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has the lower ocellus of primaries larger, but is otherwise very similar to some 
specimens of M. gotama, and is probably the Indian representative of this 
species. Mr. de Niceville, in referring to M. oculata and M. cliaraJca (Butt. 
Ind. i. p. 109), says: — " It seems probable that the two species, which occur 
in exactly the same locality, are really only one variable species." 
Distributed throughout Central and Southern Japan, and the whole of 
Northern and Western China. 
Mycalesis unica, sp. nov. (Plate II. fig. 9, $ .) 
Female. Fuliginous brown ; all the wings have a broad pale transverse central band ; there is one 
large pyriform ocellus on the primaries towards apex and one rather larger on the secondaries 
near anal angle ; there is also a minute ocellus towards outer angle of secondaries, and two 
very faint white dots between this and the large ocellus ; submarginal line of all the wings 
blackish, wavy, and bordered outwardly with pale yellowish on the secondaries. Under 
surface paler than above, with the central transverse band broadly yellowish white ; the ocellus 
of primaries has, besides the white pupil, a white dot at its lower edge (faintly seen on the 
upper surface) ; there is another white dot in the second median interspace and a small ocellus 
towards inner angle : on the secondaries there is a series of seven ocelli, but the third and 
fourth are indistinctly formed ; the fifth is identical with the ocellus on the iipper surface, 
but the iris is more distinctly yellow ; submarginal line as above, but broadly bordered out- 
wardly with whitish on all the wings. Fringes pale grey. 
Expanse 62 millim. 
This species is not closely allied to any Mycalesis that I am acquainted 
with, but in some respects it bears a superficial resemblance to M. suaveolens 
(Marsh. & de Nicev. Butt. Ind. i. p. 125) ; the larger size, however, of the 
latter and the ocellus near inner angle of primaries separate it at once from 
M. unica. 
One female example taken at Moupin in July. 
Mycalesis misenus. (Plate ii. fig. 10, var.) 
Mycalesis misenus, de Niceville^ Bomb. Nat. Hist. Journ. iv. p. 161^ pi. a. fig. 8^ ^ (1889). 
" Male and female. Upperside : both wings may be known from M. nicotia, Doubleday and 
Hewitson (this being the rains form, while M. langi, de Niceville, is the dry-season form of one 
species), by the ground-colour being darker ; the ocellus of the fore wing in the first median 
interspace almost invariably smaller. Underside : hoth ivings with the ground-colour fuscous 
instead of pale brown, the striation pale brown instead of ochreous. Male may be known by 
the ' scent-fan ' below the costa of the hind wing on the upperside being ochreous ; in both 
forms of M. nicotia it is deep black." (de Niceville, I. c.) 
In China 31. misenus is represented by a form which I describe as : — 
Var. Sericus, var. nov. (Plate II. fig. 10, S •) Differs from the type on the upper surface in having 
