56 NYMPHAL1D.E. 



ocelli as in the wet-season form, only the ocelli are nearly obsolete 

 or minute. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen brown ; the 

 antennae ochraceous at apex. Male sex-mark in form 1. 



Exp. 6 2 48-64 mm. (1-9-2-5"). 



Hah. The Himalayas from Kulu to Sikhim ; Khasi Hills in 

 Assam ; the hills in Burma and Tenasserim. 



52. Mycalesis orseis, Hewitson, Ex. Butt, iii, 1864, p. 89, Mycalesis, 

 pi. 6, figs. 36, 37, <$ ; M. $ de N. Butt. Ind. i, 1883, p. 110 

 footnote ; Moore (Suralaya), Lep. Ind. i, 1890-92, p. 217, pi. 73, 

 figs. 2, 2a,2b, cJ$. 



6 . Upperside brownish purple ; fore and hind wings with pale 

 slender subterminal and terminal lines. Fore wing with the 

 ocelli of the underside showing through. Hind wing uniform 

 brown, medially glossed with dull purple. Underside : basal two- 

 thirds of fore and hind wings vandyke-brown crossed by a transverse 

 sinuous darker line ; outer third of wings much paler, a post- 

 median purplish transverse band diffuse outwardly, bearing a 

 series of white-centred fulvous-ringed black ocelli, five on the fore, 

 seven on the hind wing, the latter placed in a slight curve ; on 

 fore wing the posterior ocellus and on hind wing the third from 

 the tornus the largest ; beyond the ocelli subterminal zigzag and 

 terminal slightly sinuous slender dark lines. Sex-marks in form 2. 

 Female similar to the cf , but upperside somewhat dull vandyke- 

 brown ; underside paler than in the tf , with a broader transverse 

 purplish band ; fore wing with six ocelli. Antennae, head, thorax 

 and abdomen brown ; club of antennae ochraceous at apex, dark 

 brown below. 



Exp. <3 $ 55-58 mm. (2-19-2-3"). 



Hob. Recorded only from the Naga Hills and from Tenasserim 

 within our limits ; spread through the Malay Peninsula. 



The succeeding five or six forms belonging to Moore's genus 



C D 



Fig. 16. — Underside fore wings of Mycalesis, showing secondary sex-mark of 

 specialized scales. A. M. perseus, Fabr. B. M. mineus, Linn. 

 0. M. subdita, Moore. ~D. M. visala, Moore. 



Calysisme are very closely allied. M. perseus, I think, can always 

 be recognized in both sexes by the disposition of the ocelli on the 



