58 nymphalid^e. 



that on the underside of the fore wing small (about 2 mm. long) and 

 black. 



Exp. J 2 42-54 mm. (1-68-2-1"). 



Hab. I have examined specimens from the Himalayas, Kangra 

 to Sikhhn and Bhutan ; from Bengal, Southern India and Ceylon. 

 This form is fairly common throughout Burma and Tenasserim ; it 

 extends to China and far into the Malayan Subregion. 



54. Mycalesis milieus (PI. II, fig. 8, wet-season form — underside), 



Linn. (Papilio) Syst. Nat. i, 1767, p. 768 ; M. fy de N. Butt. Intl. 



i, 1883, p. 117, pt. ; Moore (Calysisme), Lep. Ind. i, 1890-92, 



p. 183, pi. 60, figs. 1, 1 fl-1/, tf$. 

 Papilio drusia, otrea, et mamerta, Cramer, Pap. Exot. i, 1775, pi. 84, 



figs. C, D, 2 5 iv, 1780, pi. 314, figs. A, B, & pi. 326, fig. D, $ . 

 Calysisme suhfasciata, Moore, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 237, pi. 12, fig. 8 ; 



M. £ de N. (Mycalesis, var. of mineus) Butt. Ind. i, 1883, p. 122. 

 Calysisme nicobarica, Moore, Lep. Ind. i, 1891, p. 187. 



Race polydecta. (PI. II, fig. 9, dry-season form — underside.) 



Papilio polydecta, Cramer, Pap. Exot. ii, 1777, pi. 144, figs. E, F, 2 ; 



Moore (Calysisme), Lep. Ind. i, 1890-92, pp. 180, 181, pi. 61, 



figs. 1, 1 a-\ h, & pi. 62, figs. 1, 1 a-1 i, 6 2- 

 Papilio justina, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv, 1780, pi. 326, fig. C, 2 • 

 Calvsisme drusia, perseus, et mineus, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. i, 1880, p. 20, 



pi. 11, figs. 3, 3 a, 6 ; p. 21, pi. 12, figs. 1, 1 a, <$ ; & p. 22, pi. 11, 



figs. 4, 4a, 46, 6 2- 



Wet-season form. — <$ 2 • Upper side dark vandyke-brown ; fore 

 and hind wings with slender subterminal and terminal pale lines. 

 Pore wing with a single white-centred, fulvous-ringed, black ocellus, 

 generally set in a square pale area, in interspace 2, occasionally a 

 similar smaller ocellus without any pale surrounding area in 

 interspace 5. Hind wing uniform, sometimes with one or two 

 obscure postmedian ocelli. Underside : ground-colour similar ; 

 fore and hind wings crossed by a transverse dusky-white discal 

 band, well-defined inwardly, diffuse outwardly, followed by a post- 

 discal series of ocelli surrounded by a dusky-yellowish, sometimes 

 purplish-white, line ; the ocelli are similar to the ocelli on the 

 upperside, and vary from two to four on the fore and from five 

 to seven (the preapical two being sometimes obsolescent) on the 

 hind wing ; of these latter the posterior four, not three as in 

 M. perseus, are in a straight line; finally, beyond the rows of ocelli 

 on both wings there are pale or purplish-white subterminal and 

 terminal sinuous lines. 



Dry-season form. — <$ 2 • Upperside similar to that in the wet- 

 season form, but paler. Underside from ochraceous brown to 

 dusky brown of a darker shade ; basal half of the wings conspi- 

 cuously darker than the outer portions ; the whole surface irro- 

 rated with fine brown striae ; sometimes a distinct dark discal band 

 crosses both wings ; ocelli nearly obsolete, indicated by minute 

 white specks, the posterior four on the hind wing in a straight line 

 as in the wet-season form. Antenna?, head, thorax and abdomen 

 brown ; the club of the antennae with black and ochraceous marks. 



