io6 SOUTH-AFEICAX BUTTEEFLIES. 



ocelli on disc, in a series from near apex to close to anal angle, of which 

 the first, fourth, fifth, and sixth are of moderate size and the others 

 much smaller ; before and beyond these ocelli there is some more or 

 less developed brown clouding of the same character as that in fore-wing. 



$ Considerably larger, paler. Fore-wing : lower ocellus always 

 present, better defined ; in some examples, a minute third ocellus 

 immediately above the larger one. Under side. — Basal halves not 

 nearly so dark, and with the pcder outer halves tinged with ochreous- 

 yellow. Fore-wing : from one to three of the minute additional ocelli 

 always present ; streak across cell usually better marked. Hind-iving : 

 fifth ocellus rather markedly larger than the rest ; before middle, a 

 rather indistinct dark transverse stria, pale-edged interiorly. 



Var. a. {■$ and ^.—M. Fvcnus, Hops'.) 



Upper side as above described. Under side in both sexes with the 

 loiver ocellus of fore-wing smaller, and all the other ocelli very much 

 smaller, — in some specimens extremely minute ; with the common pale 

 streak less defined in the hind-wing, and with the brown clouding 

 beyond the streak almost obsolete except near large ocellus of fore- 

 wing ; the paler outer areas (and sometimes also the basal half of 

 hind- wing) more or less suff'used with violaceous-grey. 



The larger size, darker colour, more distinct and defined space of 

 yellowish near subapical ocellus of fore-wing, and total want of the 

 lower ocellus in the same wing, in Hewitson's figure of the upper side 

 of his Safltza, led me to dissociate from it the Eusirus of HopSer ; but 

 the figure of the under side of Safltza in Hewitson's Exotic Butter- 

 flies shows that the two forms cannot be kept apart, although the 

 latter gives a more defined apical pale space in fore-wing and con- 

 siderably larger ocelli (especially in hind- wing) than I have ever met 

 with in Hopffer's form. Dewitz (JVov. Act. Leop.-Carol.-Deutsch Akad. 

 Naturf., xli. p. 176, 1879) states that in the collection of the Berlin 

 Museum Eusirus is by Hopfier himself marked as synonymous with 

 Safltza. My identification of M. injusta, Wallengr., with the Eusirus 

 of Hopfier is confirmed by the examination of a typical specimen of 

 the former lent to me by the Royal Stockholm Museum, through the 

 kindness of Mr. P. 0. 0. Aurivillius. 



The Variety {31. Evenus, HopS!) is linked to Eusirus proper by 

 several specimens of both sexes from the Cape Colony and Natal, in 

 which all the ocelli of the hind-wing, though very small (or even 

 minute), are perfect and distinct. 31. Saga, Butl. (Cat. Sat. Brit. 

 3fus., p. 130, pi. iii. f. I, 1868), from Sierra Leone, is apparently very 

 close to the Evenus form, but the suppression of the ocelli extends even 

 to the lower ocellus of the fore-wing, which is quite minute. 



At Knysna, which I believe is the southern and western limit 01 

 3fycalesis in the Cape Colony, I found the Evenus form predominant, 

 specimens with well-developed under-side ocelli rarely occurring ; but 

 from Grahamstown eastward, and in Natal, the contrary appears to be 



