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tuft of hairs overlapping a small glandular patch of black scales. On the forewing 

 beneath is a small ordinary glandular patch of black scales above the submedian 

 vein. Underside brighter brown. Both wings with the basal area indistinctly 

 striated with darker brown, a transverse discal narrow violet-grey band, and greyish- 

 ochreous marginal lines. Forewing with three small prominent subapical ocelli, and 

 a moderately-large lower median ocellus, both sets encompassed by a pale violet- 

 grey outer line. Hindwing with seven prominent ocelli, the second, third, sixth, 

 and seventh the smallest. Female as in male, except in the absence of the tuft, 

 dilated median veins, and glandular patches. Body beneath, legs, and sides of palpi 

 pale ochreous-brown. 



Expanse, Ig- to 2^ inclies. 



Dry-Season Brood (Plate 72, fig. 1, b, ^). 

 Mycalesis Khasiana, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1874, p. 566. 

 Kabanda Khasiana, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1880, p. 168. 

 Mycalesis (Kabanda) Khasiana, Marshall and de Nicfeyille, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 127 (1883). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark umber-brown, paler at the apex and along the 

 exterior border; marginal lines also paler. Subbasal tuft and dilated median 

 branches, and glandular patches, as in wet-season brood. Underside bright vinous- 

 brown basally, and violet-grey along exterior border. Both wings numerously 

 covered with minute dark brown strigse ; transverse discal violet-grey band very 

 narrow, and a distinct yellowish, narrow marginal line. Forewmg with five, and 

 hindwing with seven minute perfect ocelli. 



Expanse, 1| inch. 



Habitat. — Khasia Hills, Oherra Punji, Sibsagar, Silhet, Cachar, Naga Hills. 



Seasonal Variation.— Mr. L. de Nict^ville (J. A. S. Bengal, 188S, 273), says : 

 " Through the kindness of the Rev. W. A. Hamilton I have recently received from 

 Silhet twelve males and two females of this species, all captured within a short 

 period of one another. As regards the upperside they show no variation. Tlie species 

 is a remarkable one, having no ocelli whatever above. The undersides, however, 

 of these fourteen specimens (selected for me from a very considerable number 

 purposely to show these variations) exhibit a perfect gradation, from a specimen with 

 a single ocellus only (and that most minute, in the first median interspace of the 

 hindwing, all the other ocelli being reduced to minute dots) to another with the 

 ocelli as large as shown in Mr. Butler's figure. In addition to this ocellular 

 variation, we have, concomitantly, quite as great a diversity in the ground colour. 

 In the form with the obsolete ocelli, the basal two-thirds of the wings are ochreous- 

 brown, and the outer third, with the abdominal margin of the hindwing, is purplish- 

 grey. In the form with all the ocelli large and perfect, we have the whole of the 



