SATYRID/E MYCALESIS. 



fifth largest ; all black with white pupils and rufous irides bordered with white. 

 Posterior wing with a marginal band of white traversed by a line of brown ; the outer 

 margin brown. 



Female (fig. 52) like the male, except that the anterior wings are much broader, 

 and of a uniform rufous-brown ; that the underside is more clouded with brown ; and 

 that the anterior wing has a zigzag line outside of the ocelli. 



Expan. Ij^o i"ch. Hab. Old Calabar. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 



The male of this species has more resemblance in form to the genus Hj'pocista than it has to 

 Mycalesis. 



MYCALESIS SANAOS. 53, 54. 



IIppERSiDE. Male, uniform dark hlac brown. 



Underside dark lilac brown, paler towards the outer margins. Both wings with 

 the margin and two submarginal lines of dark brown. Anterior wing with two oceUi ; 

 posterior wing with seven, the fifth larger than the rest ; all black with white pupils 

 and rufous irides bordered with dark brown, and again with lilac. 



Female hke the male, except that it is rufous-brown on both sides ; that the 

 anterior wing has on the uppcrside a space of })aler colour beyond the middle on 

 which are two blind ocelli ; that the inner submarginal band on the underside of 

 the anterior wing is zigzag ; and that there are three or four imperfect minute ocelli 

 on the same wing. 



Expan. s IJ, ? l-^u inch. Hab. Old Calabar. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 



MYCALESIS SCIATHIS. 55, 50. 



Upperside. Male, rufous-brown slightly tinted with lilac. Anterior wing with 

 one apical ocellus. 



Underside rufous. Both wings crossed by a narrow brown band before the 

 middle, by a second tortuous band at the middle bordered outwardly with lilac ; both 

 with the outer margin and two submarginal lines of brown. Anterior wing with two 

 ocelli; posterior wing with four, two of which are small, one of them indistinct. 



Female like the male, except that the anterior wing on the upperside is crossed 

 beyond the middle by a short oblique band of wliite, and that the central band on the 

 underside is margined outwardly with white. 



Expan. i li§, s 1-^-^^ inch. Old Calabar. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 



