Male. Wins* above fidiRinous-bvown. Anterior winffs with a faint, pale, straight fascia, which nass.^s 

 a little beyond end of cell, and from which to outer margin the colour is slightly paler ; a black spot with 

 a white centre and a faint ochraeeous margin between first and second nu<lian nervules, and two 

 marginal fascoua lines, the innermost of which becomes faint and obsolete towards apex; fringe smoky 

 ochraeeous. Posterior whnjs with two distinct marginal lines, on each side of which the colour is dull 

 nchrai't-oiis (in ^une specimens a minute white-centred fuscous spnt lu-tweon second and third median 

 nervules). Wings beneath with the colour brighter and paler: both wings crossed by a narrow fascia, on 

 anterior wings passing somewhat beyond, and on posterior winga about end of cell ; anterior win^s with 

 two submarginal oeellated spots, which are black, with white centres and yellow margins, the first and 

 smallest situate on the discoidal nervules, and perfectly surrounded by a pale greyish line, the second 

 and largest placed on the second and third median nervules, with a pale surrounding greyish line, which 

 terminates inwardly on the transverse, white fascia (both these spots sometimes throw off a smaller one, 

 the upper one generally posteriorly and the lower one usually anteriorly, as shown in the female ngurc 

 la-re given i ; two pule greyish marginal lines, the inner one waved, and the fringe also pah greyish. 

 Posterior wings with seven submarginal oeellated spots of a similar pattern and colour to those on anterior 

 wings, of which the second and third are minute, the whole series being surrounded by a much waved pale 

 greyish fascia, which in some specimens tends to coalesce and perfectly surround the sixth and seventh 

 spots; two pale greyish marginal fasciie, the inner one most strongly waved, and the marginal fringe also 

 pale greyish. Body and legs coneolorons with wings. 



Male with a tuft of long pale hairs situate near costal base of posterior wings. 



Female. Larger than male: anterior wings above with the oeellated spot larger and brighter; 

 posterior wings above with two more obscure oeellated spots situate on the second and third median nervules 

 (there are sometimes indications of the commencement of a third spot between the third median nervule and 

 subraedian nervure\ Wings ln-neath as in male, but with all the spots and markings larger and brighter, 



Exp. wings, 3 42 to 45 millim. ; ? oO milliiu. 



Var. Mynrfraia crpltcux, Butl., Arm. A Mag. Nat. Hist. xx. p. 402, pL U, f. 3, 1 (1867); Cat. Satyr, 

 p. 184, n. 30 (1008)* 

 Myealm* Mmiua, var. Kirby, Syn. Cat. Diurn. Lep. pp. SH, 1)0, n. 20 (1871). 



t 'idtfsixittf CrjiUfHs, Moore, Trans. Ent. &oc- 1880, p, 168. 



Male. This variety differs on the underside of the anterior win^ in having an additional spot in front 

 of lower oeellated spot, and enclosed by the same pale greyish lim- ; nnd on the underside of tho posterior 

 wind's in having the. seeoud and third submarginal spots u little longer, which render the series apparently 

 a little more arched, as Butler describes.* 



This sptriun'ii w;ls collected in IVnany: by Lieut. Roberts. 



Var. b. (Tab. IV., fig, 7-1 



Male. Differs from typical specimens on the underside of the wings by the lower oeellated spot of the 

 anterior wing having a smaller one attached or non -attached to it beneath, but which is also enclosed by 



: 1 run possibly in agreement with Mr. Butler in estimating his ^f. cepJurtis as but a varietal form of miucux, as in 

 tiis "Tabular View of tin I !ut tor-Air* nf Mitlacea " i Trims. Linn. Sue, ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 564. 1877) he docs tint enumerate" 

 it. thrni<.'b bo includes others which were not collected by Capt. PiuwuX That writer correctly remarked iu bis description 

 tbnt it was allied to .M. mhwus, and I caiiuoi afiroo with Mr. Kirby in considering it as a variety of M. bla*iu*. Mr. Butler 

 has also included M. pohjtirela in bin Maliurcau *pecie». The form bo ban figured (Aim. & Ma". Nat. Hist. ser. \\, v. .J. \t. 

 pi. ix. f . 5 A; 6} t however, does not agree with Cramer's figure of that apeciea, and from an examination of the Mahiecan 

 Rpecimens thus identified in the British Museum t cortainly incline to the opinion that such are hut varieties of M. mitten*, 

 mid thai Ihe true V. ptilylcrta, Cram,, citmi^t it« •>i--b In ni prcm-nt included in this fauna. 



