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Distribution. — Mr. G. F. Hampson (J. A. S. Beng. 1888, 348) obtained it ou 

 " tlie Nilgiris, from 5000 to 6000 feet, where it is confined to the forest on the edges 

 of the plateau." Examples have also been taken at Mettapalayam in Coimbatore. 



Habits. — According to Mr. Hampson (1. c. 348), " It has only the two wet- 

 season broods ; in May and August." 



The illustrations of this species on our Plate 71, figs. 1, la, b, c, represent the 

 male and female from the Nilgiris. 



TELINGA OCULTJS (Plate 71, figs. 2, 2a, b, c, ^ ? ). 



Mycdlesis oculus, Marshall, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, 1880, p. 247. 



Mycalesis {Telinga) oculus, Marshall and de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 124, pi. xvL fig. 53, 

 ? (1883). 



liiAGO. — Male. Upperside rich fei-ruginous-brown. Forewing darker brown 

 externally ; with an indistinct small subapical black spot with white pupil ; a very 

 large prominent lower black ocellus, with large white pupil, broadly surrounded 

 externally with bright ferruginous-red, which latter colour forms an irregular 

 discal patch extending from the posterior margin and is anteriorly prolonged 

 in front of the subapical spot to near the costa. Hindiving with four anteriorly 

 decreasing moderately small black ocelli with white pupils and darker ferruginous- 

 red outer rings. Cilia dark cinereous. Underside paler ferruginous-brown, more 

 ochraceous brown externally. Both wings with the basal area marked with short 

 dark ferruginous-brown strigge, and with a distinct darker brown transverse discal 

 line, which is widely ochreous bordered externally at its costal end on the forewing, 

 and narrowly with cinereous posteriorly on both wings. Forewing with a minute 

 subapical and a small lower median ocellus, and sometimes a white dot is also 

 present between the upper and middle median veins. Hindwing with six very small 

 ocelli, the four upper and the lowest being minute. 



Male with a subbasal tuft of brown hairs overlapping a small glandular patch of 

 blach scales on the upperside of hindwing, and on the underside of the forewing with 

 a large basal nacreous area with a very slight ordinary glandular patch of blackish 

 scales. 



Female larger. Upperside of somewhat brighter colours ; all the ocelli larger 

 and more prominent. Underside paler than in the male, the transverse discal line 

 on both wings broadly diffused externally with paler ochreous anteriorly and 

 cinereous posteriorly ; ocelli the same as in male. 



Body above dark brown ; abdomen beneath, legs, and streaks on sides of palpi 

 pale ochreous-brown. 



Expanse, c? 2i to 2|, ? 2f to 2| inches. 



Habitat. — South India. 



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