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minute, and all encompassed by the pale outer constricted line, as in the male ; very 

 rarely a specimen of the female occurs in which the three ocelli only are present, and 

 more rarely still with the upper and lower only. Hindiving with the seven ocelli 

 as in the male. Body dark brown, sides of the palpi cinereous. 

 Expanse If to 1| inch. 



Dey-Season Brood (Plate 59, fig. 2, 2a, S 2b, c, d, e, ? ). 



Pajnlio Perseus, Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 488 (1775), ? . Donovan, Ins. of New Holl. pi. 26, fig. 3 



(1805). 

 Mycalesis Perseus, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, p. 719, fig. 2; Catal. Satyr. Brit. Mus. p. 133 



(1868) ; Catal. Fabr. Lap. Brit. MvlS. p. 33 (1869). 

 Calysisme Perseus, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1880, p. 163 ; P. Z. S. 1882, p. 237 ; Journ. Linn. 



Soc. Lond. Zool. 1886. p. 32. 

 Mycalesis (Calysisme) Pe'fseus (part), Marshall and de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 120, 



(1883). Doherty, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 114. 

 Papilio Tahitha, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. III. i. p. 243 (1793). 

 Satyrus Zopyrus, Kollar, Hiigel's Keise Kaschmir, iv. pt. 2, p. 450 (18J4),(J. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark olivescent ochreous-brown ; the outer margins, and 

 cilia cinereous-brown. Forewing with the transverse discal band blackish, but in- 

 distinct ; a small black median ocellus with white pupil but no outer yellowish ring. 

 Eindwing with one, sometimes two, minute blackish subanal spots, the upper of 

 which is between the middle and lower medians and is sometimes white pupilled ; a 

 sub-basal radiating tuft of yellow hairs overlapping a small glandular patch of black 

 scales. Underside various shades of violescent greyish-brown, speckled with darker 

 brown, the basal area darkest, the transverse sub-basal and discal line more or less 

 indistinctly defined, the latter sometimes slightly pale bordered externally, the discal 

 line on both wings also having a small black inner point and a pale yellow outer 

 point on each vein ; a more or less indicated submarginal series of slender points or 

 denticules. Foreiuing with four minute more or less distinctly defined submarginal 

 white-pupilled blackish spots ; and a small glandular patch of black scales on middle 

 of the submedian nacreous area. Eindwing with seven very small black spots with 

 white pupil, or sometimes with more or less developed small ocelli, of which the 

 upper one and the three lower are generally the most distinct or more developed. 



Female. Larger than the male. Upperside. Foreicing generally with the 

 transverse discal line more defined, the median ocellus somewhat larger, and some- 

 times a minute subapical ocellus is present. Eindwing as in male. Underside of 

 similar colour, and brown speckled, as in male ; the transverse discal line with points 

 on each vein ; the minute ocelli or dots the same. 



Expanse c? If to If, ? If to 2^ inches. 



Habit.\t. — Northern, Eastern, Central and Southern India ; Ceylon ; Burma ; 

 Malayaua. 



