218 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



glandular jmtch of blackish lustreless scales. Underside pale oclireous-bro'wn, tinged 

 with yiolaoeous-brown externally. Both wings crossed by a straight discal narrow 

 dark brown line, which is externally bordered by a broad more or less violaceous- 

 white fascia ; submarginal sinuous line and marginal line dark brown. Foreiving 

 with a linear series of five prominent ocelli, the four upper being small and the lowest 

 large, the uppermost being situated between the subcostal and upper radial, and the 

 lowest between the middle and lower medians, each having a dark brown ring outside 

 the yellow iris ; sometimes a minute black dot, or incipient ocellus, is visible between 

 the lower median and the submedian vein ; posterior margin broadly nacreous-white 

 from the base to beyond the band and with an elongated dark hrown gla^idv.lar patch 

 on middle of the submedian vein. Hindwing with seven prominent ocelli, of which 

 the lower fifth is large, the others small, each outwardly ringed with brown. 



Female. Upperside paler and duller coloui'ed than in male ; the transverse pale 

 discal fascia of underside slightly visible, but broader; the marginal lines dark 

 brown. Forewing with the five, sometimes six, dusky ocelli of the underside in- 

 distinctly visible, each with a white pupil. Hindwing with the ocelli of the under- 

 side indistinctly visible, each with a white pupil. Underside paler than the upper- 

 side; the transverse discal line and violaceous-white fascia broad and prominent; 

 marginal lines dark brown. Foreiving with five, sometimes six, ocelli, of which 

 the lower fifth is the largest, and the lowest minute. Hindwing with seven ocelli ; 

 all the ocelli, on both wings, with a brown ring outside the yellow iris. Bodij 

 beneath, legs, and lateral streaks on palpi, jDale ochreous-brown. Antenna with 

 ochreous-yellow club, banded with black. 



Expanse, ^ 1|- to 2J, ? 2^ to 2f inches. 



Habitat. — Tenasserim. Malayana. 



Distribution. — A single example of the female (figured on our Plate 73, fig. 2b), 

 and now in Mr. F. D. Godman's Collection, was taken at Meetan, in Upper Tenas- 

 serim, by Ml'. A. 0. Hume. The type specimen of the male, figured by Hewitson, 

 is from Singapore, where it was collected by Mr. A. R. Wallace. Other males are 

 recorded by Mr. Distant (Rhop. Malay, pp. 416, 417) from Sungei Ujong, and 

 Perak, in the Malay Peninsula. It has also been taken in Sumatra, and Nias Island ; 

 and Mr. W. B. Pryer obtained it in Borneo. 



All the males of this species (including the Singapore type) have the large 

 rounded glandular patch of lustreless scales on the median area of the upperside of 

 the hindwing ; as is also the case in examples from Borneo, though this patch is 

 omitted to be described or figured by Mr. Distant (Rhop. Malay, p. 49, pi. 5, fig. 4) 

 in treating of M. Orf<eis. In some Boi-nean examples, tlie transverse fascia, on the 

 underside of both wings, is less palely violescent-white than in others. Of the 

 identity of the Hewitsonian M. Orseis with the M. Nautilus, I have satisfied myself 



