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margins paler, beariag two very fine brown lines. Cilia cinereous. Foreiring with 

 three very small (the posterior rather the largest) blind black ocelli, one each in the 

 two discoidal and upper median interspaces, each surrounded with a fine outer yellow 

 line ; a similar large ocellus in the same straight line as the other ocelli, and touching 

 the lowermost, in the first median interspace, which it slightly overlaps, centi'ed with 

 a minute silvery pupil. Hindwlng unmarked. Underside, both ivings ochreous- 

 yellow, the basal darker than the outer half; a prominent perfectly straight, discal 

 band, not quite reaching the costa of the forewing nor the abdominal margin 

 of the hindwing, this band is formed of an inner dark-brown line which becomes lost 

 in the ground-colour, outwardly sharply defined by a whitish line, which also soon 

 becomes lost in the ground-colour ; beyond this prominent discal band is a nebulous 

 band of a darker shade than the ground, and bearing in the forewing four, and 

 in the hindwing seven, pale blue most minute dots, one in each interspace, these 

 being the pupils of obsolete ocelli; a waved submarginal band." 



" Wet-Season Form. — Male. TJpperside, loth wings brown, the extreme oxiter 

 margins paler, bearing two wavy brown lines. Cilia cinereous. Foreioing with a 

 single round black ocellus in the first median interspace, beyond which it does not 

 extend, pupilled with white, with a narrow outer pale ring. Hindwing unmarked. 

 Underside, both ivings brown, the outer margin bearing two yellowish waved lines, 

 the disc crowned by a narrow perfectly straight pure white band which does not 

 quite reach the costa of the forewing nor the abdominal margin of the hindwing. 

 Forewing with four ocelli enclosed in a single outer yellowish line, the two upper 

 ocelli equal sized, the third the smallest, the fourth and lowest the largest. Eindioing 

 with seven ocelli, also enclosed by one line, of which the first (uppermost), the fourth 

 and the fifth are the largest, the third and the seventh equal sized and the smallest." 



Expanse, 2 inches. 



Habitat. — Upper Burma. 



" The dry-season form of M. mystes is easily recognizable by the curious 

 ochreous-yellow colour of the ground on the underside, but the wet-season form is so 

 precisely similar to many specimens of the same season form of M. (Calysisme) 

 mineus, that it might be easily confounded with that species. The male, however, 

 has the conspicuous tuft of black hair on the upperside of the hindwing, springing 

 from near the base of the submedian nervure, which is characteristic of this sub- 

 genus, and is not found in Calysisme, and by which it can be easily recognized. In 

 the subgenus Loesa, this taft is yellow not black, and springs from the middle 

 instead of near the base of the submedian nervure. The females of the wet-season 

 form of M. mystes will, probably, be diflicult to recognize, as in neuration and mark- 

 ings they will, probably, be found to be almost exactly like M. mineus." (de Nice- 

 ville, I. c.) 



