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additional minute ocelli attached to them one on each side above and below, and 

 encompassed by the greyish line : hindwing with seven ocelli, the second, third, and 

 seventh, the smallest, all encircled by one greyish-white band. 

 Expanse If to 21 inches. 



Taken by Captain "Wade in bamboo-thickets in the Kottawah Forest. 



CALYSISME BLASmS (Plate 11, Fig. 2, 2a ^ ). 



Papilio Blasius, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. Suppl. p. 426 (1798). 



Mycalesis Blasius, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, p. 720, f. 4; id. Catal. Fabr. Lep. Brit. Mus. p. 34. 



Male and female. Upperside dark brown glossed with olive-brown : forewing 

 with or without a discal small white-pupilled black spot : underside dark uniform 

 vinous-brown, with a narrow purple-white discal band crossing both wings, and two 

 marginal lunular lines : forewing with four ocelli, the three upper ones small, all 

 encircled by a single purple band, some specimens having a small lower fifth ocellus, 

 which is also encompassed within the single purple band : hindwing with seven 

 ocelli, the second and third upper and the seventh the smallest, all being encircled by 

 a single purple band. 



Expanse 1 J to If inch. 



" Found at all times in the western and central provinces ; plains and up to 

 2000 feet, on grassy land. Flight short and slow, along edges of forest-paths and 

 grass land, settling on tufts of grass " {Hutchison). 



CALYSISME PERSEUS (Plate 12, Pig. 1, \a$). 



Papilio Perseus, Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 488 (1775), 5 . 



Mycalesis Perseus, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, p. 719, f. 2 ; id. Catal. Fabr. Lep. Brit. Mus. 

 p. 33. 



Male and female. Upperside brown : forewing with a transverse discal indis- 

 tinct darker line, a single ocellus near posterior angle varying in size from a small 

 white-pupilled black spot to a large spot with yellowish outer ring : hindwing with 

 one minute white-pupiUed black spot in male and two in female. Underside varying 

 greyish-brown, basal half darkest with indistinct darker strise ; a transverse discal 

 line with pale dentate marks, one on each vein ; a subbasal indistinct similar marked 

 line : forewing with four minute white-pupilled black spots, the two medial spots 

 sometimes obsolete : hindwing with a submarginal row of seven small white-pupilled 

 ocelli with yellow outer rings, the second, third, and fourth either minute or 



