 ;" and Peters' Reise n. Mossamb., Ins., p. 393, 



pi. 25, ff. 3, 4 (1862). 

 ^Mycalesis iiijusta, "VVallgrn., K. Sv. Vet.- Akad. Handl., 1857, Lep. Rhoii. 



Caffr., p. 33. 

 Var. a. $ and ? . 

 ; (J Mycalesis Evenus, Hopff., op. cit., " 1855, p. 641, n. 14;" and p. 394, 



pi. 25, ff. 5, 6 (1862). 

 $ Mycalesis caffra, Wallgrn., op. cit, 1857, p. 34. 

 cJ ^ Mycalesis Evejius, Tiim.., Ehop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 207, n. 120(1866). 



Ux2). al, {$) I in. 8-1 i lin. ; (^) i iu. 10 lin. — 2 in. i lin. 



$ Dark-bro'Lvn, tinged loith yclloiv-ochreous ; a common submarginal 

 darker line ; fore-wing with a small, black, white-pujpilled, suhapieal 

 ocellus, ringed with pale dull ochrey-yclloivish, and (i.isually) a larger, 

 similar, less distinct ocellus hctu'een first and second median nervides. Fore- 

 wing: beyond extremity of discoidal cell, an indistinct, rather suffused, 

 short, transverse, dull ochrey-yellowish streak ; subapical ocellus between 

 radial nervules ; between the two ocelli a more or less indistinct dull 

 pale-ochrey-yellowish suffusion ; lower ocellus sometimes very indistinct, 

 and almost as small as the upper one, — rarely quite obsolete ; a small 

 elongate sac touching lower edge of submedian nervure, about middle. 

 Hind-ioing : without markings ; along costa a smooth glistening grey- 

 ish-white space, wider nearer base, and on its lower edge, springing 

 from subcostal nervure close to base, a tuft of long whitish hairs, suc- 

 ceeded by a similar tuft of rather shorter fuscous hairs on second sub- 

 costal nervule. • Under side. — Based halves of wings dark-lroivn {darker 

 than upper side), sharply defined externally hy a thin, creamy-yellowish, 

 slightly -sinuate streak, from costa of fore-wing to inner margin (near 

 anal angle) of hind-iving ; outer halves very pale yellowish-brown, marked 

 with distinct white-pupilled black ocelli, with yellow iris encircled with 

 dark-brown ; an inner sharply-dentated and an outer slightly-sinuated 

 submarginal dark- brown streak common to both wings ; surface gener- 

 ally, but especially outer portion, with a more or less distinct violaceous 

 gloss. Fore-wing : across middle of discoidal cell a narrow pale-brown 

 streak with darker edges (often indistinct and sometimes obsolete) ; a 

 little before this streak an all but obsolete similar shorter one ; lower 

 ocellus large and conspicuous ; occasionally one or two minute (usually 

 imperfect) ocelli adjoining each of the two constant ocelli ; beyond the 

 pale streak bounding dark basal half, some more or less developed 

 brown clouding, which, uniting with the enlarged lower portion of the 

 inner submarginal streak, forms an almost complete ring about (but at 

 some little space from) the larger ocellus ; a rather wide inner-marginal 

 space, from base to beyond middle, shining-silvery, marked with the 

 same little sac that is seen on the upper side. Hind-iving : seven 



