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Subfamily Satyrin^. 



13. Mtcalesis ( Orsotrimnd) mandata, Moore. 



A very common species in the Western and Central Provinces 

 of Ceylon up to about 3,000 feet, in open spaces in forests and jungle. 

 It occurs also in Southern India. M. mandata is the wet-season and 

 M. mandosa, Butler, is the dry-season form of this species. Its transfor- 

 mations have been recorded, and like all the Indian Satyrinse its larva 

 feeds on rice and grasses. 



14. Mtcalesis (Calysisme) perseus, Fabricius. 



Like the last, this appears under two seasonal forms, a wet and a dry, 

 M. perseus being the latter, and M. blasius, Fabricius, the former, Moore 

 giving them as separate species in Lep. Cey., his pi. xi, figs. 2, 2a, male, 

 representing the wet-season form. It is a very common species up to 

 moderate elevations, and occurs almost throughout India, Burma, the 

 Malay Peninsula, Southern China, Hainan and Formosa Isles, and many 

 of the islands of the Malay Archipelago, extending to the Solomon group 

 in the Pacific Ocean. Moore describes it as having in the male on the 

 underside of the forewiiig a glandular patch of scales on the middle 

 of the submedian nervure small and black, and the hindwing having 

 on the upperside a tuft of radiating yellowish hairs arising within 

 the discoidal cell from behind the base of the subcostal nervure and 

 overlapping a glandular patch of black scales at the base of the first 

 subcostal nervule. The larva feeds on grass as usual. 



15. Mycalesis {Calysisme) polydecta, Cramer. 



This also has two distinct seasonal forms, M. polydecta being found in 

 the dry-season, M. justina, Cramer, in the wet. It is omitted by Moore 

 from his " Lepidoptera of Ceylon," but finds a place in his " Lepidoptera 

 Indica." He describes the male as having on the underside of the 

 forewing a small glandular patch of blackish scales on the middle of the 

 submedian nervure, and on the upperside of the hindwing having a 

 subbasal tuft of yellow hairs overlapping a glandular patch of blackish 

 scales. In so far there appears to be but little difference between 

 M. perseus, Fabricius, and M. polydecta, black and blackish, yellow and 

 yellowish. But he goes on to say that " Individuals of the dry-season 

 brood [it should be broods, as more than one brood of each seasonal form 

 occurs in the year] of C. polydecta are distinguishable from those of the 

 dry-season brood of C. perseus by the large pale-bordered ocellus on the 

 upperside of the forewing, and in the hindwing of both sexes having a 

 scalloped exterior margin, which latter is very prominent in most of the 



