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verse discal band of the underside being slightly apparent. Underside generally 

 paler, sometimes of a cinerescent tint ; with a prominent transverse discal narrow 

 white band, which does not reach either the costa of forewing or the abdominal 

 margin of the hindwing, and a slender whitish submarginal and marginal wavy line. 

 Forewing with a subapical and a larger lower median black ocellus with white pupil 

 and ochreous ring, each also being again encircled by a narrow silvery-grey outer 

 ring. Hindiving with two contiguous upper-apical similar ocelli, of which the 

 anterior is the smallest, and a larger lower median ocellus, each also being again 

 encircled by a metallic silvery-grey outer ring; this latter ring, in some specimens, 

 encompassing both of the upper ocelli instead of there being a separate ring to each 

 of them. Body beneath and legs, paler ; sides of palpi whitish. 



Male, on the upperside of the forewing, with a tuft of fine long dusky hairs 

 arising from within the circular base of and overlapping, or enclosed within, a narrow 

 elongated glandular pouch or fold situated above the submedian vein ; and on the 

 upperside of the hindwing, with a tuft of delicate recumbent hairs situated above and 

 below the base of the median vein. 

 Expanse S If to 2, ¥ If to 2f inches. 



Dry-Season Brood (Plate 58, fig. 2, ? ). 

 Mycalesis Euneka, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. East India Compy. i. p. 234 (1857). 

 OrsotricBua Runeka, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1880, p. 160. 



Mycalesis (OreofczVewa) i??me/ia, Marshall & de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 112, pi. 16, fie. 

 56, S (1883). 



Imago. — Male and female. Upperside uniform dark umber-brown ; with pale 

 marginal lines, and slightly apparent transverse discal narrow band, as in wet-season 

 brood. Underside generally deeper coloured, and of a more ferruginous tint ; the 

 transverse discal narrow band more or less ochreous-white ; in some specimens the 

 band is defined only by a dark brown line with no visible white border; the ocelli of 

 both wings are small, rudimentary, pale brown with ochreous-white pupil ; sometimes 

 those of the hindwing are more developed ; in others the ocelli are obsolescent, being 

 defined only as darker brown spots with minute white pupil ; the outer margin, 

 especially of the hindwing, generally thickly irrorated with ochreous-grey scales. 

 Male with the tuft of hair and glandular pouch on the forewing, and the tufts on the 

 hindwing, as in the wet-season brood. 



Expanse 1| to 2f inches. 



Habitat. — N. -western. Central and Eastern India ; Sikkim ; iissam; Cachar; 

 Naga Hills ; Burma ; Nicobars ; Malayana. 



DiSTKiBUTiON. — This species has a very wide range beyond our limits. Within 

 our area, its extreme western range recorded is Umballa, where the wet-season 

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