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Dry-Season Bkood (Plate 57, fig. 2, 2a, S ). 

 Mycalesis Charala, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1874, p. 5G6. 

 Sadarga Charaka, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1880, p. 158. 



Mycales (Sadarga) Charaka, Marshall and de Niceviile, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 109 (1883). 

 Cahjsisme Peribcea, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1885, p. 301, ? (nee Fabr.). 



Imago. — Male and female. Upperside olivaceous-ochreous-brown, outer borders 

 palest, witli a dark submarginal and marginal lunular line. Foreioing with two very 

 prominent bright-coloured ocelli, the upper or subapical the smallest (and sometimes 

 bi-pupilled, consequent upon the fusion beneath of a minute ocellule), the second or 

 lower very large, fully a quarter of an inch in diameter, each with a distinct white 

 pupil and ochreous-yellow outer ring. Male above with a slight appressed tuft of 

 brown hairs overlapping the small glandular patch of scales on the middle of the sub- 

 median vein. Hindwing with a small indistinct ocellus between middle and lower 

 median veins ; a slight glandular tuft of ochreous hairs radiating from below base 

 of first subcostal over the swollen base of the second subcostal. Underside paler 

 ochreous-brown basally, cinereous-ochreous externally, divided by a neai'ly straight 

 transverse discal darker brown line ; two shorter brown subbasal zigzag lines on 

 f orewing, and one on the hindwing ; both wings with a slender blackish submarginal 

 sinuous line and a less defined marginal line, and a brown transverse shade passing 

 through the ocelli. Foreiving with a linear series of three, sometimes four, subapical 

 minute ocelli, and a small though larger lower ocellus between the medians, the 

 white pupil of the latter being large, hemispherical, and occupying nearly the whole 

 black area. Male beneath with a small glandular patch of dark-brown scales near 

 middle of the submedian vein. Hindwing with seven very small ocelh, the three 

 upper disposed in an outwardly oblique linear series, the fourth minute, fifth the 

 largest (though small), the sixth and seventh also minute. 



Expanse, (J If, ? 2 inches. 



Haeitat. — Silhet ; Cachar ; Naga Hills ; Upper Burma. 



This species is very similar in appearance to the Chinese species, 8. Gotama, 

 but may be distinguished fi'om the latter by the greater size of the ocelli on the 

 upperside of the forewings and the smaller size of those on the underside of both wings. 



Of the illustrations of this species on our Plate No. 57, figs. 1, la, b, c, are of 

 the male and female wet-season brood, and figs. 2, 2a, that of a male of the dry- 

 season form. 



Distribution. — This species is recorded from Silhet. It occurs in Cachar, and 

 the Naga Hills. Dr. G. Watt (Ann. Nat. Hist. 1885, 301) obtained a single female 

 of the dry-season brood on the border of Assam. According to Major C. H. E. 

 Adamson (List of Burmese Butterflies, 1889, p. 7) the dry-season form " was very 

 abundant at one spot in the Bhamo district in November." 



