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imOPALOCKHA MA LA 1 'A XA. 



the same surrounding pale greyish line;* posterior wings with the second imd third small ocellated spots 

 of typical specimens totally absent (In the figure here given the seventh and smallest spot has been 

 omitted.) 



This variety I have received from Province Wellesley. 



Hab. — Continental India ; I Join hay u-olls. Moore & Dist.) ; Silhet ( Brit. Musj— Ceylon (coll. Moore). — 

 Andaman Islands (Calcutta Mus.) — Tenasserim (Limborg). — Malay I ninsnla; Penang; Province Wellesley 

 (coll. DistJ; Malacca (Brit. Mus. and coll. (indm. A' Salv.t — Suinatiu i Snellen).— Java leoll, Moore.). — China : 

 Hong Kong (colls. Moore and Brit. Mus.), 



I have compared the two specimens figured (Tub. IV. t figs. 13, 14) with the Limieaii 

 typical specimens in the possession of the Linnean Society of London, and have satisfied 

 myself as to their identity. This is a very variable species, but not more so than we might 

 expect, when we remember analogous cases of Satyrid variation in Europe. Even in England 

 UifffHuchia htjperanthux affords a good example, and an inspection of the figures of the six varieties 

 of that species, as given by ilr.Newman,! will convince any one of the little specific value afforded 

 by either the size or number of these ocellated spots in that species. Had a Malayan descriptive 

 entomologist been dealing with these British varieties, as occasionally received by him, there is 

 little doubt that some at least of them would have been described as distinct species, In my 

 opinion the operation has only been reversed with respect to J/* mineus, and this must frequently 

 occur with us all when describing unique specimens from abroad. It is uuly when many 

 specimens are accumulated that the strength of this varietal view of the value of ocellated spots 

 can be fully apprehended, as has been abundantly shown in the American genus EuptycMa by 

 Messrs, Godmaia and Salrin, J and as Mr. Darwin had taught us to expect. § Linnams himself 

 can also be adduced as a witness to the varietal character of his species. Dr. Aurivillius, of 

 Stockholm, has very kindly forwarded me a coloured copy of a figure in the unpublished 

 1 Icones ' of Clerck, below which, as Dr. Aurivillitra informs me, " Linne himself has written 

 1 84 Mhieus,' and which therefore may be relied on as typical." This figure apparently represents 

 an extreme variety (female), in which the ocellated spots of the underside of the wings are very 

 small, and the area in which they are placed very pale. 



5. Mycalesis blasius. (Tab. VII., fig, 7.) 



Papilio Masiux, Fabricius, Eat. Syst M Bttppl. p. 426, u. 4H8-18ft (1798). 



Myeatexi* lilariiu. ButL, Proo. Zool. Sue. I8fi7 t p. 720, fig. 4; Cat. Satyr, p. 137, u. 40 (1BG8) ; Cat. Fabr. 



Lep, p. 84, n. 10 (1869); Moore, Proc. Zool. Hoc. 1S78, p. 825. 

 Mycaf&tix (undo, Bull., Trans, Ent. Soc, 1879, p, 8. 



i ulififistni Blatim, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1880, p. 102 ; Lep. CeyL I p. 21, fc, xi. f. 2, 2a (1881}. 



Male. Wings above fuliginous- brown ; in some specimens the anterior wings have a small obscure 

 white -centred spot near basee of fourth and fifth subcostal nervules. Wings beneath fuliginous-brown ; 

 both wings crossed by a narrow, pale, whitish fascia, which passes a Utile beyond tlie apices of the discoidal 

 cells. Anterior wings with four submarginal ocellated spots, biack with white centres and ockraceous 



Mr, Muoro i.L<-p. Oyl. i. \\ ilfsfj-ibt-s u J ike varietal form an not uncommon in Ceylon, anil which is indicated 

 in his ligtiie, Plate XL, f. 4 b. 



f ' Brit-Ldh Butterflies,' p. U5. 1 Biol. Centr. Am. Ehon. p. 87- i ' Descent of Man/ ed. % p, 427 et *eq. 



