452 MR. L. DE NlciVILLE ON NEW OR [May 3, 



larger. — Female. Upperside : both icings much j^aler than in the 

 male. Fore iving slightly more truncate than in the male, with the 

 ^^hole apical thiid of the wing ochnous, on which is placed a round 

 black spot with a wliite centre in the second median interspace, with 

 one small obsolete ocellus in the intersjiace below and three above it. 

 Hind wing with the outer margin paler, a round black spot with a 

 white centre in the first median inter!^pace. Underside : both 

 wings with the gro\md-colour pale purplish, thickly striated with 

 brown. Fore wing with an obscure ochreous i'ascia before the middle 

 of the wing, a more prominent discal one from just beyond the 

 middle of the costa directed towards the anal angle, wliicli it does 

 not reach ; the ocelli as in the male, but rather larger, the outer 

 margin broadly ochreous. Hind wing with an outwardly curved 

 discal ochreous fascia, its outer margin sharply defined ; the ocelli as 

 in the male ; the outer margin broadly ochreous. Cilia throughout 

 blackish in both sexes. 



Dry-season form. 



E.rpanse. S 3'3, 5 3'2 to 3'3 inches. 



Male. Upperside : both ivings deeper black than in the rains 

 form, the outer margins ashy. Fore icing highly falcate ; with a 

 large rich ochreous, inwardly almost ferruginous, patch, wide at the 

 costa, narrowed to a point at the first median nervule, outwardly 

 banded by the ashy marginal area, and just extending into the apex 

 of the cell. Hind wing unmarked, the tail much longer than in the 

 rains form. Underside very dark, very irregularly striated ; all 

 the ocelli obsolete. Fore wing with a large wedge-shaped subapical 

 pale violet patch, behind wliich are three obscure straight fasciae 

 compo-ed of pale mottles. Hind wing with the basal half of the 

 wing much darker than the outer half, and sharply defined, 

 a patch of ochreous mottles at the end of the cell. The general 

 character of the markings of the underside is similar to that of 

 M. duryodana, Felder, and as they show but little variation in a 

 long series of specimens, 1 have described them somewhat minutely. 

 — Female. Upperside : both jcings much paler than in the n.ale, 

 and somewhat purplish, with no distinct outer ashy maigin. F^ore 

 wing even more falcate than in the male, enorn onsly more so than 

 in the corresponding sex of the rains fcrm. 'l^ie apical two thirds 

 rich ochreous, extending well into the disccidal cell, and reaching 

 the anal angle, enclosing spots as in the female of the rains form, 

 but which, however, so far as the two lower ones are concerned, are 

 vaiiable in size, in one specimen having their black portions much 

 lengthened inwardly ; the outer margin just motthd with ashy. 

 Hind icing vihh the outer margin narrowly mottled with fcriuginous 

 and ashy, a small submarginal white dot in the first mecUan inter- 

 space (sometimes present in the male), sometimes with another 

 smaller one in the interspace above. Underside ; both wings with 

 all the ocelli obsolete and much paler than in the male, being fer- 

 ruginous-ochreous, fairly evenly covered with blotches of dark brown 

 irrorations ; the fasciae as in the fern; le of the rains form, but blackish 



