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white discal band on the wings seen by transmission from the 

 underside narrow and very obscure. Underside', basal areas of 

 wings up to the discal white band dark brown in the S , ochraceous 

 brown in the $ ; the discal white band very narrow and 

 ochraceous white ; the terminal margins beyond purpurescent ; 

 ocelli minute ; both fore and hind wings irrorated with short, 

 transverse, brown striae. 



Exp. S $ 50-56 mm. (1-95-2-2"). 



Hah. Sikhim ; Assam, the Naga and Khasi Hills ; hills of 

 Burma and Tenasserim. 



Bace lepcha, Moore. — g $ . The North-West Himalayan and 

 Southern Indian race of M. malsara, closely resembling it in both 

 the wet- and dry-season forms. It differs in having the transverse 

 discal band crossing both wings very much narrower and not 

 showing through at all on the upperside ; the ocelli are very much 

 smaller and more obsolescent. Underside in the dry-season form 

 irrorated as in M. malsara with short, transverse, dark brown striae. 



Exp. S 2 56-58 mm. (2-2-2-28"). 



Hab, The Himalayas, Kulu, Kangra, Mussoorie ; varieties 

 differing slightly from the typical form are also found in the 

 Central Provinces and the Anaimalai Hills, and have been named 

 bethami and davisoni respectively, by Moore. 



65. Mycalesis nicotia, Hewitson, in Dblday., Westw. § Hew. Gen. Di. 

 Lep. 1851, p. 394, pi. 66, fig. 4 $ ; M. $ de N. Butt. Ind. i, 1883, 

 p. 129 ; Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, p. 306, pi. ix, fig. 5 $ ; 

 Moore (Samanta), Lep. Ind. i, 1890-92, p. 206, pi. 69, figs. 1, 



Mycalesis langi, de Niceville, in M. 8f de N. Butt. Ind. i, 1883, p. 130. 



Wet-season form. — S $. Upperside vandyke-brown. Fore wing 

 with one very large, white-centred, fulvous-ringed median, and 

 one, more rarely two, similar smaller subapical ocelli. Hind 

 wing with one or two small similar ocelli. Fore and hind wings 

 with subterminal and terminal pale lines. Underside pale brown, 

 much paler in $ than in <S ; the basal area of the wings irrorated 

 with transverse brown striae up to a common transverse inwardly 

 sharply-defined discal white band ; beyond this, a series of ocelli 

 similar to the ocelli on the upperside, four on the front wing, the 

 median ocellus being the largest, seven on the hind wing, the 

 third from the tornus and the apical ocelli being the largest ; 

 terminal margins of wings slightly purpurescent, crossed by an 

 inner and an outer subterminal and a terminal slender dark brown 

 line, the subterminal lines being more or less zigzag and sinuous. 

 Cilia of both fore and hind wing pale. Antennae, head, thorax 

 and abdomen brown; antennae ochraceous at apex. Male sex- 

 mark in form 2, the tuft of hair overlying the specialized scales on 

 the upperside of the hind wing black. 



Dry-season form. — <$ $ . Similar. Differs in the ground-colour 

 of the underside having a more ochraceous tint, the ocelli much 



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