JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL. 



Vol. LXIII. Part II.— NATURAL SCIENCE. 

 No. I.— 1894. 



I. — On new or little-known Butterflies from the Indo-Malayan region. — ■ 

 By Lionel de Nice'ville, F. E. S., C. M. Z. S., &c. 



(With Plates I, II, III, IV and V.) 



[Received February 10th 5— Eead March 7th, 1894.] 



Family NYMPHALID^. 



Subfamily Satyrin^e. 



1. Mtcalesis (Satoa) maia, n. sp., Plate I, Figs. 1, c? ; 2, $ . 



Habitat : Battak Mountains, N.-E. Sumatra. 



Expanse : (?, 1*8 to 1'9 ; $ , 2-1 inches. 



Description : Male. Upperside, both wings black, glossed with 

 vinous in some lights ; a narrow waved marginal line. Forewing with 

 the costa, apex broadly, and outer margin decreasingly paler ; a small 

 black white-pupilled ocellus in the anterior discoidal interspace, 

 sometimes with a smaller ocellus attached to it posteriorly; a large 

 round black spot in the first median interspace, outwardly bounded by a 

 pale line. Hindiving with a broad whitish patch on the costa at the base 

 of the wing ; the outer margin narrowly pale. Underside, both loings 

 fuscous; the outer margin bears a narrow waved black line, then a 

 waved narrow ochreous (in some specimens violet) line, then a nearly 

 straight ochreous (or violet) line, the extreme margin nari'owly black. 

 Forewing with the apex washed with ochreous ; a subapical black ocellus, 

 sometimes with a second smaller one attached to it posteriorly, and a 

 J. II. 1 



