54 NYMPHALlD^l. 



48. Mycalesis adamsoni, Watson, Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. x, 1896. 

 p. 640., pi. A, fig. 1 2- 



3 . Upperside very dark brown ; fore and hind wings with 

 subterminal and terminal pale lines. Fore wing with the termen 

 anteriorly broadly but very obscurely paler, the colour extended 

 obliquely to the costa above the apex, the ocelli of the underside 

 showing very faintly through. Hind wing uniform. Underside : 

 basal two-thirds of both fore and hind wings very dark brown, the 

 outer margin of this colour sharply denned, on fore wing slightly 

 oblique from costa to vein 4, thence vertical and sinnous to 

 dorsum ; beyond this an obscure broad lilac transverse band, 

 carrying on the fore wing a white-centred, fulvous-ringed, small, 

 black median ocellus and four smaller anterior ocelli, the apical 

 and lower of these mere minute dots ; on the hind wing a curved 

 series of seven similar ocelli, the third from the tornus the 

 largest, the rest subequal. Termen of wings beyond the line 

 of ocelli slightly ochraceous, with subterminal and terminal dark 

 lines. Antennas, head, thorax and abdomen dark brown. Male 

 sex-mark in form 1. — 2 . Very similar; apical and terminal area of 

 fore wing on the upperside distinctly paler, a preapical short white 

 band, not so oblique as in M. anoxias, but curving downwards 

 vertically. Another 2 resembles the $ precisely, having no white 

 preapical band. 



Exp. tf 2 54-58 mm. (2-13-2-3"). 



Hab. Upper Burma. 



49. Mycalesis anaxioides, Marshall, in M. fy de N. Butt. hid. i, 1883, 

 p. 107 ; Moore (Samundra), Lep. Ind. i, 1890-92, p. 162, pl.*55, 

 figs. 3,8a, tf$. 



S 2 • Upperside vandyke-brown, darkest on the disc of {the 

 fore wing; a broad preapical, oblique, slightly arched white 

 band as in M. anaxias, and a terminal dark line on both fore and 

 hind wing. In the $ there is also a large black white-pupilled 

 fulvescent-ringed ocellus below the terminal or lower end of the 

 white band, and on the hind wing traces of another ocellus near 

 the tornus. Underside : ground-colour similar to that in M. anaxias, 

 with a dark basal and terminal paler area, the latter bearing in 

 the wet-season form a series of ocelli on both fore and hind wing, 

 four on the fore, seven on the hind wing. In the dry-season form 

 the ocelli are nearly obsolete, represented by mere black dots, and 

 the outer paler border more clearly demarcated, of a lilacine white 

 suffused with brown ; outer margin of the preapical white band on 

 the fore wing diffuse. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen dull 

 brown, paler beneath ; the antennae somewhat ochraceous. Male 

 sex-mark in form 1. 



Exp. <? 2 58-70 mm. (2-3-2-78"). 



Hab. Lower Burma ; Tenasserim. 



